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NovelQ is an Integrated Project, contract no. FOOD-CT-2005-015710 funded by the European Commission, within the sixth Framework Programme, priority Food Quality and Safety. The main objective is to develop and successfully demonstrate - eco-friendly - novel processing technologies (high pressure processing, pulsed electric field processing, plasma, advanced heating technologies and packaging) for improved quality (fresh-like character, extended shelf-life) food. The project has started on 1 March 2006 and has a duration of 5 years.

 

 

ERA-ARD is a project within the frame of the ERA-NET Programme of the European Commission.
The project seeks to improve synergies between the European national ARD programmes, increase the effectiveness and efficiency of European research planning, funding and implementation to fight poverty and hunger and to support a more rapid and sustainable development in the poorest countries in the world.

 

The project aims at creating а broad platform for education VET policy in Biotechnology and Public Health. It includes stock information, resource analysis, as well as innovative learning opportunities embedding the recent trends in the field. The project offers an educational opportunity for collaborative training at European level and promotes the European strategy in education and public health. The structure is a Transnational Network (TN) within a group of partners and potential users, acting as a Virtual Training Center (BT-Health) in the field of public health and biotechnology.

 

 

Our mission is to help people make the right choice in an easy and enjoyable way. The project partners work together to reach the potential users with positive education messages that stress the importance of the balance between variety, enjoyment, work and knowledge.

 

 

 

The objective of the Integrated Project BIOTRACER is to develop methods to trace the course of food and feed contamination.

 

 

 

This Integrated Project addresses the issue of how consumer confidence in consumer protection and risk analysis can be restored and strengthened. This project is subsidised by the European Commission through the 6th framework programme.

 

 

 

The strategic objective of the SEAFOODplus Integrated Programme is to reduce health problems and to increase well-being among European consumers by applying the benefits obtained.

 

 

 

SELAMAT is bringing together scientists and regulators in Europe and Asia in a network to share methodology and policy developments related to food quality. It should lead to scientific partnerships involving Asian food industries in a concerted effort towards the assured, safer and more sustainable production systems that Europe is aiming to achieve.

 

 

 

The CASCADE Network of Excellence, launched in February 2004 within EU's sixth framework programme, aims to provide Europeans with a durable, comprehensive and independent network of excellence in research, risk assessment, and education on health risks that are associated with exposure to chemical residues in food. Focus lies on chemicals that act via and/or interfere with cellular regulation by hormone receptors.

 

 

 

The focus of the HEATOX project, which is an international collaboration, is health risks recently discovered associated with hazardous compounds in heat treated carbohydrate-rich foods where substantial amounts of acrylamide and similar compounds can be formed.

 

 

 

 

The Integrated Project QualityLowInputFood aims to improve quality, ensure safety and reduce cost along the organic and "low input" food supply chains through research, dissemination and training activities.

 

 

The EU project Quantitative risk assessment strategies for novel foods – in short called NOFORISK – will develop and validate the scientific methodology which is necessary for quantitative risk assessment of “second generation” of novel foods to be marketed in the EU.

 

 

 

 

The primary aim of NuGO is integration, making future nutrigenomics research easier. Twenty-two partners organisation from ten European countries form the core of  The European Nutrigenomics Organisation (NuGO).

 

 

EuroPrevall aims are to deliver improved quality of life for food allergic people. This will be achieved by integrating information and developing tools for use by European food allergy scientists, health professionals, food and biotech industries, and consumers – those who are food allergic and those who are not.

 

 

TRACE is funded through the Food and Quality Priority of the EU Framework VI research programme and aims to deliver a traceability infrastructure that can trace and confirm the origin of food

 

 

 

Diogenes is a pan-European Programme targeting the obesity problem from a dietary perspective: seeking new insights and new routes to prevention. An Integrated Project of the EU Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (2005-2009). The name Diogenes is the acronym and stands for "Diet, Obesity and Genes".

 

 

Grain Legumes

Grain Legumes Integrated Project (GLIP) is a large multinational project, co-funded by the European Commission FP6 Framework Programme, striving to develop new strategies to enhance the use of grain legumes crops in food for human consumption and animal feed in Europe and beyond.

 

Genomics to advance animal health
Improving the health of farmed animals is a pressing issue for Europe. At the moment, European husbandry leads the world in efficiency and animal welfare, but livestock everywhere is prone to disease. Traditional therapies, such as antibiotics and anti-worm treatments, are becoming less effective as pathogens continue to develop resistance to them and there is increased pressure to cut down the use of drugs in order to reduce the risk of them entering the food chain. So, new control methods must be found to keep animals healthy and prevent diseases, many of which also infect humans, affecting food.

 

 

Med-Vet-Net is the European Network of Excellence for Zoonoses research. Zoonoses are diseases that are naturally transmitted from animals to man. Med-Vet-Net aims to is to develop a network of excellence for the integration of veterinary, medical and food scientists, in the field of food safety, at the European Level, in order to improve research on the prevention and control of zoonoses, including food-borne diseases. The Network will also take into account the public health concerns of consumers and other stakeholders throughout the food chain.

 

a Network of Excellence on prion diseases.

Since the appearance of the first mad cow disease cases in the 1980s, prion diseases have become a major problem for society, with important health and economical consequences. The task of NeuroPrion is to respond to this threat by strengthenning European research in the field of prion diseases and by providing the means to avoid further BSE/prion crises.

 

 

  

EuroFIR (European Food Information Resource Network), the world –leading European Network of Excellence on Food Composition Databank systems, is a partnership between 46 universities, research institutes and small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) from 25 European countries. EuroFIR will provide the first comprehensive pan-European food information resource, using state-of-the-art database linking, to allow effective management, updating, extending and comparability.