P.O.Box 360, 3700 AJ Zeits, The Netherlands
Tel + 31 30 6944943
Fax +31 30 6944901
E-mail: notermans@voeding.tno.nl
Website: http://www.voeding.tno.nl

Role and Contribution 

Workplan

WP1	Evaluation of existing models Collecting growth data, etc.
WP2	Collecting data and development of database of prevalence and concentration of important pathogenic organisms and spoilage organisms on meat products in Europe. Collecting data and development database on meat storage conditions in Europe Database on European consumption patters Assess risk of meat products at the time of consumption using a probabilistic approach based on microbial prevalence and concentration, meat chill chain conditions and validated predictive models from predictive software and WP1 and dose-response from state of art epidimiological data Establishing of an internet site
WP5	Application research on SMAS.
WP6	Collecting data consumers attitudes Inquiring industrial acceptance of the TTI

Research Personnel

Qualifications

TNO Nutrition and Food Research Institute operates internationally in the areas of research covering all aspects of food production. Emphasis is placed on biotechnology, quality control, analysis and safety assessment of food products and additives and ingredients used in their production. In the project especially the department of Risk Management and Microbiology (RMM) is involved. RMM works in the field of applied microbiological research for the benefit microbiological quality and safety of (food) products as well as for the development of new and improved products and processes involving micro-organisms and their metabolites. Primary fields of activities are (i) prevention and control of pathogens, (ii) hygienic design, (iii) food preservation, (iv) risk analysis, (v) modelling and validation.

Dr. Notermans was ducated at the Agriculture University Wageningen in food technology and microbiology. Twenty years research experiences in food microbiology at the National Institute of Public Health and 5 years experiences in applied food safety at TNO Nutrition and Food Research. Dr. Notermans is involved in many (microbial) risk assessment projects mostly as project leader and was among others member of the working group microbiology of the Scientific Committee of Food of the EU.