This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 861915. Coordinated by George-John Nychas gjn@aua.gr

 

The 27th International ICFMH Conference “FoodMicro 2022” was held in Athens, Greece on August 28-31, 2022. The DiTECT project was represented by numerous works either as oral or poster presentations. The partners had the opportunity to present the concept and the philosophy of the project as well as part of their findings so far.

Topics – among others – covered by the research groups were related to
a. Investigation of new tools and acquisition of further information on quantitative microbiological risk assessment,
b. Prevalence and characterization of biological (e.g. microorganisms) and chemical (e.g. toxins) hazards,
c. Investigation of rapid methods for the food quality assessment with the contribution of Information Technology (data analysis, IT-based platforms, data management etc).

 
WORKS PRESENTED AT FOODMICRO 2022
AUTh

Antimicrobial resistance of Escherichia coli at single cell level (oral presentation)
Papagianeli S1, Stasinou K1, Aspridou Z1, Koutsoumanis K1
1Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Hygiene, Department of Food Science and Technology, School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Quantitative Microbiological Risk Assessment: What about a real-time product specific decision making tool?
Stathas L
1, Aspridou Z1, Koutsoumanis K1
1Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Environment, School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Quantitative Microbiological Risk Assessment (QMRA) of fresh poultry spoilage
Tsaloumi S
1, Koutsoumanis K1
1Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Hygiene, Department of Food Science and Technology, School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Deeper insight into stochastic microbial inactivation
Aspridou Z
1, Koutsoumanis K1
1Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Insights into the behavioral heterogeneity of individual bacterial cells
Stasinou K1, Papagianeli S1, Aspridou Z1, Koutsoumanis K1
1Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Hygiene, Department of Food Science and Technology, School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

University of Maastricht (UMAAS)
Data standards, data sharing and Food Safety: Technical or social challenges? (oral presentation)
Christopher Brewster, Maastricht University
 
Cranfield University (CU)
An Information Technology-based platform for microbiological quality
Mohareb F, Fengou L2, Heffer S1, Schultz N3, Carstensen J3, Nychas G2
1Bioinformatics Group, Department of Agrifood, School of Water, Energy and Environment Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, 2Laboratory of Microbiology and Biotechnology of Foods, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 3Videometer A/S, Herlev, Denmark
Shandong Agricultural University (SDAU)
Prevalence and characterization of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) isolated from Chinese beef processing plants (oral presentation)
Jiang X1, Luo X1, Mao Y1, NYCHAS G2, Zhang Y1, Dong P1
1Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, China, 2Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece
 
HAO
Rapid microbiological spoilage assessment of chilled chicken meat using non-invasive spectroscopic sensors (oral presentation)

Dourou D1, Vitsou-Anastasiou S1,2, Doulgeraki A1, Argyri A1, Chorianopoulos N1, Nychas G2, Tassou C1
1Institute of Technology of Agricultural Products, Hellenic Agricultural Organization – DIMITRA, Athens, Greece, 2Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Biotechnology, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, GreeceAssessment of the occurrence of Ochratoxin A in commercially available corn and corn-based products from the Greek market
Froutis G1,2, Argyri A1, Doulgeraki A1, Chronopoulos M2, Nychas G2, Tassou C1
1Institute of Technology of Agricultural Products, Hellenic Agricultural Organization – DIMITRA, Athens, Greece, 2Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Biotechnology, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Growth patterns of luminous Photobacterium on chilled chicken meat and genotypic characterization of individual isolates
Dourou D1, Vitsou-Anastasiou S1,2, Doulgeraki A1, Argyri A1, Chorianopoulos N1, Nychas G2, Tassou C1
1Hellenic Agricultural Organisation DIMITRA, Institute of Technology of Agricultural Products, Lycovrissi, Attica, Greece, 2Agricultural University of Athens, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Biotechnology, Athens, Greece

AUA (LMBF)
DiTECT – Tracking Biological Hazards & Contaminants Across Food Chain within a EU-CHINA project (no.861915)

Nychas G1, Tassou C2, Dong P3, Zhang Y3, Koutsoumanis K4, Luo X3, Mohareb F5
1 Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 2 Hellenic Agricultural Organisation DIMITRA, Athens, Greece, 3 Shangdong Agricultural University, Shangdong, China, 4 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, 5 Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK  

Discrimination of milk from different animal species using FTIR features

Fengou L1, Tsakanikas P1, Manthou E1, Stamatiou A1, Nychas G1
1 Laboratory of Microbiology and Biotechnology of Foods, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece  

Multispectral Imaging (MSI) coupled with machine learning algorithms for the microbiological quality assessment and discrimination of seaweed Alaria esculenta
Lytou A1, Tsakanikas P1, Karnavas A1, Nychas G1
1Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece  

Microbial quality, safety and diversity of brown algae Alaria esculenta deriving from two geographical areas
Schoina 
E1, Lytou A1, Nychas G1
1Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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