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The Project
BASELINE is a research project founded by the KBBE theme of FP7. Its overall objective is to provide harmonized and validated sampling strategies, structured as International standard (ex. ISO), to support the European policies in food safety and to be suitable for food producers, in order to collect comparable data to improve quantitative risk analysis of selected biological and chemical agents in five selected food chains: seafood, eggs and egg products, milk and dairy products, fresh meats and plant products.
Objectives of the project
The major output of the project is to generate new knowledge on sampling schemes to collect data for risk assessment by using a mathematical approach. The project has set up a modelling "software", able to establish food safety criteria based on distribution of biological hazards and related sampling protocol in each of the five food chains studied. The large application of the sampling schemes developed during the BASELINE to verify the compliance to food safety criteria will increase the probability to detect chemical and biological risks in foods before their distribution to consumers, decreasing the negative economical impact on both food producers and general society due to food recalls and foodborne diseases, respectively.
About the Conference
The aim of the conference is to disseminate the final results of the FP7 project BASELINE and to discuss them with a wider audience including policy makers, stakeholders, participants of related research projects and the research community.
Program rationale
The conference is organized in two main sessions:
1) morning: presentation of results by main thematic area;
2) afternoon: analysis of interplay between different issues and discussion with stakeholders (food authorities and laboratory technicians).
Scientific coordinator
Prof. Gerardo Manfreda
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences
gerardo.manfreda@unibo.it
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