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Tracing the Origin of Food (continuation project)

Reference	BBS/E/F/00044510
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Dr Reg Wilson
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	Quadram Institute Bioscience
Department	Quadram Institute Bioscience Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	32,100
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/2008
End date	31/12/2009
Duration	21 months

Abstract

This proposal is for matching funding for a European 6th Framework Integrated Project (TRACE) for the period April 2008 to December 2009. IFR has two major work areas in this phase of the TRACE project: Workpackage (WP1) - Stable isotope analysis will be applied to the geographical origin characterization of beef and chicken samples from two test sites in the UK (the Orkney Isles and Cornwall). These sites have previously been used to study the provenance of honey, cereals and lamb meat within a network of 21 test sites throughout Europe. The ultimate goal of the research is to attempt to develop geo-spatial maps that permit the isotopic and trace element composition of a food commodity to be predicted and used by enforcement authorities for food quality and labelling control. Workpackage (WP2) - The use of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Liquid Chromatography coupled to Mass Spectrometry to characterise metabolite profiles in chicken as indicators of geographical origin. About 400 samples, previously collected in TRACE, are available from Europe, China, Thailand and S.America are available to validate a metabolomic technique.

Summary

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Committee	Closed Committee - Agri-food (AF)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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