Nombre del autor:Santiago Mendoza

This Prize is intended to award the companies that have been recognized for their support to research, innovation or knowledge transfer in Aragón. Pilar Alegría, Innovation Advisor, Research and University of the Aragon Government, was responsible for awarding the private sector granting the prize to Zeulab. Luis Mata, our Technical Director received the award at the Caixaforum building in Zaragoza. In his speech, Luis Mata, thanked the recognition and remarked the award is “a boost to our company is self-steem”. He also remarked the experience of the company with 24 years of life, highlighting of its staff (10 PhDs, 14 graduates or with masters degrees of a total of 40 workers.) From the start, Zeulab has collaborated with public research centres. As a result, we have been able to accelerate the development and market-placing of our new products. Zeulab has collaborated with public research centres in the development of most of its 30 projects. Zeulab also has participated in 28 scientific publications (6 of them in 2018), more than 80% of them in collaboration with others public researching groups. Thanks to this effort, from the beginning of our activity at Zeulab we have developed more than 50 innovative products commercialized in 40 countries around the world, providing differential elements in the market making than unique or with novel technical features.

At Zeulab we think that cooperation, solidarity and development must be the three pillars in our business philosophy. For this reason, for years, we have been collaborating with different NGOs transmitting our commitment to eradicate the inequalities and mobilize consciousness as well. This year, the cooperation will take place with Action Against Hunger; NGOs that works fighting again the consequences and causes of malnutrition in over 40 countries. More than 5,000 humanitarian professionals share a vision: a world without hunger. The vision of AAH is a world without hunger, because we are the first generation that can achieve this; moreover its goal is to save lives by erasing hunger through prevention, detection and treatment of malnutrition. In addition, since 2012 they also work in Spain on issues of entrepreneurship and employability. Everything collected through this collaboration campaign will go to the general activity of Action Against Hunger, and its projects to combat child malnutrition, water and sanitation and income generation in more than 50 developing countries. WATER: We aim to guarantee access to water and basic sanitation, which are both necessary for the life and development of communities SANITATION: When faced with health risks, our aim focuses on reducing diseases related to poor water, hygiene and sanitation conditions HYGIENE: Hygiene promotion is related to improved quality of life through awareness-raising campaigns NUTRITION: Good nutrition is the foundation of human well-being and will contribute to improving problems associated with poverty, health, education, gender differences and employment. HEALTH: We treat the conditions linked to malnutrition and prevent nutritional deterioration that could lead to illness. FOOD SECURITY: The availability, access and consumption of nutritional food guarantees food security. LIVELIHOOD: Our livelihood interventions aim to guarantee people’s dignity without having to depend on external aid. From Zeulab we have been working and developing tests for the detection of antibiotics for many years and we know how important their correct use is. The detection of antibiotics as well as avoiding the abusive use of them can prevent serious harm of food, for both human and animal. It should be noted that from the scientific and medical world is being denounced the risk posed to people and animals by the increasing inefficiency of some of the main antibiotics due to the development of antibiotics in the bacteria that cause the diseases. So much so that the World Health Organization (WHO) considers this problem among the three most serious health risks that humanity must be fancing in the coming decades. Our line of antibiotic detection allows the detection of inhibitory substances in various foods and matrices (milk, meat, liver, kidney, eggs or feed). The test is based on the inhibition of microbial growth and allows simple and rapid differentiation of samples containing antimicrobial residues above the detection limits of the test. In the framework of our collaboration with Action Against Hunger, our commitment will be to donate part of the sales of the product lines for the detection of antibiotics: Explorer, Equinox, Eclipse and also e-Reader, thus combating our efforts to combat all situations of hunger that exist. If you are interested in collaborating with Action Against Hunger, you can get in touch directly with the NGO or consult all intervention options on their website.