Objective Diseases transmitted through foods have become a global problem as food is increasingly imported from many counties with different standards of food production and processing. Such diseases constitute major social and economic burdens on public health and have significant implications for international trade. The industrialised trading regions, like the European Union (EU) and the United States of America (US), have a responsibility for encouraging and enabling improved food safety by contributing state-of-art knowledge and standards. To ensure that such information is harmonised, communication and collaboration between food safety research scientists are essential. In the EU a Network of Excellence, MED-VET-NET, has recently been established to provide a virtual institute for research on zoonoses, including food borne diseases within Europe. A similar structure, FS-CAP, is currently being established for the US by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Both networks have remits to deliver the scientific expertise, knowledge and response capacity to support and advise governmental policy. Such networks can, therefore, provide the infrastructures for transatlantic collaboration. This proposal aims to develop a structured transatlantic alliance on food safety, by establishing a joint food-borne zoonoses network, called EU-US-SAFE-FOOD, for research into all aspects of microbiological food safety within the total food chain but particularly in the pre-harvest phase of production. The generation of such an international network will complement, and significantly add value to, the current skills and expertises of European food safety scientists by ensuring and enhancing a global perspective of food borne disease issues and by providing the opportunities to acquire, contribute to and disseminate the state-of-art knowledge. Fields of science engineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesfood technologyfood safetyagricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturemedical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic healthepidemiologyzoonosissocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementcommerce Keywords Food Safety network pre-harvest transatlantic Programme(s) FP6-FOOD - Food Quality and Safety: Thematic priority 5 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) FOOD-9 - Specific Support Actions Call for proposal FP6-2003-FOOD-2-A See other projects for this call Funding Scheme SSA - Specific Support Action Coordinator THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS EU contribution No data Address 17 Smiths Square LONDON United Kingdom See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all AGENCE FRANCAISE DE SECURITE SANITAIRE DES ALIMENTS France EU contribution No data Address Avenue du general - Leclerc 27 - 31 MAISONS - ALFORT See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data DANISH INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND VETERINARY RESEARCH Denmark EU contribution No data Address Bulowsvej 27 COPENHAGEN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ID-LELYSTAD, INSTITUUT VOOR DIERHOUDERJ EN DIERGEZONDHEID B.V. Netherlands EU contribution No data Address Edelhertweg 15 LELYSTAD See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID Spain EU contribution No data Address Avda Puerta de Hierro, S/N MADRID See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SOCIETY FOR APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address The Blore Tower, The Harpur Centre BEDFORD See on map Total cost No data VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE Czechia EU contribution No data Address Hudcova 70 BRNO See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data NATIONAL FOOD INSTITUTE, TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK Denmark EU contribution No data Address Anker Engelunds Vej 1 KGS. LYNGBY See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
