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[REPORT SUMMARY] Analysis of consumer behaviour and private quality management for fresh meat and implications for marketing and management
The analysis undertaken covers in detail:
- Consumers meat purchasing and consumption behaviour;
- Consumers perceptions und expectations towards meat quality attributes;
- Causes for a decline in meat consumption;
- The structure of the meat supply chain;
- Existing meat qua...
Programme: FP4-FAIR
Record Number: 23187
Last updated on: 2004-04-02
[REPORT SUMMARY] Procedure to measure chilling injury in tomatoes
Chilling injury is a disorder which develops in tomatoes and other fruits under low temperature storage conditions (but above freezing temperatures). The critical temperature below which injury occurs may range from just above the freezing point of the tissue to 10-12°C. Chill...
Programme: FP4-FAIR
Record Number: 23214
Last updated on: 1999-10-12
Near Infra Red (NIR) spectroscopy provides a tool to rapidly predict, in a non-destructive way, texture and taste attributes of agro-food products with emphasis on tomatoes and apples. To do so, samples of a tomato or apple variety, varying in texture and taste attributes, are...
Programme: FP4-FAIR
Record Number: 23215
Last updated on: 1999-10-12
A procedure has been developed to generate mealy fruits. It can be used as a tool to generate fruits of different degrees of mealiness for research purposes, or as an accelerated procedure to evaluate the mealiness of a batch of fruits. A destructive method has been developed ...
Programme: FP4-FAIR
Record Number: 23213
Last updated on: 1999-10-12
Trained panels are available to assess quality attributes of apples (IFR, IATA, ATO), peaches (IATA) and tomatoes (IFR). These panels are available for assessing fruit quality, as a reference for developing new measurement methods for quality attributes of these fruits accordi...
Programme: FP4-FAIR
Record Number: 23216
Last updated on: 1999-10-12
[REPORT SUMMARY] Analysis of private and public quality policy and implications for EU policy to meeting consumers needs
The investigation and analysis of the private and public quality policy in the partner countries together with the results of the consumer survey gives information useful for policy makers and other people involved in the area of food standards and quality schemes, in particul...
Programme: FP4-FAIR
Record Number: 23188
Last updated on: 2004-04-02
[REPORT SUMMARY] Quality policy and consumer behaviour
The project combines consumers' expectations regarding food quality with organizational and institutional efforts for quality management in the industry trade. The project is devoted mainly to the fresh meat sector. Six academic contractors in Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, S...
Programme: FP4-FAIR
Record Number: 21355
Last updated on: 2004-04-02
[REPORT SUMMARY] Foods for health promotion: consumer expectations/acceptance
The project enhances understanding and achievement of short-term and long-term consumer acceptance of commercial food products which can specifically contribute to meeting current dietary goals. The focus is on consumer and food characteristics associated with the selection, c...
Programme: FP4-FAIR
Record Number: 21360
Last updated on: 1998-09-23
[PROJECT] PREPELASMO - Preparation of a proposal for stock assessment of some elasmobranch fishes in european waters.
ID: FAIR984156
Start date: 1998-12-01, End date: 1999-11-30
The main objective of this concerted action is to organise two meetings of three days each in order to formulate a new research proposal, which describes the steps required to obtain and compile the data with which to carry out stock assessments of a limited number of elasmobr...
Programme: FP4-FAIR
Record Number: 48216
Last updated on: 2001-03-26
[PROJECT] EFAN - European fish ageing network
ID: FAIR961304
Start date: 1996-12-01, End date: 2000-11-30
To develop a competent network of laboratories with the capacity to develop, conduct and coordinate collaborative research and training, and thereby ensure that age determination becomes a reliable element of the assessments underlying the scientific management advice on fishe...
Programme: FP4-FAIR
Record Number: 36101
Last updated on: 2001-03-26
List retrieved on: 2017-08-04
