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Q-PorkChains - Improving the quality of pork and pork products for the consumer: Development of an innovative, integrated, and sustainable food production chain of high quality pork products matching consumer demand
Project code
: 36245
Contract period
:
- 2012
Total budget
: 14500000 Euro
The objective of Q-PorkChains was to develop innovative, integrated and sustainable food production chains of high quality pork products matching consumer demands, by development and testing of advanced and multi-disciplinary approaches for identification, characterisation, prediction, and control of the quality of pork and pork products in different stages of the pork chain in diverse production systems. Q-PorkChains was the largest project of the EU six framework program, which was engaged in meat science. More than 50 organisations from 21 countries worked together on the project for five years, from 2007-2011.
Coordinating institution
Work package leader
Subprojects
modules
- Q-PorkChains. Module I: Consumer/Market Analysis
- Q-PorkChains. Module II: Diversity, Flexibility and Sustainability of Farm-level Production Systems
- Q-PorkChains. Module III: Product Development – Quality, Nutrition and Convenience
- Q-PorkChains. Module IV: Integration and Sustainable Management of the Production Chain
- Q-PorkChains. Module V: New Biology as a Tool for Control of Pork Quality
- Q-PorkChains. Module VI: Synthesis of Existing Knowledge on Pork Quality, Safety and Welfare
- Q-PorkChains. Module A: Pilot and Demonstration Chains
- Q-PorkChains. Module B: Education, Training and Dissemination