The GFSP Open Source Platform for Food Safety Training and Development

GFSP Open Source Platform for Food Safety Training and Development

Aephoria.net Workshop - December 10th, 2014, Athens, Greece

Georgia- Lito Pateraki

Food Safety Specialist

Agro-Know

about Agro-Know

An extraordinary company that captures, organizes and adds value to the rich information available in agricultural and biodiversity sciences, in order to

make it universally accessible, useful and meaningful.

Aephoria.net Workshop - Athens, 10 December, 2014

We build unique solutions that help people and organizations

address challenging societal and environmental challenges.

We help people discover the value in the data.


Our major customers & collaborators

UN FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

IICA: Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

The World BankCAAS/AII: Chinese Academy of

Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural Information Institute

MSU Global: Initiative of the Michigan State University

GRNET: Greek Research & Technology Network

DFID: UK Department for International Development

WUR: Wageningen University & Research

GFAR: Global Forum on Agricultural Research

UAH: University of Alcalá, Information Engineering Research

Unit

IFAD: International Fund for Agricultural Development

INRA: French Institute of Agricultural Research

ICARDA: International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry

Areas

ISKME: Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in

Education

Developing solutions exploiting open data & public infrastructure

• Re-use existing open solutions

• Take advantage of public infrastructure (e.g. grid, cloud, services)– agINFRA: agriculture e-infrastructure

(www.aginfra.eu)

– SemaGrow: agriculture big data services (www.semagrow.eu)

• Market on actual Agro-Know solution


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identifying requirements for the food safety information

sharing platform for the GFSP


the process

Identification of representative stakeholder

institutes & personas within

Interviews on data problems & sources

Mapping data problems to GFSP platform

requirements / features

Validation of GFSP platform features

• example of representative institute: International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

• example of representative persona: (i) ILRI epidemiologist & (ii) advisor of dairy producers in Kenya

• collection of microbial dairy quality data

• data sharing• …

Persona 1Researcher- epidemiologist


1i persona

• investigates of the behavior of diseases in animal populations (e.g. through interviews with farm workers)

• characterizes diseases in animals and humans in the hope of better understanding the infectious agent

• gathers data on disease hosts• interested in zoonoses, diseases that pass from animals to people,

such as ebola and bird flu (e.g. examines zoonotic diseases in pigs at slaughter, checking the occupational risks at work)

• collects samples for laboratory analysis (together with a medical officer)

• analytical techniques to discover the infectious agent from a sample of population

• characterizes the infectious agent

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Annie Cook, a graduate fellow at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Kenya, is a veterinary epidemiologist with the following responsibilities:


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1ii related information / data

• population demographics & statistical data

• research articles in journals publications

• newsletters

• conference presentations & papers in published proceedings

• chapters in books

• corporate outputs

• secondary / processed data

• food risk assessment

• project reports, papers and documents


1iii challenges in current workflow

• data collection and sharing

• limited primary data discovery and validation

• time-consuming & laborious data identification and documentation

• limitation in accessing relevant publications

• difficulty to discover peers to collaborate / to exchange of knowledge and experience

• multiple databases for processed data storage and curation

• dissemination own research outcomes


1iv possible platform features


improve curation of data

• focus on making data documentation, storage, management and sharing easier

a) migrate existing databases (Mahider, ILRI website, ILRI datasets Portal, ILRI GIS Portal & Podomatic) in single data repository

b) improve data organization & classification schemes (e.g. by zoonoses)

c) improve data curation & filtering workflows (document & store data once, feed multiple sites/access points)


central data repository

advanced data organisation & classification

use single data repository for all ILRI sites

improve discovery & processing

• focus on zoonotic diseases reports

a) extend coverage of data types

b) extend coverage of data sources (include more sites with zoonoses and infectious agents)


add more (relevant) data sources

connect with other research groups

• focus on exchanging knowledge / experience among different research groups

– find research groups with similar research activities


community of ILRI / external epidemiologists

Persona 2 advisor of dairy producers


2i persona

• offers co-operative dairy farm planning services and guidance on milking efficiency to help achieve the best results from farmer's equipment & animals.

• provides training for the farmer and employees at system start-up, schedule follow-up visits for system evaluation, and offer ongoing advisory services for more efficient farm management.

• interested on dairy management, milk quality and food safety, forage quality, animal health and well being

Eric is a Dairy Farm advisor in Kenya. He is interested in educating himself with the basic aspects of Food Safety in order to support milk producers with high quality advisory services. He believes that the online training could be an ideal way to learn more information about HACCP principles and certification on dairy products.


2ii related information / data

• research articles in journals publications

• newsletters

• conference presentations & papers in published proceedings

• chapters in books

• corporate outputs

• secondary / processed data

• food risk assessment

• factsheets


2iii challenges in current workflow

• easy way to follow educational content (online trainings / courses) on food safety issues, as

– Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs),

– standards (Codex Alimentarius),

– regulations,

– certifications on dairy products

• difficulty to discover educational resources and training courses on Food Safety

• connect with the community of dairy experts (advisors of dairy products) from a wide range of regions


2iv possible platform features


follow related educational content

discover relevant content

community of advisors of dairy producers

GFSP demonstrator (Food Safety Information Sharing Platform)

hands-on


GFSP demonstrator http://gfsp.agro-know.com

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GFSP demonstrator hands-on

Try yourself

• go to http://gfsp.agro-know.com

• provide your feedback to

– the printed questionnaire

– (or) the online form http://goo.gl/forms/y6X2Fq9nKR

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