The overall objective of the project SAFEMEAT is to study and
develop different solutions and technological interventions ad-hoc measures to
respond in an innovative way, and at the same time economically viable, the need
to qualify the production and increase the content of competitive 'entire sector
in relation to:
- the food safety of products placed on the
market;
- the shelf-life of products (both in terms of
duration that control of it);
- the degree of innovativeness of the product (as
opposed to changing application that comes as much by market participants that
by the consumers themselves);
- the environmental impact associated with the
mode of packaging materials;
- the growing need for information on the origin,
composition and quality of food products as well as production processes adopted
is expressed by market participants (and in particular by the GDO) and by
consumers themselves;
- regulatory
constraints to be met to gain access to foreign markets.
The research activities planned for the five cornerstones of the project,
placing on technological frontier and promoting a strong partnership between
enterprises and research organizations, also respond to the strategic objective
of a general to promote the technological upgrading of the companies involved,
but the the same time to strengthen the competitive ability of the supply chain
of industrial processing of meat that is in the regional and national economy
plays a strategic role, also in terms of potential penetration of foreign
markets, due to the strong appreciation of the typical products of the Italian
culinary tradition.