Acronym Qalibra
Category
Seafood Processing
Title Quality of life - integrated benefit and risk analysis. Web-based tools for assessing food safety and health benefits Programme FP6
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
FP6 - Specific Targeted Research Project
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
Food Quality and Safety
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source European Coordinator Helga Gunnlaugsdóttir Coordinator email helga.gunnlaugsdottir@matis.is
Coordinator institution
MATIS - Matis Ltd (Iceland)
Institutions involved
NA - Altagra Business services and travel Agency (Hungary) ,
INRB - National Institute of Biological Resources, IP (Portugal) ,
RIVM - Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (Netherlands) ,
DEFRA - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (United Kingdom) ,
UPATRAS - University of Patras (Greece) ,
WUR - Wageningen University and Research (Netherlands) ,
Start year 2006 End year 2009 Funding (€) € 2,998,354 Website https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/22957 Summary The overall objectives of QALIBRA are to develop a suite of quantitative methods for assessing and integrating beneficial and adverse effects of foods, and make them available to all stakeholders as web-based software for assessing and communicating net health impacts. These objectives directly address the Commission's requirements for work programme topic T.5.4.8.3 - Assessing health benefits against potential effects of environmental contaminants in selected food groups. To achieve these objectives QALIBRA will: 1.Develop a generalised modular approach to risk-benefit analysis using menus of dose-response and valuation functions. 2.Implement the risk-benefit analysis methods developed in QALIBRA in web-enabled software that is available for use by all stakeholders via an integrated website, with different components adapted to different user groups. 3.Develop targeted risk communication strategies for integrated risk-benefit analysis, adapted to the needs of different stakeholders, and develop and test programs and materials for dissemination. 4.Use the methods and software developed by QALIBRA to carry out comprehensive risk-benefit analyses for selected food groups including one type of fish (cod) and functional foods, for selected EU populations, and use the results to evaluate and improve the QALIBRA approaches 5.Establish a platform for cluster activities between QALIBRA and BENERIS projects and report about them to the Commission. 6.Manage and coordinate the QALIBRA project to ensure the activities are properly focussed on the Commission's objectives and achieve high standards of scientific and technological excellence, ensure the quality of the consortium personnel and the mobilisation of resources, to monitor and evaluate progress against the project milestones and to make timely and appropriate adjustments when necessary.
Keywords
Food safety;
Fish;
Risk assessment;
Toxic substances;
Human health;
Marine Region
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Not associated to marine areas
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