Outputs from Traceability projects

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Outputs from Traceability projects

• presented by
• Kieran Jordan
• representing

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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

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Traceability projects
Outputs
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Four sub-themes in outputs

• Improved detection methods for contaminants
• Risk Assessment
• Computer technology/Labelling improvements
• Additional consumer benefits

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Improved detection methods

• presented by
• Kieran Jordan
• representing

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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

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The solution

• Many projects have outputs in better detection
  methods
• Salmonella, Norovirus, Listeria,
• air sampler
• Anti-parasitic drug residues simultaneous
  detection of 38 compounds

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Thank you for your attention
Kieran Jordan, BIOTRACER Project
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Risk Assessment

• presented by
• Dr. Fergal Tansey
• Project Manager - SigmaChain Project
• School of Agriculture, Food Science and
  Veterinary Medicine
• University College Dublin, Ireland

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Risk Assessment Outputs

• A Stakeholders Guide assessment of food chain
  vulnerability to contamination
• Decision support tools assist producers to make
  informed decisions
• Quantitative hygienic control concept

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Stakeholders 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 Stakeholders 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.

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BIOTRACER Decision Support Tool
A model that supports reasoning and decision
making under uncertainty quantitative risk
analysis

• A basic IT infrastructure for advanced
  mathematical models on the Internet using simple
  web forms
• Simple for any user

• 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

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Chill-On Decision Support Tool

• 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

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Thank you for your attention
Fergal Tansey, Sigma-Chain Project
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ICT and Sensor Technology

• presented by
• Christian Colmer, CHILL-ON Project
• ttz Bremerhaven

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eCHILL-ON smart label
Time Temperature Indicators (TTI) ? Novel Smart
Labels for the wireless transfer of temperature
data together with product/batch ID
Reader / Data storage
Server
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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

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WLANGSM
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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

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Thank you for your attention
Christian Colmer, CHILL-ON Project ttz
Bremerhaven Phone [phone] Fax 49
(0) 471 4832 129 Email ccolmer_at_ttz-bremerhaven.de
Fischkai 1 27572 Bremerhaven Germany
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Additional Consumer-related Ouputs

• presented by
• Jeffrey Skiby
• Dissemination Coordinator, BIOTRACER, Technical
  University of Denmark

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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?

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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

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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

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Dont 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

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Thank you for your attention
Jeffrey Skiby, BIOTRACER Project