Second Technical Meeting of the KC-FFQ

Place: JRC, Geel, Belgium

Date: 12-14 November 2019

The Knowledge Centre for Food Fraud and Quality held its 2nd technical meeting in Geel (BE) on 12-14 November 2019. The workshop built on the outcome of the 1st workshop, which took place in December 2018, and aimed to deepen the understanding of the needs expressed by the competent authorities.

Two focus areas flagged in the 1st workshop received special attention: 

• Early Warning Systems,
• Compositional Databases.

For those topics outside experts and service providers presented
the state-of-play as a basis for framing future actions; in particular, workshop participants discussed questions around the:

• availability and conditions of use of compositional databases and statistical models curated by commercial service providers;
• prospects and limitations of Early Warning Systems

You can find more details about the meeting in the technical report.

First Technical Meeting of the KC-FFQ

Place: JRC, Geel, Belgium

Date: 4-5 December 2018

The Knowledge Centre for Food Fraud and Quality1 held its inaugural technical meeting in Geel (BE) on 4-5 December 2018. The purpose of the meeting was to identify current gaps in the existing food forensics' toolbox and identify ways to fill those gaps by using a participatory approach to engage experts delegated by the Member States  competent authorities in the discussions.

Five topic areas of high relevance:

• Organisation of food fraud detection activities in the Member States and information sharing;
• Analytical methods and measurement capabilities of the Member States;
• Early warning systems;
• Compositional databases and sharing of databases;
• Vulnerability analysis; were discussed in small groups in a World Café setting.

You can find more details about the meeting in the technical report.

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