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EU - FP6 Priority thematic areas 5: Food Quality and Safety
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The primary objective of this Thematic Priority is to improve the health and well-being of European citizens through higher quality food and improved control of food production and related environmental factors. This approach re-addresses the classical 'farm-to-fork' approach by giving priority to consumers’ demands and rights for high quality and safe food. Taking the
'fork-to-farm' approach provides the primary driver for developing new and safer food production chains and foods, relying in particular on biotechnology tools and taking into account the latest results of genomics research. The anticipated benefits will be achieved by developing and integrating research in a way that food from farming, including fishing and aquaculture, is produced, distributed and consumed along the various stages of the food production chain and includes consideration of associated environmental factors and their
influence on human health.
Field of research:
5.4.1 Area: Total food chain
Sub-fields of research:
(T1.1) Improving the quality and safety of beef and beef products for the consumer in production and processing – IP
(T1.2) Improving the quality and safety of poultry products for the consumer – STREP
T5.4.1.1 Increasing fruit consumption through a trans-disciplinary approach delivering high quality produce from environmentally friendly, sustainable production methods (IP)
T5.4.1.2 Improving quality and fostering innovation of European traditional food production systems (IP or NoE)
T5.4.1.3 Improving the quality and safety of ready-to-eat products and semi-prepared foodstuffs by the exploitation of new and innovative technologies (STREP)
T5.4.1.4 Improving the quality and safety of pork and pork products for the consumer (IP)(2006)
T5.4.1.5 Improving the safety of beef and beef products for the consumer in production and processing (IP)(2006)
(T2) Quality seafood for improved consumer health and well-being (IP or NoE)
(T1) Food from low input and organic production systems: Ensuring the safety and improving quality along the whole chain (IP or NoE)
(T3) Pathogen free production systems
Field of research:
5.4.2 Area: Epidemiology of food-related diseases and allergies
Sub-fields of research:
(T2.1) Validated food information database for Europe – NOE
(T2.2) Epidemiology of food allergy – IP or NOE
(T2.3) Influence of gene-nutrient interaction on the development of obesity – IP or NOE
(T2.4) Nutritional and lifestyle habits of adolescents throughout Europe, including development of health-promoting foods with sensory properties attractive to adolescents – STREP
T5.4.2.1 Influence of diet and lifestyle on children’s health (IP)
T5.4.2.2 Developing a trans-European methodology to study food consumption (STREP)
T5.4.2.3 Health risks and benefits of increased global trade in foods and food ingredients (STREP)
T5.4.2.4 Nutrient status and requirements of specific population groups (NOE) (2006)
T5.4.2.5 Influence of dietary history on coeliac disease (STREP) (2006)
(T5) Validated food information database for Europe
(T6) Influence of nutrition and lifestyle on healthy ageing aimed at preventing adult degenerative disease
Field of research:
5.4.3 Area: Impact of food on health
Sub-fields of research:
(T3.1) Programming effects of early nutrition on long-term health – IP
(T3.2) Gut health – foods, microbes and the immune system – IP
(T3.3) Improving and enhancing the nutritional value and health benefits of cereals – IP
T5.4.3.1 Understanding consumer choices and dietary habits (NOE)
T5.4.3.2 Diet and cardiovascular disease (IP)
T5.4.3.3 Improving patients’ health through diet (IP)
T5.4.3.4 Catering and eating out of home (CA)
T5.4.3.5 Milk and dairy products with optimised bioactivity (IP) (2006)
T5.4.3.6 Food components preventing dental diseases (STREP) (2006)
T5.4.3.7 Optimising food processing for nutritional and environmental quality (STREP) (2006)
(T11) Lipid metabolism and the metabolic syndrome
(T10) Functional genomics in relation to food, nutrition and health
(T13) Food safety, risk assessment and communication
(T12) Health risks from heat treated foods and food products
(T40) Alternatives to antimicrobials in feeds
Field of research:
5.4.4 Area: “Traceability” processes along the production chain
Sub-fields of research:
(T4.1) Development of reliable traceability methods and systems to establish the origin/ mode of production of food products – IP
(T4.2) GMO co-existence and traceability of GMO ingredients along the food and feed chain – IP or NOE
T5.4.4.1 Chilled and frozen supply chain (IP)
T5.4.4.2 Vulnerability of food and feed chains to dangerous agents and substances (STREP)
T5.4.4.3 Origin and development of unintended micro-organisms in the food and feed chains (IP) (2006)
T5.4.4.4 Monitoring handling practices in the total chain (IP) (2006)
(T17) Development of reliable traceability methods and systems to establish the origin/ mode of production of food products
Field of research:
5.4.5 Area: Methods of analysis, detection and control
Sub-fields of research:
(T5.1) New approaches towards monitoring and preventing chemical contaminants in food products – IP or NOE
(T5.2) Development of cost-effective control and prevention strategies for emerging and future foodborne pathogenic microorganisms throughout the food chain – IP or NOE
(T5.3) Development of cost-effective tools for risk management and traceability systems for zoonotic agents and marine biotoxins in seafood – STREP or CA
T5.4.5.1 Novel tools for harmonised risk assessment and risk communication (IP)
