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Food Allergens Risk Management for Food Safety

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2020-1-TR01-KA202-094105
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training Funder Contribution: 109,044 EUR

Food Allergens Risk Management for Food Safety

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Food allergy is a growing food safety and public health concern and is extremely important due to the incidence in humans; it has been an issue which is needed to be focused on. The frequency of food allergy has increased over the past 30 years, particularly in industrialized societies. The overall objective of this project is to develop skills of food control officers, to increase the level of compliance of food control officers and food businesses with EU directives in food safety monitoring and control strategies and to enhance knowledge about food allergens. Food control officers who are equipped with monitoring and control skills on food allergens will be much more beneficial to business life, and they will contribute to the development of the food premises about allergens. In order to achieve this goal, the specific objectives of the project are -to conduct a strategic road map and action plan, -to prepare an allergen management guideline and an allergen control checklist, -to develop a digital food allergy training website for food control officers and food businesses for easy access to information. -to prepare sample menus for food businesses to facilitate the use of informing allergens.-to provide trainings for food control officers on issues such as food allergy and its importance, food allergens, relevant legislation in Europe, allergen risk management in food businesses. Target groups of the project are food control officers, food producer businesses and collective consumption businesses (caterers, restaurants, canteens, cafes, etc.). Since all the outputs will be prepared for utilization and benefiting of food control officers, employees and employers of businesses, they are among target groups. Furthermore, they will be able to enhance their skills through benefitting from these intellectual outputs. Because they will gain very crucial information about food allergens in addition to their sectorial know-how.The final beneficiaries are people with allergies, students in primary and secondary schools, students in universities who aim to be a food control officer or an employee in a food business as a profession, learners studying in VET in areas such as cooking, gastronomy and tourism. Because the obtained intellectual outputs will make these groups get information about allergens, raise awareness of them, and contribute to their life and occupational experience.The expected results are as follows;1.The strategic road map and action plan for food allergens management will be conducted. (Output 1)2.The allergen risk management guideline, that will be used by food businesses, and the allergen control checklist, that will be used by food control officers, will be prepared. (Output 2)3.The digital food allergy training website for food control officers and food businesses will be developed for easy access to information. The food control officers, and employees and employers of food producer businesses and collective consumption businesses (caterers, restaurants, canteens, cafes, etc.) can get trainings, access to much more information, and use the documents (guideline and checklist) and related regulations needed in the food safety monitoring and control process. (Output 3)4.Open access to guideline, checklist and flexible learning website will be ensured by developing these intellectual outputs.5.A sampling of menus will be prepared for food businesses to facilitate the use of informing allergens in foods. (Output 4)6.Multiplier Events will be organized in each partner country in order to ensure that the project and it outputs will be disseminated to and will reach the target groups.There are 4 partners from 4 countries. The partnership includes different types of organizations; applicant is a local public body, Italian partners is Research Institute/Centre, Slovenian partner is a public-school center of biotechnic, and Greek partner is an agri-food SME. As seen, it is a mutually complementary partnership. Each partner can contribute to the project with its vast experience on food sector. Except applicant and Italian partner, the other 2 partners have experience in Strategic Partnership projects. Italian partner has experience in EU programmes such as Horizon 2020. Besides, applicant managed many projects granted from Regional Development Agency, and one of its staff has a vast working experience on project management and monitoring in Regional Development Agency and CFCU.It is planned to make a transnational project meeting (TPM) in each partner country. The meetings will be carried out per nearly 5 months. Partners’ staffs should participate in these meetings. The delegation of each partner will be constituted of 3-4 staffs. These participants will be the responsible people for the related intellectual outputs.

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