About MoniQA (Monitoring and Quality Assurance in the Food Supply Chain)

We can buy food from all around the world but is it safe to eat? To protect our health and ensure food is safe and of high quality, we need reliable tools and methods to assess the foods we eat. Funded by the European Union, MoniQA brings together 33 organisations from around the world that are working together to help food manufacturers, retail outlets and regulatory bodies to cope with the challenges posed by a globalised food economy. In particular, MoniQA is establishing common methods and standards in food analysis.

MoniQA in a nutshell:

  • Scientists from around the globe
  • Harmonising global food quality and safety monitoring
  • Adding value to the food chain to ensure consumer confidence
  • Ensuring effective and efficient food quality and safety regulations within the EU and worldwide

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New Publication: Allergen Management in the Food Industry

This book, which includes a contribution co-authored by several MoniQA partners, comprehensively addresses the sources of allergenic contaminants in foods, their fate during processing, and the specific measures that need to be taken to minimize their occurrence in foods.

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MoniQA at the 6th Food Science International Symposium

MoniQA was introduced and represented at this 3 day symposium by Karl Beler from BOKU (University of Natural Resources and Life Science, Vienna, Austria). The symposium was organized by "The International Association for Cereal Science and Technology (ICC)", the "Beijing Food and Research Institute (BFRI)" and the "Food Science Editorial Department (FSED)" and took place in Beijing, China from August 5-7, 2010.

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MoniQA at ESOF2010 – with a passion for food science

What is in our food and how does it affect our health and life? Is what we are eating safe? Is it of good quality? That was the theme for the seminar MoniQA arranged together with eight other EU projects in CommNet during EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) in Turin in July.

 Professor Adriana Maggi from the University of Milan spoke about European baby food, which is in general of a very high quality but questions remains concerning soy-based baby food: what will happen in long term when feeding babies with high oestrogen food?

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New MoniQA Newsletter published

The third MoniQA newsletter highlights key achievements of the project in the last year, such as our activities on food authenticity, the MoniQA HACCP survey, Allergen Detection, socio-economic analysis of stock market responses to food safety regulations and many other items.

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MoniQA methods database now open

The MoniQA project now offers its Associated Partners and selected stakeholders free access to the MoniQA methods database. This database has been launched and tested extensively within the core consortium. We are now ready to offer it to an audience of selected stakeholders.

What is the MoniQA methods database?

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