T5.4.5.2 Advanced rapid, non-destructive and non-invasive techniques for screening of foods and feeds (IP)
T5.4.5.3 Investigating the fundamentals of TSE enabling the rational development of detection and control strategies (STREP)
T5.4.5.1 Quality and safety control strategies for food (NoE) (2006)
T5.4.5.2 Developing improved TSE inactivation methods (STREP) (2006)
T5.4.5.3 BSE infectivity of milk, milk products and meat derived from goats (STREP) (2006)
(T18) Prevention and control of zoonoses including food borne diseases (2003)
(T19) Prevention, control and management of prion diseases
(T20) Development of quantitative risk assessment strategies based on probabilistic, genomic and profiling approaches including a risk-benefit evaluation for novel foods
Field of research:
5.4.6 Area: Safer and environmentally friendly production methods and technologies and healthier foodstuffs
Sub-fields of research:
(T6.1) High throughput analysis of plant composition and metabolism for improving end-product quality in the plant food chain – IP
(T6.2) Soil microbial community management for safe production under biotic and environmental stress conditions – IP
(T6.3) Exploitation of plant biodiversity to reduce application of chemicals for disease control – IP
(T6.4) Platform for improving the immunological status of livestock (including fish) for better disease protection – IP or NOE
(T6.5) Flavonoids in fruit and vegetables: their impact on food quality, nutrition and health – STREP or CA
(T6.6) Recycling and upgrading organic wastes from the food chain in environmentally friendly healthy food production – STREP or CA
(T6.7) Sustainable aquaculture ensuring high-quality and safe products – CA
(T6.8) Porcine circovirus diseases – STREP
(T6.9) Use of genetic resistance as a tool to control plant pathogenic viruses – CA
T5.4.6.1 Improving crops for quality and human health (IP)
T5.4.6.2 Novel processing methods for the production and distribution of high-quality and safe foods (IP)
T5.4.6.3 Genomics and epigenetics to develop sustainable animal breeding strategies for improved long-term product quality and safety (IP)
T5.4.6.4 Network on epizootic disease diagnosis and control (NoE)
T5.4.6.5 Sustainable apiculture and honey production (STREP)
T5.4.6.6 Methods for the control of helminths in livestock (STREP)
T5.4.6.7 Developing efficient and stable biological containment systems for GM plants (STREP)
T5.4.6.8 Improved rabbit production (STREP)
T5.4.6.9 Rational use of water for quality and safe crop products (STREP)
T5.4.6.10 Mycobacterium avium sub-species paratuberculosis diagnosis and control (STREP)
T5.4.6.1 Reducing the use of plant protection products (NoE) (2006)
T5.4.6.2 Management of waste from farms and fisheries (CA) (2006)
T5.4.6.3 Linking national research communities working on E. coli O157 research (CA) (2006)
T5.4.6.4 High throughput analysis of plant composition and metabolism (STREP) (2006)
T5.4.6.5 Reduced fertiliser inputs through improved management of soil microbes (STREP) (2006)
T5.4.6.6 Disease risk for consumers from alternative and enriched cage laying hen systems (STREP) (2006)
(T25) Improved strategies in animal welfare for improved food quality
(T26) Genomics of host-pathogen interactions in animals
(T24) High throughput analysis of plant composition and metabolism for optimising end-product quality in the plant food chain
(T29) Disease risk from alternative and enriched cage and free-range systems
(T27) Improved crop protection systems based on biological control methods for safer low input production systems
(T30) Simulation modelling for improved crop establishment in low input systems
(T28) Antibiotic resistance in animals, plants and humans
Field of research:
5.4.7 Area: Impact of animal feed on human health
Sub-fields of research:
T5.4.7.1 Impact of aquaculture feeds of different origins on human food quality, safety and health (IP)
T5.4.7.2 Development of alternative sources of nutrients in livestock feeds (STREP)
T5.4.7.1 Feed safety control (STREP) (2006)
(T39) New strategies to improve grain legumes for food and feed
Field of research:
5.4.8 Area: Environmental health risks
Sub-fields of research:
(T8.1) Environmental and endogenous factors influencing puberty onset – STREP
(T8.2) Environmental cancer risk, nutrition and individual susceptibility – NOE
(T8.3) Food and fecundity – STREP
(T8.4) Pathogens in drinking water sources – STREP
T5.4.8.1 Assessing the health impact of metals: Sources, benefits and toxic effects (IP)
T5.4.8.2 Developing biomarkers of exposure to chemicals and biomarkers of effects, using mother-child birth cohorts and biobanks (IP)
T5.4.8.3 Assessing health benefits against potential effects of environmental contaminants in selected food groups (STREP)
T5.4.8.4 Risk assessment of non-dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) (STREP)
T5.4.8.1 Investigating the cause of allergy (IP) (2006)
T5.4.8.2 Investigation of potential health impacts of long-term exposure to disinfection by-products in drinking water (STREP) (2006)
T5.4.8.3 Pathogens in drinking water sources (STREP) (2006)
(T41) Human health implications of exposure to chemical residues in the environment
(T42) Allergy and asthma
(T43) Neurotoxic effects of environmental contaminants
(T44) Effects of environmental exposure to complex chemical mixtures
Field of research:
T0 Realising ERA objectives
Sub-fields of research:
T0 Realising ERA objectives - Promotion of SME participation - Stimulating international cooperation - Linking with Candidate Countries - Supporting Policy Development - Stimulating exploitation - Contributing to the EU strategy for Life Scien
