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.
Fields of science
- agricultural sciencesanimal and dairy sciencedairy
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- medical and health sciencesbasic medicinepharmacology and pharmacypharmaceutical drugsantibiotics
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- natural scienceschemical sciencesanalytical chemistrymass spectrometry
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinator
6229 GS Maastricht
Netherlands
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