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Handheld Molecular Contaminant Screener

Project description

Testing food before it’s too late

A series of food safety incidents in the late 1990s – from melamine-contaminated powdered infant formula to dangerous eggs laced with insecticide – drew attention to the need to establish general principles and requirements concerning food and feed law at EU level. But current screening methods are lab-based and take so long that food is already in the processing stage or in the supermarkets. The EU-funded HMCS project will develop real-time detection of risk-related substance using handheld molecular contaminant screener based on a novel portable mass spectrometry technology. HMCS enables food companies to test food or food products for contaminants before collecting food from the farms and at various stages of the food value chain.

Call for proposal

H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020

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Sub call

H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1

Coordinator

NEXT GENERATION SENSORS BV
Net EU contribution
€ 50 000,00
Address
Gaetano Martinolaan 85
6229 GS Maastricht
Netherlands

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Region
Limburg (NL) Zuid-Limburg
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
Other funding
€ 21 429,00