Welcome to the Chill-On Project!


Novel Technologies for a Safe and Transparent Food Supply

Funded by the European Union CHILL-ON aims to improve the quality and safety, transparency and traceability of the chilled/frozen supply chain by developing cost-effective technologies, devices and approaches for continous monitoring and recording of the relevant data and processing the data for information management throughout the entire supply chain. As fish is at the third place in the European food market and is one of the most sensitive good with regard to food poisoning, the chilled and frozen fish supply chain has been selected to be the test case.

CHILL-ON Field Trials: Safe Fish from Island to France. A Report from Euronews “Futuris”.

 

 

What's For Lunch Conference


Food integrity is becoming increasingly important; authenticity, origin of food, geographical location (terroir), traceability and security and safety of food production requires new diagnostic tools and implementation of new information systems.

The What's for Lunch conference is a Media Event organised by the coordinators of 8-10 major European research projects which include some of the world's largest food safety research projects in the areas of microbiology, chemistry and production technologies. It is aimed at marketing the available results and technology transfer possibilities through active demonstrations, different media, round table discussion, animation, questionnaires, and other communication devices. The event will demonstrate what has been done and what has still to be done to ensure proper food chain integrity and food security. Additionally many of the technologies developed within the projects had potentially wide generic applications in many other sectors outside of food where traceability is viewed as an information carrier.

These research actions have now finished and generated a huge amount of data, results, and deliverables. The projects have since worked together in preparing this conference aimed at disseminating the true scale of these results, the advancement that has been made in this area and the excellent possibilities for technology transfer, to an audience of invited stakeholders from different sectors such as policy makers, consumers, and industry.

Background: Food Chain Traceability was given a special emphasis in Priority 5 of the sixth framework programme (2002-2006) resulting in over 14 different research projects, and a total research budget of over 140 Million € over four years, and involving up to 400 different participants across 30 countries.

The overall objective was to increase consumer confidence in the food supply by strengthening the technology needed to ensure complete traceability along the entire food and animal feed chain. These technologies would link products to their source, their declared origin, or to the specific way they were made. It would also provide technologies to trace contamination or substance presence such as bacteria, toxins, or genetically modified organisms, along the chain from raw material origin to the purchased food product. A wide number of food sectors have been covered and used as models from beef, fish, water, olive oil, to different food formats; fresh, chilled, or farm livestock. Accordingly, a wide range of technologies have been investigated from sophisticated electronic sensors, navigation systems, and software to an extensive range of genomic molecular diagnostics.

Further Information: