METROFOOD project for Research Infrastructure

Proposal for the 2016 ESFRI Roadmap

ESFRI Domain: Health & Food

How traceability can unlock the potential of the agrifood sector in the EU

Espace Banca Monte Paschi Belgio 18th November 2015 – Brussels

Giovanna Zappa METROFOOD Proposal Coordinator

Measurements

Metrology for Food Quality & Safety

Reference Materials

Reference Methods

Reference Laboratories

METROLOGY for the Agrofood Sector

Quality control

Official controls

Exposure evaluation

Prevention Authenticity

Valorisation of raw materials and products

Innovation

Food Quality & Safety

R&TD

Traceability

Food composition

Characterisation of Food Contact

Materials

Quality markers

Contaminants

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Health data

Toxicological studies

Environmental analysis

Data integration and management

The Mission of METROFOOD-RI

To enhance scientific

excellence in the field of food

quality & safety

To strengthen scientific

knowledge, promoting scientific

cooperation and integration

To enhance quality and reliability of

measurement results

To make available and

share data, information and

metrological tools

METROFOOD-RI

Physical-RI e-RI

RM Preparation

Stability and homogeneity

studies

Sampling, pretreatment and storage

Food composition and characterization

Inorganic contaminants

Organic contaminants

Chemical and biological markers and profiles

Microbiological analysis

Development of sensors and devices

Environmental Analysis

Testing (rheological, leaching, etc.)

Other

Experimental fields/farms

Crop production

Animal breeding

Fish farms

Facilities for food processing and storage

Industrial processing

Packaging

Supply chain and storage

Food preparation

e-RI

The Physical-RI

Food

Physical-RI

Analytical Labs.

Plants and Labs for RM development

Metro

POTENTIAL ACTIVITIES of the Physical-RI

development and characterization of new Reference Materials

organization and management of Interlaboratory Tests

development and validation of new analytical methods and devices for the agrofood sector

identification of chemical and biological markers (of origin, quality, safety)

Metro

production of raw materials for developing “driven” RMs

collection of data for food composition databases

conduction of experimental studies for evaluating nutritional value and contaminant contents of foods produced in different geographic regions and with different technologies

evaluation of exposure through diet

evaluation of benefits and risks related to the application of new technologies in food production and packaging giving emphasis to nanotechnologies

Food

Software development

development of new databases

Integration of existing

databases

graphical interfaces

development

database manteinance and updating

Data collection

Reference Materials

Official and Reference Methods

Reference Laboratories

Vocabularies, Guidelines and procedures

PTs Providers

Food composition

Contaminants in food

Food markers

Characteristics of production areas and technologies

Data analysis

Management of Interlaboratory

tests

Diffusion and Training

Hardware allocation

Food consumption

Food

Physical-RI

Metro e-RI

The e-RI

e-RI POTENTIAL ACTIVITIES

to find out in a single web-site - starting from the analyte (measurand) and the matrix all the available information for standardizing and harmonizing food analyses (Reference Materials, Official Methods, Reference or Threshold values, Reference Laboratories, Proficiency Testing Providers; Quality Assurance Strategies)

To disseminate information and training on terminology, metrological tools, principles, and procedure

to collect information about the needs in the different Member States (and Associated) Countries about metrology for food and nutrition

to collect data on food composition, nutritional contents and levels of contaminants and emerging concerns in foods produced in different geographic regions and by applying different technologies

NETWORKING SHARING, INTEGRATION AND HARMONIZATION OF DATA and INFORMATION

Agro Processing

NEW TOOLS (Reference Materials&Methods)

External DATA

Packaging Preparation

EVALUATION of FOOD PRACTICES and PROCESSES

Agrifood, Seafoodd, Beverage and Wildfood

NEW DATA

Links between Physical and electronic Infrastrucure

Physical-RI

Food

DEVELOPMENT and VALIDATION of NEW

MEASUREMENTS TOOLS

Metro

e-RI

Involved Countries

Partners

Interested in a future inclusion in the partnership or cooperation

Political endorsements from different Ministries

• Scientific Research and

Innovation (Romania)

• Academy of Sciences -

Moldavia

• National Research Council

Ministry of Science and

Technology - Portugal

• Education, Youth and Sports -

Czech Republic

• Culture, Education and Religious

Affairs - Greece

• Metrology Institute of Republic of

Slovenia

EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

• Economic development - Italy

• Development - Turkey

• Economy and Competitiveness

- Spain

ECONOMY

• Austria

• Italy

• Republic of Macedonia

HEALTH

• Agriculture, Agrifood and

Forestry - France

AGRICULTURE

EU Countries financial commitment Economic endorsement: Italy – Ministry of Economic Development Portugal - National Research Council FCT Ministry of Science and Technology Romania - National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation

