Please join us on February 7th starting at 14:00.
No need to register - just show up in EBI 021.

Diana P. Fonseca is our guest speaker.

Contaminated food causes 600 million cases of food-borne illness and 420,000 deaths each year, resulting in 33 million years of healthy life lost, and this may be an underestimate. Food safety is critical for the food sector to protect public health and ensure that the food we consume is free from harmful contaminants.
Despite recent advances in scientific research and innovation, several barriers hinder the widespread adoption of food safety improvements, such as a lack of cooperation and information sharing among stakeholders, complex regulations and high implementation costs.

Overcoming these barriers requires a coordinated and interdisciplinary effort between industry, regulators, researchers and innovators to identify food safety priorities and translate them into practical innovative solutions. To address these key challenges, CATALYSE, a European project, aims to catalyse scientific innovation into practical food safety actions by creating a Community of Practice (CoP), i.e. a group of people and organisations with a common interest in food safety, working together to share knowledge, solve problems and drive innovation.

The CATALYSE CoP aims to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among food safety stakeholders to accelerate the adoption and scale-up of innovative practices and technologies. This will contribute to a more resilient, sustainable and equitable community, meeting the needs of all stakeholders, from farm2fork, with the common goal of ensuring food safety.