Member-funded research programme 2011

With around £2M funds available, members have been voting for which research projects they want us to carry out through 2011 and beyond. The following projects will start in January 2011:

• Allergen management in the context of food allergen thresholds
• Antimicrobial surfaces to improve food quality, safety and shelf life and reduce waste
• Assuring the quality and safety of cereal-based ingredients for the food industry
• Food surface decontamination to improve food safety and extend shelf life
• Microbiology of crop products: hazards, risks and controls
• Minimising taints in food and drink
• New approaches to reducing salt in foods
• Novel approaches to developing clean label products
• Reduction and elimination of Listeria using effective hurdle technology
• Reduction of food and packaging waste within the supply chain
• Sustainable crop protection: strategies for integrated crop management and pesticide use

More details on these and on-going projects will be available soon in our Research Programme 2011 document. These projects complement the fifty or so existing projects that make up our Research Programme. Members are able to access summaries of existing projects in the R&D Summaries section of our website (for which they will need their member username and password). For more established projects, members can also obtain copies of the full R&D Reports via the website.