We have very good perspectives to obtain additional financial commitments from other European Countries joining METROFOOD-RI. We foresee the possibility to obtain the economic endorsement both from some Countries that already gave the political one (e.g.: Czech Republic, Turkey, Macedonia) and from new Countries (e.g.: The Netherland, Hungary)

CULS will apply, within a National Consortium, to the Czech National Roadmap of Research Infrastructures of Strategic Relevance, so as to include Metrology in Food and Nutrition in the National priorities and to earmark funds in support to the development and operation of METROFOODRI activities (2016)

Possibility to obtain additional commitment also from other Ministries

METROFOOD Partnership

Research Institutes

•ENEA (IT) •CIDETEC (ES) •IBA (RO) •TUBITAK (TR) •ISPHTA (MD) •RIKILT Vageningen UR (NL) •Jozef Stefan Institute (SI) •National Institute of Biology (SI)

Universities

•Udine, Brescia (IT)

•AUTH (GR)

•CULS (CZ)

•Pau (FR)

•SZU (HU)

•TUM (DE)

•Primorska (SI)

•Skopje (MK)

National Metrology Institutes

•LNE (FR)

•INRIM (IT)

•MIRS(SI)

Food Safety and Health Protection Institutes

• ISS, IZS, IEO (IT) • INSA (PT) • ANSES (FR) • AGES (AT) • PHI (MK) • EVIRA (FI)

Food Inspection Laboratories

• UT2A (FR) Private Companies

• Whirlpool R&D

International Organisations

• FAO

Endorsements from International Organisations

International

Measurement Confederation

EU JRC-Institute

for Reference

Materials and Measurements

European Union

Reference Laboratory

for Chemical Elements in Food of Animal Origin Versailles Project on

Advanced Materials and Standards

Food and Agriculture

Organization of the United Nations

12 Federations of Food&Beverage Industries

SPread European Safety

Global level of METROFOOD

USA

Brasile

Russia

South Africa Argentina

Korea China

Japan

Promoting internationalization and favoring exports

Strengthening the image of Europe as country careful regarding health, consumers’ needs, food quality & safety

Enhancing the image of European products

Promoting free trade by enhancing quality and safety for consumers Comparing application

standards and achieving common standards

promoting a common approach also on issues of bilateral trade agreements and international standards (e.g.: Transatlantic trade and investment-partnership - TTIP - between EU and USA)

METROFOOD-RI: Hub and Nodes

PT

Node

GR

Node

SP

Node

CZ

Node

FRNode

ITNode

RO

Node

HU

Node

MO

NodeTR

Node

CULS

LNE

LCABIE/PREM

UT2A

ANSES

IBA

USZ TUBITAK

ISPHTA

FAO

ISS

IZS

IEO

UniUD

UniBS

Whirlpool

INSA

CIDETEC AUTH

ENEA

CentralHub(IT)

Headquarter

NL

Node

INRIM

RIKILT

MK

Node

PHI

SKOPJEUn.

SI

Node

MIRS

JSI

MIRS

NIB

Partners of the Italian Node 1/2

Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) - is the National Focal Point of the European Food Safety Authority in technical and scientific matter and site of WHO Collaborating Centres, the FAO Reference Center for Veterinary Public Health, EU-Reference Laboratories for Chemical Elements in Food of Animal Origin, Escherichia Coli and Parasites and several National Reference Laboratories (NRLs) for Residues and Contaminants in food and feeds such as the NRL for mycotoxins.

Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise (IZS-AM) is one of the ten Italian Zooprophylactic Institutes that operate within the Ministry of Health network. It is national reference centre for various specialisations (dioxin testing, training, brucellosis, exotic disease, etc) and its laboratories are accredited according to ISO 17025 with over 260 test methods accredited.

Italian National Institute of Metrology (INRIM) - INRIM is the national public body with the task of carrying out and promoting scientific research in metrology. INRIM carries out studies and researches on the realization of primary standards for the basic and derived units of the International System of units (SI), assures the maintenance of such standards, their international comparison and in general provides measurements traceability to the SI. In addition to physical and engineering metrology, its main R&D areas are in fundamental physical constants, materials, metrology for chemistry, nanotechnology, innovation, quantum information and artificial vision.

