SAFEFOODERASAFEFOODERA

The Nordic Model forCooperation of National Food Safety

Research ProgramsCoordinated by The Nordic InnovationCentre (NICe)Coordinated by The Nordic InnovationCentre (NICe)

Lisbon 23th November 2006Oddur Már Gunnarsson

Coordinator

The Nordic The Nordic InnovationCentre InnovationCentre

(NICe)(NICe)

The Nordic regionThe Nordic regionIcelandIcelandNorwayNorwaySwedenSwedenFinlandFinland

Denmark _ Denmark _

The challengeThe Nordic countries, NCM and NICe are all running research and innovation

programmes on food. The food safety aspect of these research program-mes are fragmented and the funding is both insufficient and sub optimal.

The suggested solution1) A coordinated response towards this challenge by improving co-ordination of the national/regional programmes through networking.2) However, Food Safety is a global challenge, too large to be met by the Nordic countries acting alone.

Global Market

35 million cases of food poisoning within the EU each year, unknown number of deaths (population: 480 million)

76 million illnesses and 5000 deaths in US each year (population: 268 million)

One-third of the populations of developed countries may be effected by food borne illness each year

Only a fraction of outbreaks is reported

The The SAFEFOODERASAFEFOODERA primary objectiveprimary objective

is to establish a European platform for protecting consumers against health from the consumption of food

through a co-ordination action ERA-NET of 15 Member States, 3 Associated Countriesand 3 regional organisations

representing in total 450 million European citizens

The provisional strategic topicsThe provisional strategic topics

1. Emerging risks1. Emerging risks - A potential food or feed borne or diet-related hazard that may become a risk for human health in the (near) future.

2. Risk analysis in food safety2. Risk analysis in food safety - Methodologies in protecting the consumers against health risks and misleading information, including crisis management, consumer perception and risk/benefit analysis.

3. Contaminants3. Contaminants - Health risks from natural- and environmental contaminants in the food chain. 3.1 Process induced risk3.1 Process induced risk - Health risks from chemical pollution formed during processing of foods.

4. Traceability 4. Traceability - Documented and harmonised routines for recall of food products from the value chain - Development of reliable traceability methods and systems.

5. Pathogens5. Pathogens - Pathogen free production systems - From reactive to preventive and predictive actions.

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Contaminants

Pathogens

Emerging risks

Risks analysis

Traceability

Others

Active in topic total 35 answers

111

70

62

48

42

36

23

14

10

74

Campylobacter

Listeria

Salmonella

E.coli

Pathogen free production systems

Clostridium

Food borne viruses

Enterobacter

MAP

Others

Pathogens; 490 projects

359273

272137135

112

10387

8072

5650

222

Chemical analysis

Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, Metabonomic

Surveillance

Predictive microbiology

Genetic of microbes

Statistics and modelling

Experimental toxicology

Allergy and immunology

Economics

Human epidemiology

Computer science

Social science

Others

Scientific disciplines; 2.359 projects

Roadmap (RM1) for selection of topics for pilot calls.

Roadmap (RM2) for selection of topics for pilot calls.

Joint Call PilotTopics

Emerging risks(Common pot)

Pat. free production(Common pot)

Zoonosis(Virtual pot)

Country

Baque-country   x x

Cyprus   x x

Denmark x* x* x**

Germany x   x

Finland x* x* x

Netherlands x   x

Norway x x x

Portugal x   x

Iceland x x x

Sweden x* x x**

UK   x X

* Through NICe ** Through NCM

Joint call pilot• Total budget:

– 2 400 000 euro in funding• ”Common pot”:

– Emerging Risk – Pathogen Free Production

Systems• ”Distributed pot”:

– Zoonosis• Duration:

– 1 Year• Funding members:

– management & ownership• ESC & PMG:

– initiators and overview

Timeline

1. Open the call September 20062. Deadline for the applications 15th December 20063. Evaluation December – February 20074. Funding decisions March 20075. Kick Off 1st May 20076. Finish of the projects April 2008

The evaluation criteria:

•Relevance according to the call•The chances for achieving the objectives

•Scientific quality•Value for money

•Enhancing International collaborative work

Dialogue or a workshop with stakeholdersFacilitating pan-European dissemination and exploitation of research results.

Time schedule SAFEFOODERA Stakeholder meetings:

Scientists (SAFE ++) Lisabon, 23 – 24 November 2006

Food Industry (CIAA) Copenhagen, 14 – 15 December 2006

Retail and Food Service January 2007

Consumers (BEUC) February 2007

Commission and EFSA March 2007

Invited Stakeholders Month / year

building on the lessons learned

Pilot 2

Expanding the networkEra-Net +Art 169Or ???

Where to go?

The SAFEFOODERA The SAFEFOODERA primary objectiveprimary objective

is to establish a European platform for protecting consumers against health risks from the consumption of food !!!

ERA-NET+

This could take the form of a Community top-up for joint calls of proposals (to the tune of 30% of total costs, provided a number of conditions are satisfied), where participating entities create a common fund for the purpose of the action. As such, the ERA-NET+ mechanism, which will remain a simple and flexible coordination mechanism between national or regional research programmes, could become a more effective bridge toward…..

the topic should have a high relevance and has to involve a sufficient number of Member States the field of the proposal needs to be focused and shall be covered by the Framework Programme, both in terms of contents and of budget allocation. the field of the proposal has to be of major interest for the Community it has to be clearly demonstrated that Article 169 is the appropriate instrument to allow the Community to contribute to the coordination and the cooperation between national RTD programmes and to achieve the foreseen goals. following the approval by Council and European Parliament the initiative can be started, appropriate structures can be created and further decision making can take place between the involved Member States and the Commission.

Article 169 initiatives

www.safefoodera.net

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www.nordicinnovation.net