MoniQA (Monitoring and Quality Assurance in the Food Supply Chain) is an EU funded Network of Excellence aiming to make food safer by harmonising worldwide food quality and safety monitoring and control strategies.
MoniQA (full title: Towards harmonisation of analytical methods for monitoring food quality and safety in the food supply chain) seeks to establish long-lasting cooperation amongst leading research institutions, industrial partners, and the small- and medium-sized businesses that dominate European food manufacture and retail in order to ensure food quality and safety for consumers.
By implementing joint research programmes and promoting exchanges of researchers, the project partners hope to develop solutions that will be well accepted by consumers, manufacturers, and regulatory bodies as well as other groups involved in the food chain. Significantly, researchers will also investigate the food quality and safety implications of new processing technologies, to identify future research needs.
MoniQA will allow participants to work together in areas other than research, including training. It will also mean that knowledge as well as equipment and personnel can be shared globally among the partners.
In the long term, the consortium hopes that the project will form the basis of a global network of food safety and quality experts, which will continue to exist long after the initial project has come to an end.
For more information about what MoniQA is doing please visit the activities section.
- MoniQA focuses on validation of and setting performance criteria/requirements for methods used to analyse foods and food products for safety and quality with the main focus being on rapid methods and their applicability and reliability in routine testing.
- MoniQA seeks to establish long‐lasting cooperation amongst leading research institutes, industrial partners and the small‐and medium‐sized businesses in food and retail in order to ensure food quality and safety for consumers.
- Researchers from around the world have been involved right from the start in 2007 and the network is constantly growing.
- In the long‐term the MoniQA consortium hopes that the project will form the basis of a sustainable global network of food safety and quality experts. The project is coordinated by ICC – International Association for Cereal Science and Technology.
MoniQA (full title: Towards harmonisation of analytical methods for monitoring food quality and safety in the food supply chain) seeks to establish long-lasting cooperation amongst leading research institutions, industrial partners, and the small- and medium-sized businesses that dominate European food manufacture and retail in order to ensure food quality and safety for consumers.
By implementing joint research programmes and promoting exchanges of researchers, the project partners hope to develop solutions that will be well accepted by consumers, manufacturers, and regulatory bodies as well as other groups involved in the food chain. Significantly, researchers will also investigate the food quality and safety implications of new processing technologies, to identify future research needs.
MoniQA will allow participants to work together in areas other than research, including training. It will also mean that knowledge as well as equipment and personnel can be shared globally among the partners.
In the long term, the consortium hopes that the project will form the basis of a global network of food safety and quality experts, which will continue to exist long after the initial project has come to an end.
For more information about what MoniQA is doing please visit the activities section.
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