FoodIntegrity
Ensuring the Integrity of the European food chain
The objective was to document fraud and develop methods to prevent fraud and misdescription of food.
Start
01. Jan 2014
End
31. Dec 2014
Funded by
EU - FP7
Cooperation
38 participants, including project coordinator «The Food & Environment Research Agency» (FERA) – UK as well as AZTI – Spain and Matis –Iceland who both also work with seafood products
Project Manager(s):
Other Participants:
Objectives:
- To provide Europe with state of the art integrated capability for detecting fraud and assuring the integrity of the food chain
- For seafood: To design, create and begin to populate a database suitable for documenting the degree and scope of seafood misdescription in Europe
- For seafood: To do spot checks for selected products and analyse to what degree analytically verifiable claims about seafood products are true
- For seafood: To develop a coherent and integrated toolbox, linking seafood product claims to analytical and paper-trail methods, to facilitate verification and validation
Publications
Research areas
Societal impact
Topics
Food fraud