According
\nto the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), 200 billion
\nEuros of food products have to be thrown away annually. The economic
\nimpact of this trend is particularly apparent within the Dutch-German
\nborder region due its well-developed agrofood industry. In a society
\nthat continues to increase its focus on circularity,
\nresource-efficiency, and carbon-free food production, limiting excessive
\nfood waste as a result of spoilage is a focus point for governments
\nthroughout the European Union.<\/p>\n
One of the major challenges in preventing food waste is the accurate
\ndetection of spores shed by bacteria and fungi. These spores are
\nextremely resistant to pasteurization and can survive this process,
\nenabling them to recontaminate the product at a later stage. Governments
\nas well as internal stakeholders in the food industry currently try to
\ndetect microbial contaminants by regularly taking food samples and
\nsending them to an external lab for analysis. This is a slow and
\nexpensive process that typically requires a few days to identify a
\ncontamination. In the mean time, the product is already in retail or
\nwith the consumers, leading to recalls and associated economic damage. A
\ntechnology that would allow food producers to perform additional
\nroutine testing on-site to detect and deal with microbiological
\ncontamination on-site, could have an enormous impact on the industry.<\/p>\n
The Sensor Engineering Department of UM has recently developed a
\ntechnology that can offer a solution and detect contamination in liquid
\nfood products in a fast and cheap manner. The technology has been
\nvalidated on a lab scale and will be further implemented into the
\nregional food industry in Senspores, a project led by he Microbiology
\nDepartment of the Hochschule Niederrhein in association with local
\ntechnology SMEs and regional end-users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","pr-category":[272],"pr-priority":[288],"pr-stat":[254],"class_list":["post-39929","projects","type-projects","status-publish","hentry","pr-category-agro-food-3","pr-priority-a-more-innovative-programme-area","pr-stat-ongoing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deutschland-nederland.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects\/39929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deutschland-nederland.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deutschland-nederland.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/projects"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deutschland-nederland.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pr-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deutschland-nederland.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pr-category?post=39929"},{"taxonomy":"pr-priority","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deutschland-nederland.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pr-priority?post=39929"},{"taxonomy":"pr-stat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deutschland-nederland.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pr-stat?post=39929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}