And just why are there food shortages, food contamination, and implementation of global food policies?

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Activity 2 : ‘Fork to farm’ Food, health and well being FP7 | Theme 2   3 Activities CONSUMER Area 2.2.1 | Consumers FP7-KBBE-2007-1 Networking of food consumer science in Europe and development and application of social and behavioural sciences to food research Food labelling and consumer behaviour Indicative topics of 2008 work programme

• Taste, cognitive perception and mood
• Assessment of intervention measures aimed at promoting healthy eating habits (a starvation diet equal to Third World status)
• Risk perception and communication in the food chain and the role of the media (the media can and does manipulate your food choices)
• Applying behavioral models for the prevention of obesity, with a particular focus on children(the War on Obesity is a UN sponsored program for redistribution of food resources)

Area 2.2.1 | Consumers    Expected impact

• Development of a critical mass in food consumer science (critical mass are the majority of consumers being manipulated into buying into this lethal global food control program)
• Increased dialogue between consumers and food producers, including industry (for purposes of surveillance)
• Enhanced cooperation in the area of consumer science with EU and neighboring countries (by treaty)
• Assessment of inter-relationship between food labeling information and its ‘attractiveness’ (Enter COOL)
• Knowledge on consumer habits with respect to established food-related health issues (surveillance)

Area 2.2.2 | Nutrition FP7-KBBE-2007-1

• Effect of diet on mental performance of children and on aging (many studies have been done since the early 1900′s with a intense focus around WWII)

• Malnutrition in developing countries

• Optical technologies for monitoring the human nutrition status (remote sensing & bio

• Diet for patients in hospitals and at home: disease-related malnutrition

• Impact of exogenous factors in the development of allergy

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• Diet and its effect on the development of intestinal microflora and on the immune system through the entire life span

• Systems Biology and bioanalytical tools for nutrition research

Indicative topics of 2008 work programme

• Optimal cell function and nutrition

Area 2.2.2 | Nutrition     Expected impact

• Harmonised dietary recommendations for specific population groups

Increase the excellence and innovation potentials of the European nutrition research communities by means of stronger links to cognitive- and neuro-sciences

• Promoting health and quality of life (euthanasia) of allergy sufferers by addressing health determinants such as diet and lifestyle conditions

• Development of nutrigenomics and personalized nutrition concepts

Area 2.2.3 | Food processing FP7-KBBE-2007-1

• Smart control for improved food and feed technologies (RFID and other electronic tags)
• Assessment and improvement of existing food and feed technologies
• (Bio-)Technologies for the production of food additives, colorants, and flavors (genetically modified products)
• Nano-devices for quality assurance, food safety and product properties (and to clog the blood vessels, capillaries and lodge in the brain causing conditions similar to Alzheimer’s)

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• Harmonising and integrating research on food technology, safety and nutrition through commonly shared food models
• Network for facilitating the implementation of high-tech processing at industrial scale

Indicative topics of 2008 work programme

• New solutions for improving refrigeration technologies along the food chain
• Sustainable processing, water and and energy savings
• Observing and understanding the micro-structure of foods

Alternatives  for SO2 for food preservation Area 2.2.3 | Food processing     Expected impact Sustainable processes:

• Reduce energy and waste, (sustainable agenda)
• performance improvement (sustainable agenda)
• reduce production costs(sustainable agenda)
• Supporting the competitiveness of European food, in particular SMEs
• Sustainable bio-processes for new and innovative food ingredients from biological sources
• Replacing chemically synthesized additives by natural ones (GMO can be considered natural)
• Innovative process/product control systems based on robust and reliable sensor technologies compatible with food systems

Area 2.2.4 | Food Quality and Safety FP7-KBBE-2007-1

• Exposure to food additives, flavorings, and migrants coming from food contact materials – Dietary intake models
• Detecting contaminants in the food and feed chain
• New methods for the monitoring and control of food-borne viruses
• Innovative and safe packaging

FP7-KBBE-2007-2A Food sampling strategies for risk analysis

• Protecting animal and human health from prions in food, feed and the environment

Indicative topics of 2008 work programme

• Biocides and induced risks of antibiotic resistance in food pathogens
• Effects of combined exposure to chemicals intentionally added to the food chain (such as melamine)

Area 2.2.4 | Food Quality and Safety      Expected impact

• Risk management tools
• Improved toxicological exposure assessments for key potential hazards
• Assessing the hazard posed by chemical risks
• Validated predictive models for behavior of relevant hazards in foods and feed.
• Prevention and control contamination of food and feed with new and emerging viruses.
• Validated models to minimize risks from food-borne viruses
• Novel food packaging technologies.
• Improved and harmonized sampling techniques along the food chain
• Estimation of the past and current exposure risk to humans from TSE

Area 2.2.5 | Environmental impacts and total food chain FP7-KBBE-2007-1

• Assessment of short and long term effects of GMOs on human and animal health
• Converging technologies and their potential for the food area
• Development and application of computational biology as a complementary tool to in vivo and/or in vitro trials

FP7-KBBE-2007-2A Sustainability of the food chain

• Reducing mycotoxin contamination in the food and feed chain
• Indicative topics of 2008 work programme
• Assessment of impacts from climate change on food
• Food chain management
• Assessment of impacts of scenarios affecting food chain management

Area 2.2.5 | Environmental impacts and total food chain

Expected impact

• Techniques for post market monitoring of GMOs
• Converging technologies in the food sector
• Devices and methods for practical and industrial applications in the food sector (e.g. novel structures, processes, and/or systems)
• Computational methods for the massive flow of data emerging from modern experimental approaches in the food sector
• New biological hypotheses for web-lab research on complex biological systems
• Studying simultaneously many variables of the food, nutrition and biology domains (e.g. numeric, sensory and perceptions, structure, biological, chemical and vision food-related data)
• Improving the sustainability of food chains
• Food, health and well being     International co-operation
• Enhancement of the cooperation and excellence in the relevant area between researchers in Europe and in other geographic regions to develop:
• Dietary recommendations for healthy ageing and well being of the elderly based on sound knowledge
• Food consumer science
• Prevention of obesity – Linking with international databases on food composition and consumption
• Functional foods, natural products and bioactive compounds Contribution to the EU commitment towards the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Contribution to regional and European nutrition and health policies

Policy Dialogue S&T co-operation partnership Co-ordination of national policies and activities