Traceability of the swine value chain: SMEs independence from famous trademarks (P2P)

Objective

The high costs of European food production may be faced only 1) by large enterprises and brands able to use highly automatized production processes or 2) by quality products with high added value produced by small niche of enterprises. A wide adoption of reliable traceability systems also in small companies belonging to the agri.food sector and the improvement of the citizens' trust versus the capability to quickly identify contaminated product batches along the whole value chain contribute to avoid the following risks:- crisis of a whole national and international agri-food value chain due to a news about possible contamination of some foods;- loss of trust of the consumers for products coming from small producers' chains, due 1) to lack of capacity of demonstrating the traceability of the products and 2) to actions of large competitors interested in increasing their market quote.

The main objective of the P2P project is to develop methodologies and tools supporting the quick collection of information from different traceability systems so that citizens and public officers can easily access to such information in a unified approach. Industrial Associations play an important role setting-up service centres on which converges on real time all the traceability information. The main tools of the service centres are:- a methodology to assure collection of information from companies;- an Internet based and an open source software tool tailored on SMEs and easily supporting collection, archiving and sharing of information and documents often from already existing information system of the company. The P2P project faces the traceability of the swine value chain. The decision rises from many considerations: e.g. high number of SMEs involved, many international relations, low value of the single animal, variety of transformation processes ensure that the experience and the results developed will be profitably used also in other agri-food sectors.

Field of science

• /humanities/history and archaeology/history
• /social sciences/economics and business/economics/production economics

Programme(s)

• FP6-SME - Horizontal research activities involving SMEs: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Topic(s)

• SME-2 - Collective Research (all areas of science and technology)

Call for proposal

FP6-2002-SME-2
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Funding Scheme

Collective - SMEs-Collective research projects

Coordinator

CONFEDERAZIONE NAZIONALE DELL'ARTIGIANATO E DELLA PICCOLA IMPRESA, ASSOCIAZIONE PROVINCIALE DI MODENA

Address

Via Malavolti 27
Modena
Italy

Participants (21)

ASOCIACION TXERRIZALEOK

Spain

Address

Plaza Simon Labayen S/n
Albiztur

AZIENDA UNITA SANITARIA LOCALE DI MODENA

Italy

Address

Via S. Giovanni Del Cantone, 23
Modena

BIOTECO S.R.L

Italy

Address

Viale Italia 11/13/15
Mirandola

CENTRO RICERCHE PRODUZIONI ANIMALI - CRPA S.P.A

Italy

Address

Corso Giuseppe Garibaldi, 42
Reggio Emilia

CONFCOOPERATIVE UNIONE PROVINCIALE DI MODENA

Italy

Address

Via Emilia Ovest, 101
Modena

DEMOCENTER - CENTRO SERVIZI PER L'INNOVAZIONE S.C.A.R.L.

Italy

Address

Viale Virgilio 55
Modena

EUROCENTRO DE CARNES S.A.

Spain

Address

Ctra. Vega Del Puente S/n
La Puebla De Montalban

FLEISCHERINNUNG DELMENHORST / OLDENBURG-LAND

Germany

Address

Large Strasse 25
Delmenhorst

HERMANOS CHICO GALINDO S.A.

Spain

Address

C/ Leon S/n
Aranda De Duero

INKOA SISTEMAS, S.L

Spain

Address

Barakaldo Elkartegia. C/ El Carmen, 38
Barakaldo (Bizkaia)

INNOPOLE, S.L.

Spain

Address

Avda Paris 10, Urb El Valle
Cobisa Toledo

INSTITUT FUR ANGEWANDTE SYSTEMTECHNIK BREMEN GMBH

Germany

Address

Wiener Strasse 1,
Bremen

L. RICHELDI S.P.A.

Italy

Address

Via Per Castelnuovo Rangone N.200
Portile (Modena)

LEGA PROVINCIALE DELLE COOPERATIVE E MUTUE

Italy

Address

Via Fabriani, 120
Modena

LUTZ LEHNACKER GMBH

Germany

Address

Lange Str. 25
Delmenhorst

MIBA S COOP

Spain

Address

C/ Carretera A Etxebarria S/n
Markina

MOROTTI GIAN LUIGI

Italy

Address

Via Liberta, 5
Vignola (Modena)

MULLER'S WURST DIELE GUT NUTZHORN

Germany

Address

Irisweg 1
Ganderkesee

ORSZAGOS HUSIPARI KUTATOINTEZET KOZHASZNU TARSASAG

Hungary

Address

Gubacsi Ut. 6/B
Budapest

SZAMITASTECHNIKAI ES AUTOMATIZALASI KUTATO INTEZET

Hungary

Address

H - 1111 Kende U. 13-17
Budapest

VAGOALLAT -ES HUS TERMEKTANACS

Hungary

Address

Gubacsi Ut 6/B
Budapest