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Pesticide Use-and-risk Reduction in European farming systems with Integrated Pest Management (PURE)
Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,
"To meet both the worldwide demand for food security and new environmental needs, agriculture must increase food production and quality while decreasing its ecological footprint. Ensuring sustainability and competitiveness with reduced pesticide inputs is a major challenge.PURE will provide integrated pest management (IPM) solutions and a practical toolbox for their implementation in key European ...
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Novel integrated strategies for worldwide mycotoxin reduction in the food and feed chains (MycoRed)
Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2013,
MYCORED aims at developing strategic solutions to reduce contamination by mycotoxins of major concern in economically important food and feed chains. The following toxins and commodities are especially considered in the project: aflatoxins, trichothecenes, zearalenone, fumonisins in wheat/maize food and feed chains; ochratoxin A in the grape-wine and wheat chains; and aflatoxins in the dried fruit ...
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Developing quarantine pest detection methods for use by national plant protection organizations (NPPO) and inspection services (QDetect)
Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,
Detection methods are the first tools used by national plant protection organisations (NPPO) and inspection services in order to find incursions of quarantine plant pathogens or pests (Q-pests) across a border, a crucial step to implement Council Directive 2000/29/EC. This is often done visually in the first instance, with support from a laboratory for confirmatory testing and subsequent monitorin ...
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