French Research Institute of Organic Farming

- non-profit research institute

- organic farmers’ association

SOME FIGURES…

A 30 years’ experience

Close partnership:

7 experimental sites in OF,

2 regional research centers

600 free technical

booklets on line

40 projects implemented

for the last 10 years

800 participants/year to

national conferences

MAIN ACTIVITIES

NETWORKING

RESEARCH DISSEMINATION

ITAB initiates, coordinates and

implements:

- innovative research programmes,

- on-farm experimentation networks

ITAB gives priority to transfering

knowledge into practice, through:

- Conferences

- Publications

- website

… more than 500

stakeholders involved in the

organic sector. (researchers, farmers, advisors,

teachers, SMEs...)

ITAB plays a central

role by

connecting…

FOCUS ON

Field

crops

Animal

husbandry

Vegetable

crops

Perennial

crops

Productions

Thematic

topics Agronomy Plants

health

Seeds &

breeding Quality

From organic farming to organic food

A scientific and technical partnership involving :

- Food industries through ACTIA network (French network of food technology

institutes), Technical centre and organic trade association

- Organic Food and Farming

- Education and training centres

- Other RMT (interdisciplinary scientific and technical network) involved in ACTIA

and ACTA (French Agricultural Technical Coordination Association)

A place of synergy and

expertise sharing

• Build tools and methods for food industries

• Develop research programs

• Design communication and training tools

Objectives

WP 1 – FORMULATION

WP 2 – PROCESSES

WP 3 – CONSUMERS EXPECTATIONS

WP 4 – DISSEMINATION

WP 1 - FORMULATION of processed

organic food :

high « naturalness » products

Compliance with

IFOAM principles,

industry needs

and consumer

expectations

Inventory

of inputs

Identify gaps

Search

alternatives

Research

programs

WP 2 – PROCESSES of

organic food :

Assesment and proposals

Inventory of

processes Assesment

criteria

Environment

Regulation

Energy

Health

others

Research

programs

WP 2 – PROCESSES of organic food :

Assesment and proposals

VS

microbiological

load & ecology

Assesment

&

consequences

Food

processing

WP 2 – PROCESSES of organic food :

Assesment and proposals

Cleaning and sanitizing

WP 3 – Identify gaps between consumer expectations

and characteristics of organic food

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perception du pain bio au levain

coordonnée par Bernard Onno .

Une étude générale sur la

des consommateurs Français des

produits bio transformés

WP 4 – Dissemination

Results from research project, guidelines, studies…

Links with other networks

Expected results and remaining questions :

- Identify which additive can cause pb (from every side)

- How to assess process (methodology)

- better definition of careful processing (or at least a better

understanding of impact of processing)

- What can we expect from organic food ? Could we expect the same

shelf life as traditionnal processed food ? The same kind of product

(ultra-processed) ? The same (poor) diversity of product ?

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Caractéristiqu

es

Indicateurs existants à hiérarchiser Pistes d’indicateurs à créer / pistes Référents

Sécurité

sanitaire

- Critères microbio

- Pesticides à comparer aux LMR,

- Mycotoxines

- OGM

- Nanoparticules dans emballage

- Migration des emballages

- DLC (lien à faire avec circuits de distribution et position consommateur (attente/dlc

longue et rencontre de pb de DLC) + risque de gaspillage)

- Allergènes (?)

- Métaux lourds, PCB, dioxines, néoformés, nitrates (?)

- Résidus de pdts vétérinaires

- Migration des emballages (lien propack)

- Ecologie microbienne des produits transformés

Bio (antibiorésistance, caractéristique des

souches microbiennes en Bio,..)

- Potentiel rédox (liquides)

RMT

Quasaprove

RMT Qualima ?

Apports

nutritionnels

- SAIN, LIM

- Acides aminés (PD-CAAS) : qualité de sprotéines

- Quantité et qualité des acides gras

- Antioxydants

- Ratio de nutriments (w6/w3, P/L, Na/K…)

- Index glycémique

- Biodisponibilité / Bioaccessibilité

- Profil du régime : lien Bionutrinet. Quel indicateur à définir ?

- Métabolomique

- SAIN, LIM modifié (plus global si pesticides et

autres ci dessus), sinon Sain/Lim nut avec

antioxydants, choix des minéraux.

RMT

Nutriprevius

Qualité

sensorielle

- DLUO

- Arômes utilisés

RMT Sensorialis

Impacts

environnemen

taux

- Bilan carbone

- Pesticides

- Ressource eau

- Impact de l’emballage

- ACV (limiter le champ d’action à la transformation)

RMT Ecoval

Enjeux socio-

économiques

- Nature des relations entre acteurs de la filière (partenariale ?)

- Prix (construction tout au long de la filière : variation en fonction des circuits de

distribution)

- Simplicité de la recette (à préciser)

- Type de procédé utilisé (lien procédés innovants)

- Conditions de travail des producteurs

- Pratiques salariales

- Proximité (différentes dimensions) entre producteurs et consommateurs?

Transversal objectives :

1) Identification consumer expectations concerning organic products

2) Current and objective characterization of organic products

3) Enhancing the relevance between consumer expectations and the intrinsic

qualities of organic products

Reporting :

• Summaries of current knowledge: - Consumer expectations regarding organic products, - Characteristics of organic products (safety, nutritional value, sensory

qualities, environmental questions, socio-economic issues), • Recommendations of work under-treated, • Analysis of the relevance between consumer expectations and characteristics of

organic products, • Optimization of adequacy: - Improved characteristics of organic products - Improved / adaptation assessment and displays tools to characteristics

of organic products • Connection with consumer typologies

Line 3 – Enhancing the relevance between consumer expectations

and characteristics of organic products

Implicated partners

- PROCESSING OF ORGANIC PRODUCTS

Objectives :

• Promotion results of each line of the RMT

• Combine results for propose review documents toward education centres and

companies

• Propose and et organize events to promote RMT results

Reporting :

• Technical guides

• Training tools concerning transformed organic products

• Events, meetings, …

• Publications

• Newsletter

Line 4 – PROMOTION of the results

Implicated partners

- PROCESSING OF ORGANIC PRODUCTS

Question

soulevées :

durée de vie,

environement,

pesticides…,

health

Careful

processsing

…