Food quality

What FiBL is doing on this theme
News on the theme
- 02/08/2024 : Alkaloid analysis in lupins – fact sheet explains the process
- 12/15/2021 : Guidance for companies in case of suspicion of non-compliance with EU regulation
- 10/01/2021 : Evaluation criteria for the processing of organic food developed
- 05/17/2021 : Using stable isotopes to trace the regional origin of foodstuffs
- 02/24/2021 : ProOrg – Organic market and stakeholder survey
- 09/28/2020 : FiBL signs new Partnership Agreement with the regional brand "Taste of Ukrainian Carpathians"
- 03/24/2016 : First peer-reviewed scientific paper on the Sustainability Assessment Tool SMART published
- 02/16/2016 : Clear differences between organic and non-organic milk and meat
- 05/19/2015 : Organic food combines sustainability and quality
- 05/16/2012 : Updating the knowledge base on organic food quality and processing
- 11/02/2011 : Sixth Annual Biocontrol Industry Meeting Lucerne
- 07/19/2011 : Side event on genetic resources and organic agriculture at the session of the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- 06/22/2011 : Enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) – A problem not specific to sustainable agriculture
- 06/16/2011 : EU Project on food security begins in North Korea
- 06/13/2011 : EHEC – A problem not specific to organic farming
- 01/31/2011 : EU ecolabel for food and feed products - A feasibility study
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Status	FiBL	Title	Start	End
ongoing	CH	Label generator with recipe and nutrition calculator	12.08.2024	31.12.2025
ongoing	CH	A holistic frameWork with Anticounterfeit and inTelligence-based technologieS that will assist food chain stakehOlders in rapidly identifying and preventing the spread of fraudulent practices (WATSON)	01.03.2023	28.02.2026
ongoing	DE	Stress reduction through mobile slaughtering of poultry and cattle (StronGeR)	01.01.2023	30.06.2025
ongoing	CH	Agroecological transition and organic certification in Vietnam to empower rural communities (SNF Agro-econvert)	01.04.2022	31.03.2025
ongoing	AT CH	MIcro- and NAno-Plastics in AGRIcultural Soils: sources, environmental fate and impacts on ecosystem services and overall sustainability (MINAGRIS)	01.09.2021	31.08.2026
completed	DE	Recommendations for the design of legal requirements for cleaning and disinfectants in organic food processing and storage (RuDI)	01.08.2021	29.02.2024
ongoing	CH	Innovative Tools for Assessment and Authentication of chicken meat, beef and dairy products’ Qualities (INTAQT)	01.01.2021	31.07.2026
completed	CH DE	Dossier Nachhaltigkeit und Qualität Bio-Lebensmittel	01.06.2020	31.12.2020
completed	CH	Drivers and potential health impacts of dietary and nutrition practices and choices in Kirinyaga and Muranga counties, Kenya (Nutridecisions)	01.10.2019	31.10.2021
completed	CH	Higher Value Added Trade from the Organic and the Dairy Sector in Ukraine (Quality FOOD Trade Program)	23.08.2019	30.06.2023
completed	DE	EIT Food Project – The development of organic supply chains that drive fair, transparent and healthy options for the consumer (EIT Food Projekt)	18.03.2019	31.12.2019
completed	CH	Better Trainings for Safer Food (BTSF): Organic Farming Scheme	16.06.2016	15.06.2020
completed	CH	Tropane alkaloids in organic food	01.01.2016	30.09.2016
completed	CH	Pesticide Residues in Silo Walls	01.04.2015	30.09.2015
completed	DE	Environmentally-friendly management of hygiene in food processing units	01.09.2014	28.02.2017
completed	CH	Mineralöl aus Altkarton- und Altpapierverpackungen in Lebensmitteln (Factsheet Mineralöl)	01.06.2014	31.12.2014
