Minutes of the focus group meeting
The deliverable 2.1 presents the minutes of the Focus group meeting, held as part of task 2.1 -Expert elicitation- of WP2.
The aim of this meeting was to present and discuss new methods and tools that are going to be developed within this WP, also ensuring that methods are being developed according with stakeholders’ needs.
The meeting was a half-day focus group meeting online with the participation of 16 stakeholders, including the following institutions:
- Cereals and Grains Association
- CNSA-Comitato Nazionale Sicurezza Alimentare, Ministero della Salute
- OEVR Puglia; Mérieux NutriSciences
- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Umbria e delle Marche “Togo Rosati”
- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM
- ICC – International Association for Cereal Science and Technology
- Devenish Nutrition
- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Puglia e della Basilicata
- ISEKI-Food Association -European Association for Integrating Food Science and Engineering Knowledge Into the Food Chain
- MoniQA Association – International Association for Monitoring and Quality Assurance in the Total Food Supply Chain
- Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety
- International Association for Cereal Science and Technology.
Overall, the meeting was fruitful to discuss the new methods and tools that are going to be developed within WP2.
Both internal and external experts highlighted that these methods meet their needs and judged them promising. As such, stakeholders gave their availability to contribute in the validation step. Moreover, given the interest raised by the activities of WP2, on request of stakeholders, a mid-term and a final focus group meeting will be held to present partial and final results of WP2, allowing also the dissemination of project results.
