The Food Safety Intelligence Blog
Insights, resources and best practices on digital innovations for food risk prevention
A public data science infrastructure for food and agriculture
We recently gave an interview at the European Commission’s Digital Single Market web site about a 3-year innovation project that we have been coordinating. The project aimed to explore how digital infrastructures may support scientists in food and agriculture, by [...]
Travel restrictions & supplier audits: how to perform a remote assessment
With restrictions applied in a large number of countries, the Food Safety and Quality Assurance (FSQA) experts face a very important challenge: how to assess suppliers and facilities now that they cannot travel to conduct audits? Until today the onsite [...]
Oh captain, my COVID-19 captain
I was looking at the tired faces in the video call. Their eyes were red, with black circles underneath. Their shoulders were rounded and bent. Only one or two made an effort to smile. A dozen of young, bright and [...]
Prediction algorithms for food safety analytics & intelligence: Ioanna’s presentation at ISESS 2020, Wageningen University & Research
Prediction algorithms for food data analytics and intelligence: towards a big data experimentation platform from Big Data Grapes
Why open up access to our global food safety data insights?
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increasing global concern — especially around its impact on the food supply chain. We receive a number of questions, comments and concerns from food safety professionals in our network, as companies look for [...]
“It is the process of community building that really makes a difference”
I recently gave an interview at the European Commission’s Digital Single Market web site about a 3-year innovation project that we have been coordinating. The project aimed to explore how digital infrastructures may support scientists in food and agriculture, by [...]
“How can data innovation drive agricultural & food innovation?”
It was a pleasure to talk to Eline Chivot from the Center for Data Innovation. Her questions focused a lot on how data innovation drives food and agricultural innovation, as well as the business challenges that data innovation can respond [...]
Tailor-made data insights for the global food supply chain
Data about the food supply chain can come from everywhere, including publications and announcements, as well as alerts from official sources, or even unofficially reported incidents from news sites or consumer complaints. Additionally, it could also include company-internal data about [...]
Should we still aim for a collaborative data ecosystem in food & agriculture?
In the GODAN Data Ecosystem White Paper of 2016, it was boldly stated: Agriculture would benefit hugely from a common data ecosystem. Produced and used by diverse stakeholders, from smallholders to multinational conglomerates, a shared global data space would help [...]