Objective The rearing of healthy European livestock is highly dependent on the provision of high quality and safe feeds. This in turn has a major impact on the safety of the entire animal based food chain. The concept of Q-SAFFE is to deliver better, faster and economically viable means of ensuring the quality and safety of animal feeds in Europe. The Q-SAFFE consortium is composed of academics and government scientists with substantial experience in animal feed research along with industrial companies, large and small, dedicated to supplying and producing higher quality and safer animal feeds. Together, their vision is an integrated approach to the reduction and management of chemical and microbiological contamination in animal feeds. This research project will provide better ways of preventing contamination and fraud, identifying and assessing new risks and providing scientific evidence of the risks of transfer of microbiological and chemical contaminants from feed to food.Strategies for early quality and safety assurance in the feed chain will be developed using existing testing methods and emerging technologies such as fingerprinting to deliver a comprehensive analytical strategy for monitoring at ports, feedmills and labs. The traceability and authenticity of feed materials will be improved by determining which tests, conventional and fingerprinting, will be most useful in tracing origins of feed materials including those derived from biofuel co-products. Emerging chemical and microbiological risks will be identified from new types and sources of animal feed materials and new production processes. These will direct the development of rapid, low cost screening tests to enable high quality and safety standards to be met. The transfer of chemical contaminants such as melamine and dioxins and micro-organisms (Salmonella spp, Listeria monocytogenes) from feed to food will be studied using pharmacokinetic models and animal studies to provide risk assessments for regulators. Fields of science natural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiologyengineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybiomaterialsbiofuelsagricultural sciencesanimal and dairy sciencedomestic animalsanimal husbandryanimal feed Programme(s) FP7-KBBE - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology Topic(s) KBBE.2010.2.4-03 - Quality and safety aspects of feed - Call: FP7-KBBE-2010-4 Call for proposal FP7-KBBE-2010-4 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST EU contribution € 585 040,00 Address UNIVERSITY ROAD LANYON BUILDING BT7 1NN Belfast United Kingdom See on map Region Northern Ireland Northern Ireland Belfast Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Joyce Watterson (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (10) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all BUNDESINSTITUT FUER RISIKOBEWERTUNG Germany EU contribution € 276 800,00 Address MAX DOHRN STRASSE 8-10 10589 Berlin See on map Region Berlin Berlin Berlin Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Tanja Burgdorf (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data VYSOKA SKOLA CHEMICKO-TECHNOLOGICKA V PRAZE Czechia EU contribution € 321 200,00 Address TECHNICKA 5 166 28 Praha See on map Region Česko Praha Hlavní město Praha Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Anna Mittnerova (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data CENTRE WALLON DE RECHERCHES AGRONOMIQUES Belgium EU contribution € 320 400,00 Address RUE DE LIROUX 9 5030 Gembloux See on map Region Région wallonne Prov. 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