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TRACE
Acronym for: Tracing the origin of food
Contract No: FP6-2003-FOOD-2-A. Proposal no. 006942
Duration: 01.01.2005-31.12.2009 (60 months)
Project size: 55
Partners, ~19 Mio. €
Organisation: European Commission Research Project
Program: FP6: Food
Quality and Safety
Project-website: www.trace.eu.org
Project description: TRACE aims to improve the health and
well-being of European citizens by developing specific traceability systems
that will trace the origin of food and animal feed products. This will enhance
consumer confidence in the authenticity of food. Natural tracers such as trace
elements, ratios of heavy (geo) and light (bio) isotopes and genetic markers
will be measured to determine geographical, species and production origin.
The project will focus on meat, cereals, honey, olive oil and mineral water.
Particular attention will be paid to commodities labelled as "Designated Origin"
and "Organic". TRACE will develop and draft standardized XML-schemes for coding
and information exchange and establish "Good Traceability Practice".
MolSpec-ID
Acronym for: Development of Methods to Identify Plant and
Animal Species in Foods
Contract No: QLK1-CT-2001-02373
Duration: 01.12.2001-30.11.2004 (36 months)
Project size: 14
Partners, 3'109'579 €
EC contribution: 1'395'074 €
Organisation: European Commission Research Project
Program: FP5: Quality
of life and management of living resources
Project-website: www.molspec.org
Project description: The goal of the MolSpec-ID-project is
the development of Molecular detection methods to identify
specific plant and animal Species in foods, e.g. meat from
goat/sheep, duck/turkey/chicken, pig/beef or ingredients from soybean or several
nut-species. This is important to discover fraudulent replacement of food
components and to avoid adverse reaction to unexpected food ingredients.
Links: Test the public version of the MolSpec-database.
(Full public release scheduled for 01.01.2006).
GMOchips
Acronym for: New technology in food sciences facing the multiplicity
of new released GMO
Contract No: G6RD-CT2000-00419
Duration: 01.01.2001-31.12.2003 (36 months), extended until
31.10.2004
Project size: 7
Partners, 1'943'705 €
EC contribution: 1'090'000 €
Organisation: European Commission Research Project
Program: FP5: Competitive
and sustainable Growth
Project-website: www.gmochips.org
Project description: The goal of the GMOchips-project is
the development of biochips to detect Genetically Modified
Organisms (GMOs) in food, e.g. different varieties of corn,
soybean or sugar beat. Reliable detection methods are essential for the labelling
of GMO concerned food and for the control at the EU borders.
DMIF-GEN
Acronym for: Detection of Methods
to identify Foods produced by means of Genetic
Engineering
Contract No: SMT4-CT96-2072
Duration: 01.10.1996-30.09.1999 (36 months)
Project size: 26
Partners, 2'047'359 €
EC contribution: 1'197'485 €
Organisation: European Commission Research Project
Program: FP4: Fourth
Framework Programme
Project-website: www.dmif-gen.bats.ch
Project description: Development of detection methods to
identify foods produced by means of genetic engineering, e.g. tomatoes, soybean
or corn, mostly through the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). Development of
a Database to collect Informations on these genetically modified foods which
are commercialized, the modified DNA-sequences, suitable primers and probes
for detection, detection methods, and literature about these foods.
Links: DMIF-GEN results on a European Commission site: [Results]
iFOODS
Acronym for: Swiss Food Composition Database
Organisation: Research Project at the Institute
of Scientific Computing in collaboration with the Institute
of Food Science, the Swiss Federal
Office of Public Health and the Food
Industry.
Project-website: http://food.ethz.ch/swifd/
Project description: Development of an Integrated Food Composition
Data Management System paying special attention to food available in Switzerland.
(My part: Development and programming of the SchemaManager to extend the available
set of properties used in food, component, data source and method description.
1999-2000).
Links: [Project
description (in German)] [iFOODS-documentation
(PDF, in English)]
Design
For All
Acronym for: Development of Competence about Accessibility
and Didactic Design
Duration: 2003-2005
Organisation: Research project of the University of Applied
Sciences of Central Switzerland (FHZ) and
the Lucerne University of Arts and Design (HGKL)
2003-2004. Similar project at the ETH
Web Office, ETH Zurich, 1998-1999.
Project-website: www.design4all.ch
Project description: The goal of the project "Design
For All" is to make aware of the design of and the need for accessible
websites. A second step will be the development of a prototype that will help
people with no disabilities to understand what a person with disabilities
experiences once he tries to access inaccessible websites. Quality criteria,
design theories of inclusive design and user-centered design processes will
be applied escorting the design process of this prototype.
ThermoProt
Acronym for: Temperature-Adaptation of Proteins
Duration: 1996-1998
Organisation: Research Project at the Institute
of Scientific Computing and the Institute
of Molecular Biology and Biophysics of the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology, ETH Zurich.
Project-website: www.thermoprot.degonda.com
Project description: Development of software to calculate
structural and energetic basis of the temperature-adaptation of protein-sequences.
