- Identification of legislation / regulation harmonisation issues within the EU and between the EU and trading countries.
- Method database: collection of validated methods that are currently used to detect the authenticity of the following commodities:
* dairy products (milk, butter, cheese, yoghurt, ice cream)
* cereals and cereal products (wheat and barley, pasta and semolina,
basmati rice)
* rice
* wine and alcoholic beverages (beer)
* meat and meat products (meat spreads and pâtés; salami & sausages;
smoked products vs liquid smoke added meat)
* fish and fish products
* honey
* vegetable oils and fats
- Establishment of validation guidelines for qualitative methods applicable in the various fields of application.
- Interaction & meetings with stakeholders from industry / companies.
- Contacts with relevant CEN/AOAC/CODEX/ISO/FAO committees and/or contacts with commodity specific umbrella organisations (such as the International Honey Commission, European Quality Control System for Juices and Nectars from Fruit & Vegetables) to collect further information, to sensitize them on what the WG is doing and on the problem of methods validation and possibly establish collaborations.
- Strengthening of already existing links between MoniQA and other projects such as TRACE, so that its outcomes may be promoted with a view to harmonising methods at an early stage and sharing authenticity data.
- Work for the input of information collected within the Food Authenticity WG into the MoniQA database.
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