County of Arkadi, 74110, Greece
Tel: +30-28310-86700
Fax: +30-28310-58035
E-mail:cretafarn@otenet.gr
Website: http://www.cretafarm.gr

Role and Contribution

Participant 7 leads WP5 and contributes to the following main objectives of the project:

• Combination of validated pathogen growth models with data on prevalence/concentration, dose response and chill chain conditions for risk assessment with and without SMAS application.
  
• Evaluation of the applicability and effectiveness of SMAS in real conditions of meat distribution. Assessment of the industry acceptance of the TTI and the concept of chill chain management.
  
• Evaluation of European consumer attitude on use of TTI and correlation to quality.

By policy of the company analyses involving pathogen are not performed in the in house laboratory but in the subcontracted laboratory (University of Crete, Laboratory of Bacreriology and Zoonoses) which supports the production unit for such work. This will be done under supervision of the principal scientist and the scientific team of the company involved in the project.