Objective
For some foodstuffs and food ingredients, irradiation enables the achievement of a greater hygienic safety and avoidance of chemical preservatives. Consumer confidence in irradiated food may be increased when there is clear evidence that the food irradiation treatment is being controlled and labelled. Proposals for European Community legislation are under discussion and this will require the availability of reliable methods to assess that food products are treated by irradiation and to control the trade of irradiated food in the Community. About 50 laboratories have been involved in assessing: deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) based methods; microbiological and biological methods; physical methods; chemical methods.
The following methods have been developed and tested:
a microbiological and a DNA method for screening large quantities of samples including spices, herbs, poultry meat;
a thermoluminescence method (TL) leading to a CEN protocol to detect irradiation of herbs, spices, shrimps;
an electron spin resonance (ESR) method leading to two CEN protocols (meat and fish bones, food collecting cellulose) but also applicable to dried fruits;
a gas phase chromatographic (GPC) method leading to two CEN protocols applicable to food containing lipids.
For some foodstuffs and food ingredients, irradiation enables the achievement of a greater hygienic safety and avoidance of chemical preservatives. Consumer confidence in irradiated food may be increased when there is clear evidence that the food irradiation treatment is being controlled and labelled. Because National Regulations differs, proposals for Community Legislation are under discussion. It covers only a limited number of food types. The correct application of Community Rules will require the availability of reliable methods to assess that food products are treated by irradiation and to control the trade of irradiated food in the Community. A concerted action involving some 50 laboratories of the EC and EFTA countries has been organised for a period of two years. It involves four group working on: DNA based methods, microbiological and biological methods, physical methods, chemical methods.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology other engineering and technologies food technology
- natural sciences biological sciences genetics DNA
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture horticulture fruit growing
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules lipids
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13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance
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29334 Quimper CEDEX
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12101 BERLIN
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75015 Paris
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46010 VALENCIA
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41012 SEVILLA
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GL55 6LD Chipping Campden
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21560 Arc-sur-Tille
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67037 Strasbourg
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M20 9BX Manchester
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28040 MADRID
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00198 Roma
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BT9 5PX Belfast
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85748 Garching bei München
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00100 Santa Maria di Galeria Roma
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3000 BERN
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76131 Karlsruhe
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1096 LISBOA Codex
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00161 Roma
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50144 Firenze
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8000 AARHUS C
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1066 EPALINGES
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NR4 7UQ Norwich
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45413 MUELHEIM AN DER RUHR
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AB9 8DG Aberdeen
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15310 ATTIKIS
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75126 UPPSALA
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2860 SÖBORG
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CH5 4BR Chester
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6700 AE WAGENINGEN
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53115 BONN
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0034 OSLO 1
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02044 Espoo
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75007 UPPSALA
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G75 0QU Glasgow
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4 DUBLIN
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60131 Ancona
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10126 Torino
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1348 LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE
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13397 Marseille
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67400 Illkirch
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