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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MoniQA Multilingual: Now available in Norwegian and Spanish

June 29, 2009 by spichtinger@rtd...

Our MoniQA leaflet has been translated into many languages by our partners.
The latest additions are Spanish and Norwegian versions.
Go to www.moniqa.org/multilingual to find out more!

Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods: New Issue Published!

June 10, 2009 by spichtinger@rtd...

The June issue of Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods (QAS) is out! QAS is a brand new international journal publishing peer-reviewed scientific primary research papers and review papers in the areas of cereals, grain crops, their quality and issues relating to food safety. This official Journal of ICC and MoniQA is published by Wiley-Blackwell with Stanley Cauvain and Roland Poms as the Joint Editors in Chief. The first issue appeared in March 2009.
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Food Allergens Working Group meets stakeholders in Vienna

The MoniQA Working Group Food Allergens led by Bert Pöpping (Eurofins) and Clare Mills (IFR) invited interested stakeholders from food industry, authorities, consumer organisations and method providers to participate in a special stakeholder event. The event was held in close connection to the EuroPrevall project meeting on May 14, 2009 in Vienna.
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MoniQA presented in Sudan

The MoniQA project was recently presented by John Taylor, ICC President, on behalf of Roland Poms, the coordinator of MoniQA, at the Workshop on Production, Processing and Marketing of Cereals held in Khartoum, Sudan. The workshop was jointly organised by the Cabinet Ministry, the Sudanese Standards & Metrology Organization and the National Sudanese Committee for ICC. It took place on May 10-11, 2009 and brought together key stakeholders from the area.
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Thumbs up for MoniQA

June 3, 2009 by spichtinger@rtd...

In May 2009 the MoniQA project passed its second review by experts on behalf of the European Commission with flying colours. The experts concluded that the project has fully achieved its objectives and goals for the period and has even exceeded expectations. Out of 27 evaluation items MoniQA completely achieved 26 and partially achieved 1. No negative score was given for any item. Comments and suggestions given by the evaluators were integrated into the new work plan for period 3.

MoniQA goes to Denmark

Some 60 participants from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, Austria, Germay, United States and various others attended the first FOODSAFE’09 Symposium in Grenaa, Denmark from 28 – 29 April 2009. MoniQA was presented in the context of improving the reliability of rapid methods by Marcella Gross who presented the recent activities of the project and invited participants to get involved in the project.
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Salmonella most common cause of food poisoning in 2007

May 19, 2009 by spichtinger@rtd...

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) have published their Community Summary Report on Food-borne Outbreaks in the EU in 2007. It shows that Salmonella remained the most common cause of food-borne outbreaks in the European Union, followed by food-borne viruses and Campylobacter. A total of 5,609 outbreaks were reported in 2007, which affected almost 40,000 people and caused 19 deaths. The report is based on a new robust reporting system distinguishing between possible and verified outbreaks.
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New MoniQA Factsheet on the Socio-economics of food quality and safety regulations

May 19, 2009 by spichtinger@rtd...

MoniQA provides support for a systematic assessment of socio-economic impacts of new EU food quality and safety regulations. Impact is evaluated in terms of efficiency, effectiveness, and consistency of application, and with respect to different stakeholders (consumers, industry, regulatory bodies, etc.). The fourth in our series of MoniQA factsheets provides an overview on the results of our socio-economics work package.

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Review: Combined MoniQA FST on reference materials and communication training

Date: 
Mon, 15/06/2009 (All day) – Fri, 19/06/2009 (All day)

MoniQA FST on „Reference materials and method validation in food safety assurance” in combination with MoniQA FST on „Communication training – Presentation skills and introduction to media relations“

Location: BOKU - University of Life Sciences and Natural Resources, Vienna, Austria Organised by BOKU

This combined training event gave participants the opportunity to enhance their expert knowledge as well as their competencies in terms of research management skills.
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