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EU food agency awards over 1 mln euros to research projects

Xinhua, February 24, 2017 Adjust font size:

A European Union (EU) food agency said Thursday in a statement that it had awarded over one million euros (1.06 million U.S. dollars) to three innovative research projects to develop risk assessment methods.

The agency, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), awarded these projects to support advances in risk assessment methodology and encourage scientific cooperation, innovation, and exchange of expertise in the EU, according to the statement.

The winning projects were determination of metrics of emerging risk, mycotoxin mixtures in food and feed, and a surveillance analysis tool for outcome-based comparison of the confidence of freedom generated by control or eradication programs.

Cooperation with its partners in the member states is one of EFSA's priorities to further enhance EU risk assessment capacity. It created thematic grants as an additional instrument for strengthening scientific cooperation by co-funding research projects.

The 2016 thematic grant call followed the pilot in 2015. The pilot call attracted interest from 34 organisations from 14 countries. Endit