Centres of Excellence/ Other Projects
SAFE FOODS
6th Framework Programme EU
Project title: Promoting Food Safety through a New Integrated Risk Analysis Approach for Foods
Contract No QLK5-CT-2002-00971
Acronym: SAFE FOODS
Project duration: 1st April 2004 – 31st March 2008
Main coordinator:
Dr. Harry Kuiper
Institute of Food Safety (RIKILT), Wageningen, The Netherlands
Polish partner:
professor Ewa Zimnoch-Guzowska
Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute, Research Division Młochów, Department of Potato Genetics and Parental Lines
Recent food safety incidents and the introduction of genetically modified foods in Europe have resulted in an intense public debate regarding the safety of the European food supply. Consumers have little confidence in the safety of their food supply and remain sceptical and distrustful of the management procedures currently in place.
The Integrated Project “Promoting Food Safety through a New Integrated Risk Analysis Approach for Foods” addresses the issue of how consumer confidence in consumer protection and risk analysis can be restored and strengthened. The proposed research attempts to improve current risk analysis practices for foods produced by different breeding approaches and production practices deploying high and low input systems. The research activities will result in designing new effective procedures for risk analysis.
The Integrated Project consists of a number of research projects with a high degree of coherence. Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute (IHAR) takes part in research project “Comparative Safety Evaluation of Breeding Approaches and Production Practices Deploying High- and Low Input Systems”. In the frame of this project, IHAR is responsible for preparing and performing field experiments under different cultivation regimes (high and low input) with set of potato cultivars and breeding lines (diploid and transgenic). The potato cultivars and lines represent a wide range of resistances to different pathogens and are differentiated in the quality traits. The plant material (tubers) will be tested by others partners in terms of metabolic profiling. This should give the answer to questions, whether different production and breeding systems evoke different level of risk and whether metabolomic methods are suitable for risk assessment.
Link: http://www.safefoods.nl/default.aspx
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