In an act at the plant that the French company Danone has in Longchamps, the president Alberto Fernandez led this Thursday the launch of a line of yogurts that will be produced on site and whose probiotic formula was developed by Conicet, on which occasion the President said “the importance of investing in science and technology, because they guarantee the development of societies”.
“The State must take care of nurturing children,” said Fernández, referring to the importance of these foods in child development, along with, leading the act accompanied by the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Daniel Filmus; the president of the Conicet, Ana Franchi; the CEO and senior vice president of Danone Cono Sur, Juan Garibaldi; the Minister of Social Development, Victoria Tolosa Paz, municipal authorities of Almirante Brown and representatives of the French Embassy.
“It is an important day for everyone. Many times a large part of Argentines think that science and technology is something intended for very studious people and we do not know how it materializes in daily life. But the development of science and technology is which guarantees the development and prosperity of societies”, said Fernández at Longchamps.
Accompanied by Filmus, the President said that “eating is not the same as feeding oneself” and pointed out that “this is not an issue that can be solved with the market, but that the State should take care of nurturing children.”
“The best investment that the State can make is the one it makes in education, knowledge and technology because one invests in the future”, remarked the President, who During a section of the tour of the plant, he wore the white clothing worn by the workers in that place. In another section of his speech, Fernández took the example that the National Soccer Team that won the last world championship that was played in Qatar and assured that the team “He showed that you have to keep your convictions high and that’s why it went well for him.”
“Although many overwhelm you with their criticism, you have to summon the best and make them work as a team because that gives enormous strength to any project. That is the lesson that the team led by (technical director Lionel) Scaloni left us and I feel that we are doing that a bit here,” Fernandez pointed out.
He also stated that “the richest societies are those that develop knowledge, science and technology”, that “it is what the world needs”, and illustrated that Norway and Finland “have a formidable quality of life with this scientific and technological development” and are “the happiest societies in the world”.
In this sense, he fought for “Argentina is not the granary of the world but called to develop science and technology, to add value to primary products” that industrializes, “to give Argentina a better quality of life” and “also to the world when the time comes to export”.
For its part, Filmus stated that it felt a “double pride, as a CONICET researcher and as a government that has placed science and technology and the articulation of the public and private spheres in a central place.”
“There are those who believe that investment in science is superfluous but there is no country in the world that has developed if it is not based on science and technology. Science is invested to solve people’s problems, not for researchers”, referred to the minister.
Likewise, he stressed that “it is not common for so much to have been invested in science and technology” and noted that “a few days ago it was reported about the destination of 106 million dollars for CONICET and science equipment”, in addition to “works with sense federal that are taking place”.
The official points out that these projects also allow “generating our own scientific sovereignty and generating this virtuous circuit between private companies and the State.” He also warned that “without science and technology there is no development, there is no future, there is no sovereignty”, and he maintained that “our possibilities of developing ourselves as a people, our possibility of having the Argentina that all our children and our young people deserve to depend on good measure of decisions such as those made by President Alberto Fernández, which is to invest in science and technology”.
The new strain created by Conicet: CRL1505
The launch is part of the license agreement between the public body and the company Danone Argentina, which as part of the agreement will test yogurts for public welfare institutions with social purposes. The new strain of probiotics is Lactobacillus rhamnosus CRL1505, developed at the Conicet headquarters in Tucumán.
As explained, this strain is capable of “stimulating the immune system, increasing the local and systemic immune response, thus optimizing the natural defenses when preventing or dealing with respiratory and intestinal infections caused by viruses and bacteria”, so ” contribute to an improvement in the quality of life of the population. The strain is part of the culture collection that Cerela is based in Tucumán, and is a national and international benchmark in the study of lactic acid bacteria, as well as a pioneer in technology transfer. It will be highlighted that both the Conicet and the province of Tucumán will obtain royalties on the sale of the new yogurts.
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