CONFFIDENCE
Safer food through rapid and cost-efficient tests for chemical contaminants in the food chain. This is the major goal of a new European research project called CONffIDENCE.
Contact: Jacob de Jong
MONIQA
We can buy food from all around the world but is it safe to eat? To protect our health and ensure food is safe and of high quality, we need reliable tools and methods to assess the foods we eat. Funded by the European Union, MoniQA brings together 33 organisations from around the world that are working together to help food manufacturers, retail outlets and regulatory bodies to cope with the challenges posed by a globalised food economy. In particular, MoniQA is establishing common methods and standards in food analysis.
Contact: Hans van Egmond
MYCORED
Novel integrated strategies for worldwide mycotoxin reduction in food and feed chains
Contact: Hans van Egmond
NANOLYSE
The NanoLyse project will focus on the development of validated methods and reference materials for the analysis of engineered nano-particles (ENP) in food and beverages.
Contact: Stefan Weigel
PEGASUS
The PEGASUS project aims to provide prospective insight into the public perceptions, advantages and disadvantages of genetically modified livestock animals, as well as the ethical and policy issues surrounding them. The outcome will contain recommendations for European policy makers on how to prepare for possible future scenarios in which companies may want to introduce food or medicinal products derived from these animals onto the EU market. RIKILT contributes to the technical-scientific parts of the project, including the development of case studies that are further explored within the project and their life-science dimensions, in particular from the perspective of food safety. RIKILT also participates in the management of the project.
Contact: Gijs Kleter
Q-NANO
Qnano is an European Union-funded infrastructure for nanomaterial safety testing. This four year project which begins in February 2011 comprises 27 top European analytical & experimental facilities in nanotechnology, medicine and natural sciences. It aims to create an integrated hub to support Europe’s nanosafety research community. RIKILT is WP leader of one of the joint research activities.|
Contact; Hans Marvin
Q-Porkchains
The aim is to develop high quality pork products in sustainable production systems with low environmental impact.
Contact: Ine Fels
QSAFFE project
The rearing of healthy European livestock is highly dependent on the provision of high quality and safe feeds for these animals. This in turn has a major impact on the safety of the entire animal based food chain. The concept of QSAFFE is to deliver better, faster and more economically viable means of ensuring the quality and safety of animal feeds in Europe.
Contact: Jacob de Jong.
RADAR
Contact: Monique Bremer
SELAMAT sustainable
European food safety goes global.
A network organisation that brings together stakeholders dealing with food safety from Europe and Asia to share metho-dology and policy developments related to food quality and safety.
Contact: Hans Marvin
SIMBAGFEED (u gaat naar onze Engelse site)
Screening and identification methods for official control of banned antibiotics and growth promoters in feedingstuffs
Contact: Jacob de Jong