Description du projet
Les smartphones au service de la sécurité alimentaire
Les méthodes actuelles d’analyse de la qualité et de la sécurité des aliments sont coûteuses, prennent du temps et ne permettent pas de garantir la sécurité alimentaire pour tous les consommateurs tout en prévenant les fraudes généralisées. Il est possible d’inverser cette tendance. Le projet FoodSmartphone, financé par l’UE, exploitera des outils de détection et de diagnostic (bio)analytiques basés sur un smartphone afin de simplifier l’examen préliminaire rapide effectué sur place des paramètres de qualité et de sécurité des aliments. Adoptant une approche globale, le projet réunira des experts de divers domaines tels que la chimie (bio)analytique, la biologie, la physique, la micro-ingénierie, les mathématiques et la chimie alimentaire. Il vise également à impliquer le public et à sensibiliser aux questions scientifiques par le biais d’activités d’information. Pour garantir un impact à grande échelle, FoodSmartphone diffusera ses conclusions auprès des principales parties prenantes.
Objectif
Current food quality and safety testing is, to a large extent, an inefficient, expensive and ineffective process, unable to assure food safety for all consumers and unable to prevent major food fraud incidents. A paradigm shift in quality and safety testing is urgently required in order to free resources for an intensified combat against fraud in the food chain. As an enabling technology solution, the FoodSmartphone ETN proposes the development of smartphone-based (bio)analytical sensing and diagnostics tools for simplified on-site rapid pre-screening of food quality and safety parameters and wireless data transfer to servers of relevant stakeholders. FoodSmartphone comprises 7 Training Sites (3 universities, 3 research centres, 1 innovation SME), plus 5 Partner Organisations (1 global food industry, 1 diagnostics SME and 3 universities awarding doctoral degrees). The consortium has been built upon highly complementary disciplines: (bio)analytical chemists, biologists, physicists, micro-engineers, mathematicians and food chemists will work together on the joint supra-disciplinary goal. FoodSmartphone provides a unique mix of exciting local PhD research covering all aspects of smartphone-based screening tools plus a wealth of network-wide science & innovation and transferable skills training: the ETN provides more than 14 network-wide and transferable skills training events and 16 optional- and 11 mandatory intersectoral secondment opportunities. The ETN and results thereof will be widely disseminated to key stakeholders, embedded in continuous education programs and translated into a final exploitation plan. Scientific awareness of the next generation and public engagement will be boosted by several well-targeted outreach activities. The scientific training in novel smartphone-based sensing technologies plus the complementary skills training provided will have a major impact on future EU monitoring practices and, moreover, pave the road for Citizen Science approaches to food quality and safety testing.
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsbiosensors
- engineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesmicrotechnologylab on a chip
- engineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesfood technologyfood safety
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsmobile phones
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
Programme(s)
Régime de financement
MSCA-ITN-ETN - European Training NetworksCoordinateur
6708 PB Wageningen
Pays-Bas