ENEA is the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development. ENEA performs Scientific Research and Technological Development and provides agency services in support to public administrations, public and private enterprises, and citizens. ENEA carried out pioneer activities on Metrology in Chemistry and Biology and in and in recent years he has played a key role in the development of metrology for the agro-industrial sector. The BIOAG Division has developed facilities for Reference Materials production and actively contributes to the creation of strategies and development priorities of large aggregations as the Technological Platform Food for Life, the National Technolgy Cluster AgriFood and the KIC FoodBest.

Partners of the Italian node 2/2

The European Institute of Oncology (IEO) is one of Italy’s 45 research hospitals and treatment centres with research laboratories and clinical services. The Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics is responsible for the Food Composition Database for Epidemiological Studies in Italy (BDA).

The Department of Medical and Biological Science of University of Udine (DSMB) since 2004 collaborates with the IEO for the compilation and management of the Food Composition Database for epidemiological studies in Italy (BDA-IEO) (www.bda-ieo.it). Food Science Dept cooperates with regulamentary bodies (e.g. International Olive Oil, Italian Ministry of Agriculture, Italian Ministry of Industry) in method development.

Chemistry for Technologies Laboratory (Chem4Tech - www.chem4tech.it) is member of AFL network. Chem4Tech mission is the development and assessment of experimental and theoretical tools for studying materials at the micro and nanoscale. In the frame of Health & Wealth program, Chem4Tech has developed new techniques and protocols for the elemental analysis of environmental and biological matrices. In particular, a new non destructive method to analyze filters by TXRF has been patented.

Brescia University

Whirlpool R&D S.r.l. is a newly established Italian subsidiary of Whirlpool Corporation with about 80 specialized researchers engaged in research activities on materials, product engineering, technologies of storage and cooking of food and advanced electronic.

Further Expressions of interest from:

JPI - HDHL A roadmap for harmonized and

structured research efforts in the

area of food, nutrition, health and

physical activity.

KIC-Food4Future

The objective is to ensure a more efficient and effective food supply chain system, while improving the sustainability and traceability in

all parts of this chain.

Research Programmes

(FP, H2020)

e.g. KBBE, ERANET, EMPIR

In the field of Food & Nutrition

since 2008 there were funded

19 projects with a budget of

96,815,381 €

EIP "European Innovation Partnership" EIP-AGRI Focus Group "Short Food Supply Chain”

European Technology Platforms • Food For Life • Manufuture • Suschem

Develop research and innovation agendas and roadmaps for action at EU and national level to be supported by both private and public funding

The objective is to ensure a more efficient and effective food supply chain system, while improving the sustainability and traceability in all parts of this chain.

JPI - FACCE Research to support sustainable agricultural production and

economic growth.

Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) (Italy, Portugal, Romania, France, Spain, Greece, The Netherland, Hungary)

Free services

Information services

Database querying

Guidelines

On line courses

Research of partners/Networking

Paid Services

Reference Materials supplying (traditional, innovative, custom)

PT management

Development of new methods and analytical devices

Food analysis and agroecosystem characterization

Optimization of food processing, storing and preparation

Courses and Training services

Use of facilities (laboratories, plants, farms)

Services from METROFOOD

METROFOOD Scientific Services

Private Companies

Citizens/ Consumers

Scientific community

Public and

Government

FoodCompanies

Government

ResearchCommunityConsumers

ü Coordina onü Integra onü Knowledgedevelopmentü TechnologyTransfer

The benefits of METROFOOD-RI

• Permitting more

efficient food control

• Improving safety and

healthiness of production

• Supporting environmental

Policy and sustainable

development

• Development of

competences and skills

• Implementation of new

technologies

• Risk/benefit analysis

• Defining best practices

• Promoting the integration of knowledge

• Enforcement of consumers’ trust

• Provision of information and

knowledge to make

conscious

and reliable choices

• Strengthening internationalization, export and trade

• Building competitiveness on

objective bases

• Bringing added value FBOs Consumers

Society Scientific Community

Establishment of a virtuous cycle of

demand and supply of increasingly healthier and sustainable food

positive impact on the European market

positive impact on citizens' health

prevent food crises

Thank you for your attention!

Giovanna Zappa ENEA – SSPT-BIOAG C.R. Casaccia - ROMA giovanna.zappa@enea.it