Project Details
DiTECT will develop an integrated framework for real-time detection, assessment, and mitigation of biological, chemical and environmental contaminants throughout the food supply chain. Bringing together research, industrial and food authority partners representing the agro-food industry in the EU and China, DiTECT aspires to establish the foundation for future food safety monitoring platforms, through the development of a standards-based, modular, Big Data-enabled platform, capable of accurately predicting food safety parameters of a given food product based on data collected in real-time via cost-efficient sensors, at crop, grain storage, livestock and finally in the food supply, incorporating blockchain processes.
DiTECT integrates multidisciplinary research teams from fields such as microbial and spectroscopic fingerprinting technologies; emerging ICT-based food tracing systems; signal analysis and data mining. Microbial profiling will be attained via conventional microbiological analyses in tandem with advanced molecular methods (e.g., NGS-based metagenomics), while spectroscopic profiling will be based on spectral data generated using appropriate rapid, non-invasive methods and sensor devices.
DiTECT recognizes that current food-chains are lacking a complete snapshot view of food safety at the crop/ livestock and finished product levels, and so foresees the development of a cloud-enabled storage system for all data corresponding to different insights of product-specific safety aspects, to be integrated into. The novel food safety services will be demonstrated in four (4) real-world Pilots with the active engagement of 21 EU and 13 CN partners, using real datasets to validate efficiency improvements. The carefully structured work plan embodies a “multi-actor” approach to prototype and validates a ready-for-take-up framework of significant exploitation potential for the agro-food industry.”
Project Partners
- AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, GR, – COORDINATOR
- CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY, UK
- SHANDONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, CN
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II, IT
- WINGS ICT SOLUTIONS INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IKE, GR
- NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, CN
- VIDEOMETER A/S, DK
- TEXNOLOGIES FOTONIKON KAI HLEKTRONIKON SYSTHMATVN AE, GR
- University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, CN
- UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN, IE
- Centaur Technologies I.K.E., GR
- Zhejiang University, CN
- FA FOOD ALLERGENS LAB LTD, CY
- KOTINO A.E.V.E., GR
- FUDAN UNIVERSITY, CN
- UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT, NL
- Ministry of Health of the Republic of Cyprus, CY
- YELLOW SEA FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CHINESE ACADEMY OF FISHERY SCIENCES, CN
- PAPADOPOULOS APOSTOLOS SIA OE, GR
- YIOTIS ANONIMOS EMPORIKI & VIOMIXANIKI ETAIREIA, GR
- INSTITUTE OF QUALITY STANDARDS & TESTING TECHNOLOGY FOR AGROPRODUCTS ( IQSTAP) CHINESE ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES (CAAS), CN
- ELLINIKOS GEORGIKOS ORGANISMOS – DIMITRA EL
- ADIV ASSOCIATION FR
- CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY CN
- WIRELESSINFO CZ
- ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS EL
- Zhejiang Gongshang University CN
- INNEWS CYPRUS LIMITED CY
- KERRY INGREDIENTS (IRELAND) LIMITED IE
- SICHUAN UNIVERSITY CN
- Shandong New Hope Liuhe Limited Liability Company CN
- NEMIS TECHNOLOGIES AG CH
- Shandong Minhe Biological Technology CO., LTD CN
- Inner Mongolia Kerchin Cattle Industry Co., Ltd CN