It was announced today that a major food safety project in Europe and China will be spearheaded by the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen's University Belfast. The program has been made possible after a €10 million award was granted from the European Horizon 2020 program and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology program. The funds are intended to assist the EU and China with improving food safety and fighting food fraud.
According to professor Yongning Wu, chief scientist from the China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, co-ordinator of the Chinese efforts in the project, says, "The EU-China-Safe partnership between our two trading regions is of immense importance to help deliver safe and genuine food to all citizens. Working together across China and the EU will enable us to identify where food fraud is happening, address the root causes and thereby enable us to improve food safety standards for all our citizens."