I EU’s 6. rammeprogram under prioritet 5: ”Food Quality and Safety” er der bevilget midler til et femårigt projekt med titlen: ”Improving the quality of pork and pork products for the consumer: development of innovative, integrated and sustainable food production chains of high quality pork products matching consumer demands” (acronym:
Q-PORKCHAINS). Projektet er kategoriseret som et Integrated Project (IP).
Formål
At deltage i seks ud af projektets ni moduler for at tilvejebringe ny viden, der kan øge forbrugertilfredsheden med svinekød og kødprodukter.
Baggrund og indhold
Projektet blev igangsat i januar 2007 og har følgende indhold:
Pillars (RTD modules)
|
Scientific and Technological Objectives |
| I. Consumer / Market Analysis |
To develop new tools for marketing and development of porkbased products based on mapping and assessment of behaviour towards the pig production chain as citizens and as consumers. |
II. Diversity, Flexibility and Sustainability of Farm-level Production Systems
|
To develop tools and systems for improved responsiveness of sustainable production systems at farm-level towards society demands. |
III. Product Development – Quality,
Nutrition and Convenience |
To develop innovative technologies for improved pork products to match consumer demands in relation to quality, nutrition, and convenience. |
IV Integration and Sustainable
Management of the Production Chain
|
To identify and develop tools for integration and efficient sustainable management of a diversified European production and distribution system. |
V. New Biology as a Tool for Control of
Pork Quality |
To develop and apply new and appropriate molecular control tools in the production of pork. |
VI Synthesis of Existing Knowledge on
Pork Quality, Safety, and Welfare |
To develop prediction models for pork quality, safety, and welfare as a consequence of the production systems. |
Horizontal components
|
Specific Objective |
A. Pilot Chains, Demonstration, and SME
Networking |
To facilitate cooperation with SMEs on pilot research and demonstration activities (of results of Pillar I-VI) and develop interorganisational collaboration along pork chains and networks. |
| B. Education, Training, and Dissemination |
To transfer knowledge from the project to users at all levels |
| C. Project Management and Administration |
To manage, coordinate and administrate Q-PORKCHAINS during its lifetime. |
DMRI medvirker i modulerne I, II, III, V og VI, samt i Horizontal component B. Instituttet er work package leader i modul III.
Samarbejdspartnere
Københavns Universitet/Life Science (projektkoordinator), Århus Universitet/Det Jordbrugsvidenskabelige Fakultet og MAPP, Danish Crown. I alt medvirker 47 institutioner og virksomheder fra 16 europæiske lande og fra Brasilien, Kina, Sydafrika og USA.
Projektleder: Susanne Støier
Offentliggørelse
Offentliggørelse af delresultater: Projektresultater offentliggøres løbende i nyhedsbreve fra Q-PorkChains og på DMRI's hjemmeside. Offentliggørelse af slutresultat: Ved afslutning af projektet offentliggøres resultater i nyhedsbrev fra Q-PorkChains og på DMRI's hjemmeside. Endvidere vil resultater publiceres i videnskabelige tidsskrifter.
