Project description
Taking microbial and chemical hazards off your baby’s menu
Other than breast milk, infant formulas and baby foods are the most important part of a baby’s diet in the first year of life. This makes identification, assessment, detection and mitigation of microbial and chemical hazards along the infant food chain a top priority. The EU-funded SAFFI project will develop procedures to enhance top-down and bottom-up hazard control by combining management options. To improve risk-based food safety management of biohazards through omics and predictive microbiology, it will use predictive toxicology. SAFFI will also co-develop a decision support system to enhance safety controls along the food chain. Focusing on the EU and China, the project will also set up training and knowledge transfer activities to foster harmonisation of good practices.
Objective
SAFFI targets food for EU’s 15 million and China’s 45 million children under the age of three. It aims at developing an integrated approach to enhance the identification, assessment, detection and mitigation of safety risks raised by microbial and chemical hazards all along EU and China infant food chains. SAFFI will benchmark the main safety risks through an extensive hazard identification system based on multiple data sources and a risk ranking procedure. It will also develop procedures to enhance top-down and bottom-up hazard control by combining management options with a panel of technologies for the detection and mitigation of priority hazards. SAFFI will discover unexpected contaminants by predictive toxicology and improve risk-based food safety management of biohazards by omics and predictive microbiology. SAFFI will co-develop with and deliver to stakeholders a decision-support system (DSS) to enhance safety control all along the food chain. This DSS will integrate the databases, procedures and methods described above and will be a framework for a generic DSS dedicated to other food. This overall methodology will be implemented in two complementary European and Chinese mirror projects and exemplified for each, with four case studies that were selected to cover priority hazards, main ingredients, processes and control steps of the infant food chain. Resulting databases, tools and procedures will be shared, cross-validated, concatenated, benchmarked and finally harmonized for further use in the EU and China. SAFFI will also set up training and knowledge transfer activities to foster EU-China harmonization of good practices, regulations, standards and technologies, and will cluster with other projects under the EU-China FAB Flagship initiative for continuous upgrade of food safety control. This EU-China multi-actor consortium of 20 partners involves academia, food safety authorities, infant food companies, paediatrics and technological and data-science SMEs.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
75007 Paris
France
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Participants (20)
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44307 Nantes
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94700 Maisons Alfort
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6708 PB Wageningen
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10124 Torino
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08140 Caldes De Montbui Barcelona
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80686 Munchen
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10318 Berlin
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D2 Dublin
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1098 XH Amsterdam
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
72072 Tubingen
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
85276 Pfaffenhofen
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3818 LE Amersfoort
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12131 Peristeri Athina
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75013 PARIS
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310027 HANGZHOU
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310021 HANGZHOU
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210014 Nanjing
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311215 HANGZHOU
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310053 HANGZHOU
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225100 YANGZHOU
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