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 [...]
Prediction algorithms for food data analytics and intelligence: towards a big data experimentation platform from Big Data Grapes
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 [...]
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 [...]
The 9th Plenary Meeting of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) took place in Barcelona, Spain, from 5 to 7 April 2017. The RDA Plenary Meetings constitute a major event where more than 4000 members from 100 countries come together to [...]
On February 20th 2017, we had the pleasure to host a workshop at the premises of the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), co-organized together with the colleagues from the Laboratory of Viticulture. Delegates from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), [...]