ANNUAL REPORT 2022 | 13 information about their diet and lifestyle, which will be correlated with their analytical results. The research was completed in 2022 and is expected to support policy decisions and provide tools to health professionals and women, in order to receive the nutritional benefits of fish during pregnancy and lactation, while minimizing exposure to mercury. 3. “EuroBiotox” – European programme for the establishment of validated procedures for the detection and identification of biological toxins (2017-2022). 4. “Carobs, the black gold of Cyprus – When science meets the industry” (2019-2022). The Project is characterised by strong interdisciplinary synergy between its scientific, industrial and commercial works and aims to play an important role in the development and restoration of the carob industry in Cyprus towards a new, modern form. The basic chemical, biochemical and biological properties of the Cyprus carobs will be highlighted through a broad scientific investigation which can be, on the one hand, the basis for the production of new products and on the other the discovery of important factors that will determine the productivity of the Cyprus carob trees. 5. “Life with Vultures” (LIFE) (2019-2023). The Project supports the overall effort to rescue the vulture (considered a “natural cleaner” of the countryside) and at the same time reduce the illegal use of poison bait in the Cypriot countryside, which has an impact on public health. 6. “DiTECT – Digital TECnologies as an enabler for a conTinuous transformation of food safety system” (2020-2023). DiTECT will develop an integrated framework for real- time detection, assessment and migration of biological, chemical and environmental contaminants throughout the food supply chain (food groups: corn, foods for young children, poultry, beef, milk and fish). Bringing together research, industrial and food authority partners representing the agro-food industry in the EU and China, DiTECT aspires to establish the foundation for future food safety monitoring platforms, through the development of a standards-based, modular, Big Data-enabled platform, capable of accurately predicting food safety parameters of a given food product based on data collected in real-time via cost-efficient sensors, at crop, grain storage, livestock and, finally, in the food supply, incorporating blockchain processes. DiTECT research programme is funded by the EU under Horizon 2020. 7. “PARC – Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals” (2022-2029). PARC is an EUwide research and innovation partnership programme to support EU and national chemical risk assessment and risk management bodies with new data, knowledge, methods, networks and skills to address current, emerging and novel chemical safety challenges. PARC will facilitate the transition to next generation risk assessment to better protect human health and the environment, in line with the Green Deal’s zero-pollution ambition for a toxic free environment and will be an enabler for the future EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability. The Partnership brings together Ministries and national public health and risk assessments agencies, as well as research organisations and academia from almost all of EU Member States. https://www.eu-parc.eu / PARC Kick-off meeting 11/5/2022
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