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Food-MetNet - Support for a European Metrology Network on food safety
Projektleitung
	Dr. rer. nat. Roland Becker BAM - 1.7 Organische Spuren- und Lebensmittelanalytik E-Mail: Roland.Becker@bam.de
Förderstruktur
	EU - Europäische Kommission - H2020 - EMPIR - EMPIR Call 2020
Projektbeginn
	01.06.2021
Projektende
	31.05.2024
Projektart
	Realisierte Antragsforschung
Themen-/Aktivitätsfeld
	THEMENFELD Analytical Sciences, * Spurenanalytik und chemische Zusammensetzung
Abstract
	Safe food is a prerequisite for good human health however, currently, almost one in ten people in the world fall ill after eating contaminated food. National governments are critical for enabling and safeguarding the supply of safe food and to do this food safety authorities must manage food safety risks along the entire food chain. The Official Controls Regulation (EU) 2017/625 was put in place to ensure that the application of the food and feed law stipulates the need for validated analytical methods. However, whilst food safety method development and proficiency testing are well established by European Union Reference Laboratory (EURLs) and National Reference Laboratories (NRLs), validation of the measurements involved is currently lacking. This lack of validation is impeding the majority of food safety sectors by promoting distrust in the accuracy of the measurements due to a lack of metrological traceability, certified reference materials and internationally recognised calibration and measurement capabilities. To address these issues a European Metrology Network on Food Safety (EMN-FS) involving the metrology community, reference laboratories and regulatory bodies will be set-up. The future EMN-FS will support the improvement of food safety measurements and help to ensure traceability by linking measurement results to the International System of Units (SI). This project will accelerate and support the set-up of the future EMN-FS and will establish and help to coordinate on-going dialogue between the metrology community and relevant stakeholders, in particular EURLs and NRLs. This dialogue will then be used by this project to (i) identify the metrological needs of these stakeholders, (ii) develop a sustainable knowledge-sharing programme and web-based platform for stakeholders and (iii) develop the roadmaps and strategic research agenda (SRA) needed for future food safety research.