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DIgital TEChnologies as an enabler for a conTinuous transformation of food safety system

Project description

New cloud-enabled storage system to predict food safety

The contamination of food is a worldwide concern for public health and a cause of international trade problems. Researchers and industrial and food authorities representing the agro-food industry in the EU and China will work together to develop an integrated framework for real-time detection, assessment and mitigation of biological, chemical and environmental contaminants throughout the food supply chain. This collaboration is part of the EU-funded DiTECT project, which will develop a standards-based, modular, Big Data-enabled platform capable of accurately predicting food safety parameters of a given food product based on data collected in real time via cost-efficient sensors relevant to crop, grain storage, livestock and, finally, in the food supply, incorporating blockchain processes. The project’s service will be demonstrated in four real-world pilots with the active engagement of 21 EU Member States.

Objective

"""DiTECT will develop an integrated framework for real-time detection, assessment, and mitigation of biological, chemical and environmental contaminants throughout the food supply chain. Bringing together research, industrial and food authority partners representing the agro-food industry in the EU and China, DiTECT aspires to establish the foundation for future food safety monitoring platforms, through the development of a standards-based, modular, Big Data-enabled platform, capable of accurately predicting food safety parameters of a given food product based on data collected in real-time via cost-efficient sensors, at crop, grain storage, livestock and finally in the food supply, incorporating blockchain processes. DiTECT integrates multidisciplinary research teams from fields such as microbial and spectroscopic fingerprinting technologies; emerging ICT-based food tracing systems; signal analysis and data mining. Microbial profiling will be attained via conventional microbiological analyses in tandem with advanced molecular methods (e.g. NGS-based metagenomics), while spectroscopic profiling will be based on spectral data generated using appropriate rapid, non-invasive methods and sensor devices. DiTECT recognizes that current food-chains are lacking a complete snapshot view of food safety at the crop/livestock and finished product levels, and so foresees the development of a cloud-enabled storage system for all data corresponding to different insights of product-specific safety aspects, to be integrated into. The novel food safety services will be demonstrated in four (4) real-world Pilots with the active engagement of 21 EU and 13 CN partners, using real datasets to validate efficiency improvements. The carefully structured work plan embodies a “multi-actor” approach to prototype and validates a ready-for-take-up framework of significant exploitation potential for the agro-food industry.""

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RIA - Research and Innovation action

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) H2020-SFS-2018-2020

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Coordinator

GEOPONIKO PANEPISTIMION ATHINON
Net EU contribution
€ 787 500,00
Address
IERA ODOS 75
118 55 ATHINA
Greece
Region
Αττική Aττική Κεντρικός Τομέας Αθηνών
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Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Total cost
€ 787 500,00

Participants (34)