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Good Food: Good Food: Overview…Overview…

The GoodFoodGoodFood project is a Integrated Project presentedwithin the IST thematic area of EC VI FP and aims at developing the new generation of analytical methods

based on Micro and Nanotechnology (MST and M&NT) solutions for the safety and quality assurance along the food chain in the agrofood industry. Current and future

concerns related to agrofood safety and quality will increasingly require a multidisciplinary and universal

approach based on the massive use of simple detection systems able to be used “near to the foodstuff”.

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Good Food: Good Food: …… Overview…Overview…

The technology used nowadays to assess food safety andquality relies on lab solutions that are bulky, costly,

punctual and time consuming. On the contrary,GoodFood GoodFood approach will comply, through the

development of innovative M&NT solutions, with theneeds of ubiquity, low cost and low power, fast

response, simple use andfully interconnection to the decisional bodies.

A multidisciplinary integration of know-how andtechnology is required for addressing the broad

requirements of the agrofood field.

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An Integrated Project is proposed to keepsuch a global view. The Project aims at the

vertical integration of Micro and NanoTechnologies from the land to the market.

The main demands identified by theagrofood sector will be the applications

that will drive the technologicaldevelopments within GoodFoodGoodFood.

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The need for increasing the control of products atdifferent critical steps of the food chain (control of

raw materials, improvement of food processing,monitoring of storage and logistics, and control of

safety and quality of final products) will be addressedby GoodFoodGoodFood with a vertical and horizontal integration

of food, bio, and electronics experience fordeveloping a set of systems with clear breakthrough

solutions to specific safety and quality and traceabilityrequirements.

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Good Food: Good Food: …… OverviewOverview

The proposed solutions will be also integrated under anAmbient Intelligence approach, which will allow fullyinterconnection and communication of multisensing

systems. The technological developments withinGoodFoodGoodFood are driven by the main demands identified

by the agrofood sector, and they are focused into anumber of relevant food targets. The M&NT inspired

solutions developed therein are foreseen as thestepping-stones of the long term GoodFoodGoodFood vision:

‘bringing the lab to the food stuff from theland to the market.'

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Good Food: Good Food: Objectives…Objectives…

Overall GoodFoodGoodFood objectives are: - to demonstrate to the agrofood sector actors (final consumers included) the advantages driven to the complete food chain control by the use of Micro&Nanotechnology inspired systems- to develop and integrate such systems with improved performances compared to the state of the art - to introduce the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) paradigm in the agrofood chain by developing a vineyard pilot site and by applying the results to the activities of all quality and safety technical solutions of the project.

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Good Food: Good Food: … Objectives…… Objectives…

Within this framework, GoodFoodGoodFood aims at developingthe new generation of analytical methods based on

Micro and Nanotechnology (MST and M&NT)solutions for the safety and quality assurance alongthe food chain in the agrofood industry. Current and

future concerns related to agrofood safety and qualitywill increasingly require a multidisciplinary and

universal approach based on the massive use of simpledetection systems able to be used near to the foodstuff.

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The technology used nowadays to assess food safetyand quality relies in lab solutions that are bulky,

costly, punctual and time consuming. On thecontrary, GoodFoodGoodFood approach will comply with

the needs of ubiquity, fast response, low cost,simple use and fully interconnection to the

decisional bodies. Long term GoodFood visionis to bring the ‘lab to the foodstuff from the land

to the market'

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GoodFoodGoodFood aims at increasing awareness at different levels: - To the citizens: To show that Ambient Intelligence (AmI) and ubiquitous sensing can help on increasing food safety and quality. -To the Agrofood Community: To demonstrate advantages of the MST, AmI and wireless solutions for new and/or current analytical tools and test methodologies, as well as their impact on improved farming. -To the Microsystems industrial community: To show that Agrofood is a good niche market for MST solutions.

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Good Food: Good Food: … Objectives… Objectives

- To the SME and foundries: To develop demonstrators and market plans that show viability and lower the risks of future market access- To the MST scientific community: To give a path for take-ups, start-ups. A multidisciplinary integration of know-how and technology is required for addressing the broad requirements of the agrofood field. A suitable scenario was identified by the agrofood community for keeping such a global view.

