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MED Food TTHubs Newsletter Issue No.5
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MED Food TTHubs in a nutshell
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MED Food TTHubs: Trace & Trust Hubs for Mediterranean Food A new PRIMA project started in April 2020: the MED Food TTHubs project was born to provide safer and more sustainable Mediterranean food products for people all around the world. When it comes to food safetddy, trust concerning the origin of raw materials (e.g. fruits, vegetables, livestock, fish) and the …
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Taking stock of what we have…
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Another six months have gone by, and several changes have happened, which we are excited about and look forward to sharing with you! Over the last semester, the MED Food TTHubs partners worked intensively on the development of our traceability e-platform, which is now available for use. In particular, on the basis of the feedback received via the internal testing …
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Our first physical meeting!
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The need for a face-to-face meeting has long been a topic of discussion in many consortium telcos, in order to facilitate the efficient design of project’s activities and operation plans at each country. And finally, after something more than two years of virtual meetings, Covid-19 restrictions, and all the hurdles that this reality entailed, the partners were given the chance …
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Sun, sea, flip flops…and… a Joint Project Meeting!
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It was the 11 May, a sunny, hot day in Greece and at the Possidi Holidays Hotel preparation was ongoing for an interesting Joint Meeting…With the goal to maximise synergies between PRIMA funded projects, the MED Food TTHubs consortium met the MEDIFIT partners met to share the state of the art of their activities, map the implementation stage for each …
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The MED Food TTHubs e-Platform
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Here comes the good news! After almost two years of hard work, the MED Food TTHubs e-platform is ready and awaiting for you to test its functions! The e-platform draws on blockchain technology, which ensures the transparency and integrity of the recorded data along the supply chain. Through the detailed documentation of the provenance of a product at every step …
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Have you used our e-platform yet? Tutorials now guide you through it!
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With the aim to build a repository of resources, activities, and results from the work carried out throughout the MED Food TTHubs project, the present website hosts a dedicated collection of training materials that can be used to start making use of our e-platform and tackling challenges in local agri-food supply chains. This online repository gathers in a single place training videos …
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Our pilot activities are running! Register and dive into MED Food TTHubs’s world! Over the past months, we have been working round the clock to leverage cutting edge technologies such as blockchain and combine them with authentication processes to support full transparency in the agri-food sector. Now, we are ready to welcome you to participate in the pilot activities of …
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Expanding the network of MED Food TTHubs synergies…
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Almost six months before the end of this journey, and as part of our commitment to expand our network, we are happy to announce that we have made new synergies with four exciting projects. Which are these projects and what they are about? The SafeAgroBee project SafeAgroBee contributes to adaptation and mitigation of the effects of climate change and other drivers negatively influencing the …
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The other side of MED Food TThubs: networking & research
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In the past six months we attended several academic conferences and non-academic events to discuss the methodological approach we have adopted in MED Food TTHubs, talk about authentication protocols, traceability control systems and sustainability in the agri-food supply chains. Below, you can find a selection of those, so you can be up to speed with what is going on... The …
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New MED Food TTHubs publication: “Probabilistic Machine Learning for the Authentication of the Protected Designation of Origin of Greek Bottarga from Messolongi: A Generic Methodology to Cope with Very Small Number of Samples”
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In their recently published paper on the Special Issue Applications of Machine Learning in Food Industry, the authors of this MED Food TTHubs-based publication studies the application of stable isotope analysis to discriminate the geographical origin of bottarga samples from Messolongi and samples from different regions and explains its use as a decision mechanism for the certification of individual samples. …
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