PRESS RELEASE: MoniQA to be presented at the World Exposition 2010 in Shanghai
(Vienna, Shanghai, 28 May 2010) Dr. Roland E. Poms, ICC Secretary General and Coordinator of the MoniQA Network of Excellence, was invited to present MoniQA results and achievements at the World Exposition in Shanghai, China. MoniQA is among five EU funded projects that were invited by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Health & Consumers (DG SANCO) to highlight its mission in a seminar on "Research for Healthy Life" to take place 6 June 2010 in Shanghai, China.
The "Research For Healthy Life" seminar included contributions by several high-level speakers, such as Bernard Van Goethem (acting Deputy Director General of DG SANCO), Antonio Di Giulio (Head of Unit "Food - Health - Well-being" - Directorate General for Research), Riitta Maijala (Director Risk Assessment, EFSA - European Food Safety Agency, Elke Anklam (European Commission's Joint Research Centre - JRC), Huailin Li (President of the Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine), Yu Tawai (Director General Food Safety - Office Import/Export - AQSIQ) and others.
Only 5 EU funded projects were invited to present their results in the frame of this seminar: MoniQA (Monitoring and Qualtiy Assurance in the total food supply chain), PATHOGENCOMBAT (Fighting new pathogens in the food chain), VEG-i-Trade (Impact of climate change and globalisation on safety of fresh produce), FACET (Exposure assessment to food additives, flavourings and FCM) and Q-PORK (Animal welfare/zootechnics/food quality/consumer expectation).
