Food safety rarely makes headlines, until something goes wrong. Yet even with Europe’s high standards, foodborne disease still affects millions of people every year. Add climate change, shifting supply chains and new production methods, and the risks are becoming harder to predict and manage.
That’s the backdrop to the article published in in Open Access Government, which looks at the HOLiFOOD project and his effort aimed at modernising how we think about food safety risk.
Instead of reacting to problems after they appear, HOLiFOOD is trying to spot risks earlier. The project links together data, models and decision-support tools into a shared European platform, and applies AI and large-scale data analysis to track both known and emerging hazards. It focuses on three everyday food chains (poultry, maize and lentils) and looks at how climate change and other “drivers of change” are reshaping food safety.
Click here to read the full article (pages 58–59).