Category Research project
  • Expositionsschätzung

A Joined-up approach to the identification, assessment and management of emerging food safety hazards and associated risks

Project status
In Progress
Project start
Oct 2022
Project end
Sept 2026
Acronym
FOODSAFER
Department
Biologische Sicherheit
Website
https://foodsafer.com/

Description and Objective

In Europe, each year foodborne hazards cause more than 20 million cases of illness and thousands of deaths. Food safety management systems established over the past decades in our European food businesses, and European food safety governance need to be adapted to make the food system more robust towards multiple stressor coming dynamically up. FoodSafeR aims to design, develop and test the building blocks of an innovative pro-active and holistic food safety warning and management system with a look on the dynamics of emerging risks at its heart. FoodSafeR embodies integrated approaches to hazard characterisation and risk management. An open and accessible digital hub will form a core of a sustaining information system targeted at risk managers and assessors, food safety authorities and the relevant actors and stakeholders operating in the European food system. FoodSafeR will contribute to prevent food safety incidences occurring from biological and chemical hazards in the European food system as well as relevant socio-economic impacts. FoodSafeR contributes to sustainable, healthy and inclusive food systems. BfRshort forGerman Federal Institute for Risk Assessment will contribute to the identification of Food System Stressors and Future Proof Risk Management, lead tasks related to Microbial Hazards and associated Risks Emergence and Persistence and contribute to the content of an Open Digital Hub for decision support on food safety management. Work of BfRshort forGerman Federal Institute for Risk Assessment will focus on mapping the peculiarities of alternative food networks and how to address these using the tool FoodChainLab and conduct of a case study on the risk of emerging AMRshort forAntimicrobial resistance traits-aquaculture.
Type of project

Third-party funded project

Research focus

Expositionsabschätzung und Bewertung biologischer Risiken

Organisational units and partners

Lead specialist group: Epidemiologie, Zoonosen und Antibiotikaresistenz (43) External partner: Austrian Competence Centre for Feed and Food Quality, Safety and Innovation, Austrian Institute of Technology, Universität Gent, Wageningen University & Research, University of Burgos, Agricultural University of Athens, The Queen's University of Belfast, IRIS Technology Solutions S.L., Biosense Institute, Biomin Holding GmbH, AUT, Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition, National Food Chain Safety Office, National Veterinary Research Institute , FOODREGSCI Europe SAS, Food Safety Authority of Ireland, BIGH Anderlecht SPRL, Nestle

Funding body and grant number

Europäische Union
Grant Agreement 101060698

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