Strategic Priorities of the Scientific Plan of the European Research Infrastructure METROFOOD-RI for Promoting Metrology in Food and Nutrition

Tsimidou, Maria Z.; Ordoudi, Stella A.; Mantzouridou, Fani Th.; Nenadis, Nikolaos; Stelzl, Tamara; Rychlik, Michael; Belc, Nastasia; Zoani, Claudia

doi:10.3390/foods11040599

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“…To meet the new requirements related to the analytical determination of nutraceutical substances and natural substances with protective effects on health, new RMs are either required or closely related to the new analytical needs and the emerging challenges of food safety (e.g., application of nanotechnologies or biotechnologies). The adoption of new RMs to be used for ensuring the origin and traceability of raw materials and products as well as for identifying frauds and adulterations is associated with a particularly urgent necessity ( 50 ). According to this perspective, new RMs are becoming more important in order to recognize genetic markers and chemical compositions and to confirm the geographical and/or biological (botanical, zoological, and genetic) origin of raw materials and finished goods.…”

Section: Metrology In Nutritional Profiling Of Foodmentioning

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An overview of nutritional profiling in foods: Bioanalytical techniques and useful protocols

Mondal¹,

Chakraborty²,

Bera³

et al. 2023

Front. Nutr.

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Maintaining a nutritious diet is essential for humans if they want to live a healthier life. Several food businesses and food safety organizations play a significant role and offer useful ways for improving nutritional quality that assists consumers in making informed selections. Making poor food choices and consuming unhealthy meals are the main causes of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Nutritional profiling (NP) models are developed to evaluate the nutritional value, calorie content, and the amount of micronutrients and macronutrients contained in a given food accompanied by additional details on the nutritional anomaly provided by published standard nutrients and nutritional databases. To construct an ideal nutritional model that can facilitate food consumption, bioanalytical methods such as chromatography, microscopic techniques, molecular assays, and metabolomics can be applied. With the use of these technologies, one can learn more about the health advantages of nutrition and how to prevent disease. A wider element of NP is also provided by the developing technologies in the area of nutrition research, such as nanotechnology, proteomics, and microarray technology. In this review, we are focusing on the different bioanalytical techniques and the various protocols of NP and their application and refinement of the models. We have evaluated various NP techniques currently used in the food industry for the detection of different components present in food items.

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Section: Metrology In Nutritional Profiling Of Foodmentioning

confidence: 99%

An overview of nutritional profiling in foods: Bioanalytical techniques and useful protocols

Mondal¹,

Chakraborty²,

Bera³

et al. 2023

Front. Nutr.

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“…However, continued cooperation and sharing of data between compilers and users, within an integrated approach for agro-food, nutrition, and health, are key to success. Management of data at agro-food, nutrition, and health interfaces is a priority, but integrating FCDBs and infrastructures (interoperability) can only be achieved if approaches are applied based on metrological principles [81][82][83][84][85][86].…”

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Food Composition Data and Tools Online and Their Use in Research and Policy: EuroFIR AISBL Contribution in 2022

Durazzo¹,

Astley

Kapsokefalou

et al. 2022

Nutrients

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Food, nutrition, and health are linked, and detailed knowledge of nutrient compositions and bioactive characteristics is needed to understand these relationships. Additionally, increasingly these data are required by database systems and applications. This communication aims to describe the contribution to databases and nutrition fields as well as the activities of EuroFIR AISBL; this member-based, non-profit association was founded to ensure sustained advocacy for food information in Europe and facilitate improved data quality, storage, and access as well as encouraging wider exploitation of food composition data for both research and commercial purposes. In addition to the description of its role and main objectives, a snapshot of EuroFIR AISBL’s activities over the years is also given using a quantitative research literature analysis approach. The focus of this communication is to provide descriptions and updates of EuroFIR’s online tools, i.e., FoodEXplorer, eBASIS, and PlantLIBRA, by highlighting the main uses and applications. Integrating food-related infrastructures and databases, following standardized and harmonized approaches, and considering interoperability and metrological principles are significant challenges. Ongoing activities and future plans of EuroFIR AISBL are highlighted, including, for instance, work within the Food Nutrition Security Cloud (FNS-Cloud) to make food, nutrition, and (food) security data more findable, accessible, interoperable, and ultimately reusable.

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“…METROFOOD-RI-Infrastructure for promoting metrology in food and nutrition [129] is a Research Infrastructure (RI) under development in the frame of EFSRI (European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures) [130], for the domain Health and Food [131]. It provides high-quality metrology services in food and nutrition, for enhancing food quality and safety, and supporting the traceability and sustainability of the agrifood systems, in a view of circular economy, comprising an important cross-section of highly interdisciplinary and interconnected fields throughout the food value chain, including agrifood, sustainable development, food safety, quality, traceability and authenticity, environmental safety, and human health (Figure 3).…”

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Food Safety Assessment: Overview of Metrological Issues and Regulatory Aspects in the European Union

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The safety of the food we consume has a direct impact on individual and population health and affects the economic growth of the region where food security is practised and enhanced. The central goal of the European Commission’s Food Safety policy is to ensure a high level of protection of human health covering the whole supply chain. In recent years, great attention has been paid to food testing and the application of metrological tools to support food safety. The global food market and national and international food safety regulations have created a huge demand for the measurement traceability and comparability of analytical results that are independent of time or space boundaries. This review provides an overview of the European food safety policy and regulation, with a focus on the measurement-related elements of the European Union (EU) food law. It also highlights how the application of analytical techniques, with particular reference to separation approaches, and metrological tools can ensure the control of certain contaminants that nowadays represent the main challenges for food safety (e.g., mycotoxins, nanoparticles, emerging and process contaminants). METROFOOD-RI-Infrastructure for promoting metrology in food and nutrition is therefore described in this context. This European research infrastructure has been developed and is being implemented in the frame of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) to support metrology in food and nutrition and establish a strategy allowing reliable and comparable analytical measurements in food across the entire process line, from primary producers to consumers, and making data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR).

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Strategic Priorities of the Scientific Plan of the European Research Infrastructure METROFOOD-RI for Promoting Metrology in Food and Nutrition

Cited by 7 publications

References 63 publications

An overview of nutritional profiling in foods: Bioanalytical techniques and useful protocols

An overview of nutritional profiling in foods: Bioanalytical techniques and useful protocols

Food Composition Data and Tools Online and Their Use in Research and Policy: EuroFIR AISBL Contribution in 2022

Food Safety Assessment: Overview of Metrological Issues and Regulatory Aspects in the European Union

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