Objective
The project aims to improve the safety and quality of 3 categories of ready-to-eat foods: ready-to-eat fresh fruits and vegetables, fluid foods, and ready-to-eat cooked foods. In order to enhance the safety of the 3 types of foods, and at the same time prevent the heat-induced chemical-physical and nutritional changes, non-thermal processes will be developed. Concerning ready-to-eat fresh fruits and vegetables, procedures based on photosensitization will be set up in order to drastically reduce the contamination level of naturally occurring and inoculated pathogenic species in vegetable raw materials and packaging. Concerning fluid foods, Pulsed Electric Fields technologies and High Pressure Homogenization will be compared both in terms of pathogenic species inactivation and changes of the properties of proteins as well as food microstructure and rheology. The ability of the latter technology to activate naturally occurring or exogenous enzymes will be exploited in order to generate new bioactive food components. Concerning ready-to-eat meals, low level of hydrostatic pressure to meals packaged under CO2 atmosphere will be applied in comparison and in addition to traditional heat processes. For each technology, modelling of the death kinetics of naturally occurring microbial population and deliberately inoculated pathogenic species and their evolution during storage, will be performed in order to obtain inactivation probabilistic models that will be the basis of quantitative risk assessment procedures. The results of the risk assessment will allow the definition of the lethality levels required for the species of interest and of the exposure doses of the various processes as a function of the desired shelf-life and quality level. For the various combinations products-processes also the meal formulation optimisation will be performed in relation to chemical, nutritional, microstructural and functional changes induced by the exposure...
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- agricultural sciences animal and dairy science dairy
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture horticulture fruit growing
- natural sciences physical sciences classical mechanics fluid mechanics fluid statics
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture horticulture vegetable growing
- social sciences economics and business business and management commerce
You need to log in or register to use this function
Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Topic(s)
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Call for proposal
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
FP6-2004-FOOD-3-B
See other projects for this call
Funding Scheme
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Coordinator
BOLOGNA
Italy
The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.