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Good Food: Good Food: Achievements…Achievements…

The GoodFoodGoodFood Partnership have identified the technical achievements necessary to get the objectives of project:

I) Technology solutions for the detection of antibiotics residues

To develop a portable system for future application in fast antibiotic screening inmilk at the point of demand (farm, collection truck or dairy). The system will bebased on a fluorescent optical biosensor device based on evanescent wavesand combined with a microfluidics system (with a disposable element) for samplepreparation. The integration within an AmI scenario will be also pursued.

II) Microsystems Technology solutions for the rapid detection of pesticides

To design and develop innovative immunodiagnostic microarray devices for rapid atline assessment of pesticides in wine processing operations. To develop instrumentation and automated liquid handling systems compatible with the microarray devices. To address the pesticide traceability issue within the wine production process. To assess the role of the immunodiagnostic microarray within the AmI scenario.

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Good Food: Good Food: … Achievements…… Achievements…III) Microsystems Technology solutions for rapid detection of Toxigenic Fungi & Mycotoxins

To develop microsystems technology solutions for the rapid detection of toxigenic fungi and mycotoxins by natural bioreceptors, artificial receptors technology and nano-electrode devices. To enable simple recognition and transduction of the presence of mycotoxins and DNA arrays for toxigenic fungi in land raw materials and processed foods. To integrate the developed sensors for an implementation of scenario concept in the Ambient Intelligent approach taken as model.

IV) Microsystems Technology solutions for the rapid detection of viable foodborne pathogens

To develop and characterise different sensors, which are based on innovativeDNA sensing technologies for the direct and real time measurement of targetDNA sequences of pathogens present in the food matrix. The most suitablesensors devices and microfluidics capabilities will be incorporated in a finalportable system. Suitable instrumentation will be developed for appropr iatesoftware and microcontroller functions. Generic packaging and interconnectsolutions will be discussed in order to streamline the sensor developed here forlater use for implementation of scenario concepts in the Ambient Intelligentapproach.

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Good Food: Good Food: … Achievements…… Achievements…

V) Multisensing Microsystems integration for food quality control

To develop new Advanced Intelligent Multisensing Microsystems capable to workas E-Nose and E-Tongue and arranged for future integration into a single intelligentsystem in order to simultaneously combine olfactive and taste effect making use ofdifferent chemical microsensors array. The combination of the different sensorsand techniques set-up for the special agrofood application will allow to improvethe Quality Assurance for different foodstuff. At different stages of the food chain.The systems will be integrated by keeping in mind the requirements of an AmbientIntelligence Approach.

VI) Multisensing Microsystems for Logistics food control

To develop a dedicated microsystem for logistics food surveillance, by means of aflexible substrate implementation of multisensing systems. These multisensingsystems will be based either on solid-state gas sensors or IR-gas sensing system.A benchmark between both systems will be performed as well as the combinationof both sensing principles in order to overcome their main drawbacks. Theimplementation of AmI solutions will be investigated.

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VII) Ambient Intelligence

To apply the AmI concept in the selected agrofood field. It is aimed to guaranteesecurity, quality and reliability of a complete food-chain (from land to market).Thisgoal will be achieved by the integration of the information acquired by sensorsat each step of the food-chain in a large-scale distributed, heterogeneous andintegrated platform for service provision. This includes analytical micro-systems,distributed databases, intelligent and intuitive systems and interfaces, able tosupport the assessment and information spreading of healthiness and qualityof food. The impact to both the production process and final customer in termsof quality and traceability will be evaluated both technically and economically.

VIII) Dissemination and Training, Exploitation and Demonstration

To increase the awareness of the Agrofood key actors on the advantages of theMST based solutions for the safety and quality assurance. For supporting thedissemination and demonstration activities planned for such purpose, a marketstudy will be also carried out in order to better identify needs, and potential nichesfor the proposed applications.

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