Action Plan National Program 306 Product Quality and New Uses (including biorefining) 2020–2024

The Action Plan National Program 306 Product Quality and New Uses (including biorefining) 2020–2024 is a national sectoral action plan of the United States of America. Its main mission is to conduct research that develops more healthful, value-added foods; results in enhanced biobased products including biofuels; and reduces loss and waste through commercially preferred technologies for postharvest processing, packaging, and storage.
More specifically, it aims for developing technologies that improve food quality, extend product shelf life, reduce food waste, promote health, and reduce food costs; define, measure, and preserve/enhance/reduce factors that impact quality and marketability; research new bioactive ingredients and health-promoting foods; maintain/enhance fiber and hide quality; enable technologies to produce new and expand marketable nonfood, nonfuel biobased products derived from agricultural feedstocks; viable technologies for producing advanced biofuels (including biodiesel), or other marketable biobased products; technologies that reduce risks and increase profitability in existing industrial biorefineries; and accurately estimate the economic value of biochemical, thermolysis conversion technologies.