Enea launches agrifood development project

Italian scientific excellence is now at stake in the field of Food Safety. With the project Metrofood-It aims to create a service platform to control the quality, authenticity and traceability of raw materials and products, creating an interface between industrial innovations and research, development innovative and sustainable agri-food systems.

The project coordinated by Aeneas was financed with EUR 17.8 million from the PNRR (National Recovery and Resilience Plan) and sees the participation of the universities of Bari, Federico II of Naples, Molise, Parma, Sapienza of Rome and Siena and the National Institute of Metrological Research.

Aeneas will make several available infrastructure And laboratories divided into five research centers, operational units and a mix of technologies able to provide services and develop open data useful to researchers, inspection and control authorities and citizens to improve quality, safety, traceability and circular economy.

We wanted to present the project a few days before World Food Day, which takes place every year on October 16, because the contribution is essential to achieve the priority objectives of the agri-food sector. T.

the most important are transparency, especially between micro-enterprises and SMEs, the reduction of fraud and sophistication, food protection and control systems for production processes, digitalisation, support to policy makers and inspection and control agencies, consumer confidence and awareness of the introduction of healthier and eating more sustainably, reducing food waste.

Claudia Zoani, from the Department of Biotechnology and Agro-Industry and coordinator of the project