Queen’s University Belfast is to establish a dedicated research facility to investigate a new technology with the potential to fight antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
The Centre for Plasma in Agri-Food (AgriPlas) will be the first of its kind in Europe and will be located within the Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) at Queen’s.
Its focus will not only be pioneering research into cold plasma – ionised gases or liquids that have antimicrobial properties – but also the potential commercial applications.
AgriPlas will work closely with the Northern Ireland, UK and European agri-food industry on a number of projects to explore the use of plasma technology in, for example, veterinary treatments, prolonging the shelf life of agri-food products and farm biosecurity.
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