METROFOOD-RI “A common good to meet EU research goals and improve food production and consumption”
ENEA and the Joint Research Unit METROFOOD-IT present METROFOOD-RI (“Infrastructure for promoting metrology in food and nutrition”), the rst ESFRI Research Infrastructure coordinated by Italy for the domain “Health & Food”, designed to support research and develop concrete solutions and synergies in the area of food quality, safety and authenticity.
METROFOOD-RI Consortium includes 48 Partners from 18 European Countries, with more than 2200 researcher involved. In Italy, 12 among the main research institutions set up a devoted JRU and ENEA, which acts as coordinator, engaged several research units belonging to the di erent disciplinary elds.
Quality, safety, traceability and food authenticity, sustainability and nutrition are the keywords around which researches and studies focus, with the aim to promote measurement reliability and the adoption of the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable) approach, favouring harmonisation and knowledge integration and sharing.
- Research to underpin a framework for globally trusted measurements
Hans Arne Frøystein – EURAMET Chairperson - Food fraud: the metrological challenges
Franz Ulberth – Head of Unit Fraud Detection & Prevention EU-JRC-Directorate F - IMEKO federation and International equivalence of measurements
Alessandro Germak – IMEKO Italian delegate - EFSA Communication
Italian Cluster Agrifood