Food and Environmental Protection: MTC - Research Co-ordination Meetings in 2005

Food and Environmental Protection

Second Research Coordination Meeting (RCM) and Workshop on Testing the Efficiency and Uncertainty of Sample Processing for Analysis of Food Contaminants, Madurai, India, 21 - 26 February 2005.
Scientific Secretary: Josef Brodesser
Final Research Coordination Meeting (RCM) on Use of Irradiation to Ensure Hygienic Quality of Fresh, Pre-Cut Fruits and Vegetables and other Minimally Processed Food of Plant Origin. Islamabad. Pakistan. 25 - 29 July 2005.
This RCM will be held at the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission in Islamabad, Pakistan from 25 - 29 July 2005. All contract and agreement holders have been invited to participate in this meeting. The purpose of the meeting is to evaluate the research work done since the beginning of this Coordinated Research Project (CRP) and especially since the second Research Co-ordination Meeting held in Belfast, UK in April 2003.
The participants have worked under this CRP in three different groups of products (fruits, vegetables and seeds/seed sprouts) and in the determination of the radiosensibility of more than a dozen different pathogenic bacteria.To carry out this experiments, the researchers have used internationally recognized standard methodologies such as BAM, AOAC, ASTM as well others. The data generated under this CRP will provide a solid scientific base to develop guidelines for the use of irradiation as a preventive measure to assure a good hygienic quality of pre-cut and minimally processed fresh fruits and vegetables without affecting their sensorial and commercial quality.
Technical Officer: T. Rubio-Cabello