completed	CH	Cadmium availability in soils and its uptake by cocoa in Latin America (CdOCOA)	01.04.2014	31.12.2016
ongoing	CH	Packaging materials: Bio-based plastics	01.01.2014
completed	CH	Detergents and disinfectants	01.01.2014	31.12.2015
completed	CH	Sustainability in gastronomy	01.01.2014	31.12.2015
completed	CH	Packaging materials: Plasticisers from gaskets in screw caps	01.01.2014	31.12.2015
completed	CH	Analysis of the state of knowledge on quality, consumer protection and processing of organic food	08.06.2011	31.03.2012
completed	CH	Syprobio-Improving farmers income and food security in diversified organic production systems in West-Africa (SYPROBIO)	01.01.2011	31.12.2015
completed	CH	Kurs Umgang mit Rückständen	30.10.2009	30.10.2009
completed	CH	Differenzierende Methoden und Methoden der Evaluierung	01.02.2009	30.07.2011
completed	CH	Nützlinge im Vorratsschutz	01.01.2009	31.12.2011
completed	CH	Organic Sensory Information System (OSIS): Documentation of sensory properties through testing and consumer research for the organic industry (ECROPOLIS)	01.01.2009	31.12.2011
completed	CH	Nachhaltige Verpackung von Bio-Lebensmitteln: Ein Leitfaden für Unternehmen	15.12.2008	28.02.2011
completed	CH	Risiko basierte Kontrolle	01.09.2008	30.08.2011
completed	CH	Inoculation of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and rhizobacteria (PGPR) for sustainable cropping systems in India (ISCB BFNet FiBL (Biofertilizer Network))	01.01.2008	31.12.2014
completed	CH	Contamination in Organic Vegetables (PathOrganic)	01.08.2007	30.07.2011
completed	CH	Coop Naturaplan-Fonds: Einfluss von Diäten aus konventioneller und biologischer Erzeugung auf Gesundheits- und Leistungsparameter von Kaninchen	01.05.2006	01.05.2009
completed	CH	Nützlinge in der Schädlingsbekämpfung	01.01.2006	31.12.2008
completed	CH	Safe food production (COST 859)	01.01.2005	31.12.2008
completed	CH	QualityLowInputFood WP 5.3: Case study 2: Assessment of processing technologies that may improve the nutritional composition of dairy products (QLIF, WP 5.3)	01.03.2004	31.05.2009
completed	CH	QualityLowInputFood SP 5: Development of a framework for the design of minimum processing strategies, which guarantee food quality and safety (QLIF, SP 5)	01.03.2004	31.05.2009
completed	CH	QualityLowInputFood WP 6.1: Economic analyses of structures, conduct and performance of supply chains for organic foods in Europe (QLIF, WP 6.1)	01.03.2004	31.05.2009
completed	CH	QualityLowInputFood: Improving quality and safety and reduction of cost in the European organic and 'low input' supply chains (QLIF)	01.03.2004	31.05.2009
completed	CH	QualityLowInputFood WP 5.2: Assessment of chlorine replacement strategies for fresh cut vegetable (QLIF, WP 5.2)	01.03.2004	31.05.2009
completed	CH	Systemanalyse gentechnikfreie Bioproduktion (Biogene)	01.01.2004	31.12.2005
completed	CH	Recommendation for improved procedures for securing consumer oriented food safety and quality of certified organic products from plough to plate (ORGANIC HACCP)	01.02.2003	31.01.2005
completed	CH	Coop Naturaplan-Fonds: Mikroflora von Bioprodukten	01.01.2003	01.05.2009
completed	CH	Analyse der GVO-Verunreinigungen in Bioprodukten	01.01.2002	31.12.2003
completed	CH	Merkblatt Dioxin Ukraine	30.11.1999	30.11.1999
completed	CH	Bioqualität und Gesundheit	30.11.1999	30.11.1999
completed	CH	Beurteilung von Zusatzstoffen	30.11.1999	31.12.2011
completed	CH	Metzgerschulung	30.11.1999	30.11.1999
completed	CH	Rückstände Risikomanagement (Rückstände - Risikomanagement)
ongoing	CH	Beurteilung von Rückstandsfällen (Rückstände - Fallbeurteilung)

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