Outputs from Traceability projects presented by Kieran Jordan representing:

Outputs from Traceability projects

presented by

Kieran Jordan

representing:

Traceability project outputs

• Actual outputs that benefit the consumer– Food and feed chains– Fish, Beef, Dairy, Water, etc.– Microbiological and chemical contaminants– Traceability

• Benefits for industry automatically benefit the consumer– Safer food– Fresher food– Cheaper food

Outputs

Traceability projects

GDH+ & AT+

Four sub-themes in outputs

• Improved detection methods for contaminants

• Risk Assessment

• Computer technology/Labelling improvements

• Additional consumer benefits

Improved detection methods

presented by

Kieran Jordan

representing:

The problem• Contaminant detection is an issue

for the manufacturer/producer – but it impacts on the consumer

• Current problem is that many contaminant detection methods are inadequate and expensive

• Traceability projects have addressed this problem and developed many improved detection methods

The solution

• Many projects have outputs in better detection methods– Salmonella, Norovirus, Listeria,

air sampler

• Anti-parasitic drug residues: simultaneous detection of 38 compounds

Kieran Jordan, BIOTRACER Project

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Risk Assessmentpresented by

Dr. Fergal Tansey

Project Manager - SigmaChain Project

School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine

University College Dublin, Ireland

Risk Assessment Outputs

• A Stakeholder’s Guide: assessment of food chain vulnerability to contamination

• Decision support tools: assist producers to make informed decisions

• Quantitative hygienic control concept

Stakeholder’s Guide to risks• Case studies on 4 ‘high vulnerability’ products, representing three

major food chains:– drinking water - a rapid contamination chain – milk powder - a batch mixing chain – poultry meat - a long geographic chain – farmed salmon - a long geographic chain

• A Stakeholder’s Guide will allow users to assess food chain vulnerability to contamination and to prevent or minimize contamination at the weakest steps in the chain, producing a safer product for the consumer

• Helps to identify key detailed chain information on production and vulnerabilities and so form a link with early warning systems for the food industry.

BIOTRACER Decision Support ToolA model that supports reasoning and decision making under uncertainty

– quantitative risk analysis

•Complex high-tech user interface for domain modelling experts•Requires a high level of understanding of the mathematical models and the domain being model• Not appropriate for non-modellers

- A basic IT infrastructure for advanced mathematical models on the Internet using simple web forms

- Simple for any user

• Development of a software based model for Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA) of cold chains

• Integration of the QMRA into a computer based Decision Support System (DSS) to enable informed decision making in the cold chain

Chill-On Decision Support Tool

Fergal Tansey, Sigma-Chain Project

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ICT and Sensor Technology

presented by

Christian Colmer, CHILL-ON Projectttz Bremerhaven

eCHILL-ON smart label

Time Temperature Indicators (TTI)

Novel Smart Labels for the wireless transfer of temperature data together with

product/batch ID

Server

Reader / Data

storage

Global Information System

Advantage:

- Tracking of products during transport phase

- Displaying on maps geographically referenced information of products

Suggestion for the future:

- Calculation of CO2 Footprint

ID

WLANGSM

TRACECHILLServer

Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)

• Used by companies to record quality control information

• Problem: No link to connect this information from one LIMS to another to enable traceability

• Solution: Development of a prototype model to link LIMS to traceability

Christian Colmer, CHILL-ON Project

ttz BremerhavenPhone: +49 (0) 471 4832 150

Fax: +49 (0) 471 4832 129Email: [email protected]

Fischkai 1 – 27572 Bremerhaven – Germany

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Additional Consumer-related Ouputs

presented by

Jeffrey SkibyDissemination Coordinator, BIOTRACER,

Technical University of Denmark

Is my hamburger ’safe’?

• Focus-group discussions and survey on beef safety conducted by ProSafeBeef

– What is ’safe beef’?– Who is responsible?– Who do you trust?

Can I get a ’slushie’ with my fish?

• Bubble SlurryTM ice developedthrough CHILL-ON– Fast and efficient cooling

of just-caught fish– Ice completely

encompasses the product, without air pockets

Is my French wine really from France?

• Food mapping developed by TRACE– Worldwide network of scientists collecting

geological and climatic information– Product can be tested to prove it comes from

a specific region

Don’t trace only the packaging, trace the food inside!

• TRACEBACK new food-chain traceability system– Ensures safety and quality of

foods from raw material to sale

– Combines software and sensors

Jeffrey Skiby, BIOTRACER Project

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