Acronym PARASITE
Category
Seafood Processing
Title Parasite risk assessment with integrated tools in EU fish production value chains Programme FP7
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
FP7 - Collaborative Project targeted to a Special Group (such as SMEs)
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
KBBE – Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Specific Programme (FP7)
Cooperation
Funding source European Coordinator Santiago Pascual Coordinator email spascual@iim.csic.es
Coordinator institution
CSIC - Spanish National Research Council (Spain)
Institutions involved
CLSU - Central Luzon State University (Philippines) ,
CETMAR - Centro Tecnológico del Mar - Fundación CETMAR (Spain) ,
NA - Comercial Hospitalaria Grupo 3, SL (Spain) ,
ARVI - Cooperative of Fisheries Owners of the Port of Vigo (Spain) ,
FAMRI - Faeroe Marine Research Institute (Faroe Islands) ,
ANSES - French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (France) ,
NA - Hermes AS (Norway) ,
IOF - Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (Croatia) ,
ISS - Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italy) ,
NA - Larpro Engineering, SL (Spain) ,
MRI - Max Rubner-Institut - Federal Research Institute of Nutrition and Food (Germany) ,
NIFES - National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research (Norway) ,
NA - Nederlof's Vishandel BV (Netherlands) ,
NTU - Nha Trang University (Vietnam) ,
NA - Servicio Madrileño de Salud (Spain) ,
NA - Technet GmbH (Germany) ,
UOA - University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom) ,
KU - University of Copenhagen (Denmark) ,
UNITUS - University of Tuscia (Italy) ,
ZJOU - Zhejiang Ocean University (China) ,
Start year 2013 End year 2016 Funding (€) € 5,107,294 Website https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/312068 Summary Despite many efforts to ensure that only high-quality and safe products are put on the market, fish-borne parasites continue to pose risks to human health, with zoonotic infections and allergic reactions mainly following consumption of raw, lightly cooked, or marinated seafood. The PARASITE proposal is presented by a multidisciplinary consortium of 12 European and 3 Asian research institutions and 6 European SMEs. It aims to provide new scientific evidence and technological developments to detect, monitor, and mitigate impacts of zoonotic parasites, mainly anisakid nematodes but also trematode metacercariae, occurring in European and imported fishery products. The Project will address the research needs identified by EFSA regarding the risk of seafood-borne parasites. It also will facilitate close cooperation between scientists and end-users to produce new technological solutions and management tools for both European and imported fishery products. The Work Plan has been organized in 9 work packages, each covering different stages of a risk assessment framework, providing new epidemiological data, monitoring tools, development and implementation of parasite detection devices, technological tools for their mitigation, and dissemination of key results to all the stakeholders and the general public. Risk assessment of zoonotic parasites will ensure significant progress beyond the state of the art. This will be achieved by improving molecular hazard identification, antigen/allergen characterization, parasite exposure assessment, detection methods and treatments for industrial and other end-users, and an integrated quantitative risk analysis based on powerful statistics and modelling, The main results will impact by (1) contributing to enhanced seafood safety, with consequent benefits for public health and consumer confidence, (2) strengthening the competitiveness of European seafood, from the net to the plate and (3) improving EU food safety policies.
Keywords
Seafood;
Food safety;
Monitoring;
Parasite;
Risk assessment;
Technology;
Market;
Fish products;
Fish;
Marine Region
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