Teagasc wins EU food safety contract

TEAGASC has been awarded a major EU- funded contract to develop European-wide food safety blueprints for farm production, processing, retailing and the catering of meat products.

The project, worth €500,000, is led by Dr Declan Bolton of the Teagasc National Food Centre in Dublin. It involves a consortium of scientists and industry partners in nine EU states, Poland, Hungary, the US and Canada.

The initiative will also review how food poisoning outbreaks are investigated.