Acronym ATLANTOX
Category
Fisheries
Title Advanced Tests about New Toxins appeared in Atlantic Area Programme Interreg IV
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
Strand B
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
Atlantic Area
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source European
Coordinator institution
USC - University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Institutions involved
AFBI - Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (United Kingdom) ,
CIT - Cork Institute of Technology (Ireland) ,
NA - GCE Blue Maritime Cluster (Norway) ,
CIIMAR - Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (Portugal) ,
ANFACO-CECOPESCA - National Association of Conservatives of Pescados (Spain) ,
QUB - Queen's University Belfast (United Kingdom) ,
Start year 2009 End year 2010 Funding (€) € 1,839,463 Website https://keep.eu/projects/389/Advanced-Tests-about-New-Toxi-EN/ Summary The effects of climate change and global temperature rising are imminent, irreversible and they impact directly or indirectly on the marine environment and population. The effects of climate change and global temperature rising are imminent, irreversible and they impact directly or indirectly on the marine environment and population. Marine ecosystems are under the effects produced by fluctuation in water temperature; this is responsible for the settlement of favourable ecological conditions for toxins reproduction. Although the Atlantic area coast is probably not the most affected by the negative influence of climate changes, (with more pressing areas being in warmer waters), its effects are already visible and worrying, requiring actions to ensure optimum levels of food safety for people of this coastal area and to minimize the further impact of its consequences in other sectors such as fisheries or tourism. Toxic episodes are a major public health problem whose impact is moved to areas such as tourism and a reduced consumption of seafood. Many local economies of this coastal area are subjected to uncertainty, as they rely upon live resources that are experiencing intense natural variability. Referring to this, the present priority is to tackle the appearance and multiplication of marine biotoxins: it is to determine and ensure an effective, fast and reliable control system to detect them. The current mode of reference in the European Union, the mouse bioassay, is not sufficiently sensitive, shows a significant change, requires time, is vulnerable to interference and is unethical in terms of animal welfare. The main objective of this project is to support and accelerate the development and introduction of a proper and efficient method of fast alternative detection based on antibodies and functional tests for biotoxins.
Keywords
Mollusc;
Algal toxins;
Food safety;
Fish;
Impacts;
Monitoring;
Shellfish;
Marine Region
19
Gulf of Finland (27.IIId.32)
26
Northwest Coast of Scotland and North Ireland (27.VIa)
30
Porcupine Bank (27.VIIc)
16
East of Gotland or Gulf of Riga (27.IIId.28)
24
Sound, Belt Sea or Transition Area (27.IIIb,c)
17
Bothnian Sea (27.IIId.30)
29
West of Ireland (27.VIIb)
1
Northern Oceanic (34.2)
18
West of Gotland (27.IIId.27)
22
Southern Central Baltic-West (27.IIId.25)
2
Canarias and Madeira Islands (34.1.2)
41
Norwegian Sea (27.IIa)
39
North of Azores (27.XIIa, 27.XIIb, 27.XIIc)
31
Southwest of Ireland-East (27.VIIj)
9
Western English Channel (27.VIIe)
14
Skagerrak, Kattegat (27.IIIa)
33
Bay of Biscay Southern (27.VIIIc)
6
Central North Sea (27.IVb)
43
Northeast Greenland (27.XIVa)
35
West of Bay of Biscay (27.VIIIe)
40
Azores Grounds (27.Xa, 27.Xb)
36
Iceland Grounds (27.Va)
13
Northern North Sea (27.IVa)
37
Southeast Greenland (27.XIVb)
23
Baltic West of Bornholm (27.IIId.24)
8
Bristol Channel (27.VIIf)
11
Celtic Sea South (27.VIIh)
5
Southern North Sea (27.IVc)
38
Portuguese Waters (27.IXa,27.IXb)
27
Bothnian Bay (27.IIId.31)
15
Bay of Biscay Central (27.VIIIb)
10
Celtic Sea North (27.VIIg)
34
Bay of Biscay offshore (27.VIIId)
20
Archipelago Sea (27.IIId. 29)
44
Spitzbergen and Bear Island (27.IIb)
21
Southern Central Baltic-East (27.IIId.26)
7
Irish Sea (27.VIIa)
42
Barents Sea (27.I)
28
Rockall (27.VIb)
12
Bay of Biscay North (27.VIIIa)
25
Faroes Grounds (27.Vb)
32
Southwest of Ireland-West (27.VIIk)
4
Eastern English Channel (27.VIId)
3
Marocco coast (34.1.1)
44
Marine Region Map
