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Fancy checking out our priorities?

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The Agency has just published itsForward Evidence Plan for 2013. The plan outlines science and evidence priorities for the coming year, including potential areas for research funding.

The proposals cover a range of areas, including:

  • microbiological food safety, including campylobacter, E.coli, listeria and norovirus
  • a range of issues related to food and feed hygiene policy  
  • chemical safety of food, including metals and organic contaminants  
  • the next round of the FSA strategic challenge call  
  • diet and health related work funded by the FSA in Scotland and Northern Ireland

In the plan, each area of potential research is described in detail. On campylobacter for example, one of the projects, ‘Controlling campylobacter during the manufacture of chicken liver pate’, will examine current recipes and methods for producing chicken liver pate. It will aim to identify interventions (freezing, heat, organic acids) to eliminate campylobacter while ensuring that the final product is acceptable to consumers.

Another project  on the ‘Physical removal of campylobacter from chicken carcasses’ will look at better ways ofreducingcampylobacterby disrupting bacteria from the surfaces of poultry carcasses.

A third, looking at the‘Application of whole genome sequencing to fully characterise campylobacter isolates from IID1 and IID2’,will aim to make it easier to track down the source of any infection.

Why notcheck out theplan at the link above. If you then have a viewpoint on our proposals, please contact us by Friday 15 February with your comments to:cst@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk


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