The kick-off meeting on 21 February marked the official launch of the ‘Food production technologies for trans-boundary systems’ project. A total of 18 project partners will work together across borders to ensure that regional food production is sustainable and of high quality.
The kick-off meeting on 21 February marked the official launch of the “Food production technologies for transboundary systems” project. A total of 18 project partners will work together across borders to ensure that regional food production is both sustainable and of high quality. This involves, for example, strengthening consumer protection, reducing water and food waste during production, improving animal welfare and health, and exploring new ways to convert biomass into valuable products. The project partners have a total budget of around 10 million euros at their disposal for this purpose.
From our faculty, Neil Shirtcliffe and Alexander Struck will investigate how spectroscopic methods can be used to determine individual use-by dates for meat products whilst they are still at the abattoir. Ideally, the same method could also be used for quality control in supermarkets. The aim is to prevent food waste caused by use-by dates that are set too short, whilst, of course, ensuring that food safety is not compromised.
The Food Pro·tec·ts project is being carried out as part of the Germany–Netherlands INTERREG programme.
