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Barlactica is the research and consulting company
of Barbara Hart.
Barbara is food technologist and has a large interest in gastronomy. Organic
agriculture, local production and 'real food' are important to her.
After her graduation as food technologist, specialized in dairy technology, at
Wageningen University, Barbara worked more than 10 years for large and small
food producing companies. She worked as researcher, technologist and R&D
manager. She is experienced in dairy technology, especially in the processing of
goat milk.
Since 2007 Barbara
is an independent technological and gastronomic researcher and consultant. She
works for producers and traders in food products. As a freelancer she does
various projects like product development, scientific literature reviews,
process improvement.
Barlactica is coordinator of
FACEnetwork, the
European network of farmhouse and artisan cheese & dairy producers. In FACEnetwork 20 producer organisations from 19 countries join their forces. Barbara is
also head of the working group 'technology' of FACE and was technical coordinator of the
Teacheesy project. In this Erasmus+ project,
tools were build to support the introduction and implementation of the
European Guide for Good Hygiene Practises for farmhouse
and artisan cheese and dairy production.
Barbara is member of the Slow Food Network of Food Professionals in the Netherlands.
Furthermore she has been on the committees of various organizations active in the
field of dairy, (goat) farming and quality.
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