Obiettivo
VEG-i-TRADE provides platforms to identify impacts of anticipated climate change and globalisation on food safety, microbiological and chemical hazards, of fresh produce and derived food products. Control measures of managerial and technological nature will be developed in the supply chain of crop production, post-harvest processing and logistics to minimize food safety risks. The assessment of the performance of horticultural safety management systems by a novel diagnostic instrument at EU level exemplified by several countries in Europe and tailored on a global level including major EU trade partners from various climate zones will lead to recommendations on European and global level on quality assurance and the setting of science-based performance objectives. VEG-i-TRADE will pro-actively invest in problem solving technologies for safe produce investigating aspects of water quality and water treatment, horticultural production practices, disinfection treatment and packaging technologies. These control measures will be exploited in collaboration with SMEs and industrial partners. Baseline studies on the hazards, intervention technologies and best practices in the fresh produce chain will provide input for both microbial and chemical risk assessment to elaborate support to risk-based sampling plans, evaluate the risks of newly identified threats as affected by the global trade system and anticipated climate change. The project output will craft a discussion forum for stakeholders in the global food chain reflecting on issues of acceptable risk, sustainability of fresh produce production and long term strategy of international food trade, while making no compromise in food safety for European consumers and in respectation of food sovereignty. Risk communication to increase awareness of trade partners’ production systems and the uneven consumer behaviour will provide key conditions for prioritisation of risk management strategies.
Campo scientifico
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic zones
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrology
- engineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesfood technologyfood safety
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- social sciencessociologyglobalization
Invito a presentare proposte
FP7-KBBE-2009-3
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
CP-IP-SICA - Large-scale integrating project for specific cooperation actions dedicated to international cooperation partner countries(SICA)Coordinatore
9000 Gent
Belgio
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0033 OSLO
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1433 AS
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28006 Madrid
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6708 PB Wageningen
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1433 As
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8500 KORTRIJK
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0579 Oslo
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90046900 Porto Alegre
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8800 RUMBEKE-BEITEM
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0001 Pretoria
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0002 Pretoria
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AIN EL SOKHNA SUEZ
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9520 SINT LIEVENS HOUTEM
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2321 HOOGSTRATEN MEER
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1602 Vlezenbeek
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0509 Oslo
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04640 PULPI
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1025 Saint Sulpice
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641003 Coimbatore
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31320 Milagro
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30169 SAN GINES
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11080 Belgrade
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9300 AALST
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8800 Roeselare
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