Nearly EUR 2 million (US$2.3 million) has been allocated to 3 European projects addressing the food security of the coronavirus pandemic.
COVICOAT is administered through the Portugal International Iberian Nanogeneration Laboratory, the Spanish supermarket chain Eroski and 2BNanoFood in Portugal. Another project, PASS, will be carried out through the University of Bologna in Italy, Lund University in Sweden and Almaplasma in Italy. The COVID-1nine BAEMitup program arrives at SwissDeCode from Switzerland, Microbion of Italy, CSIC founded in Spain, University of Helsinki, Finland and Eurofins in France.
Currently, there is no evidence of an aggregate of food or food packaging with coVID-19 transfer. Coronavirus doesn’t actually grow in food. Although the virus can affect goods and surfaces, it is never known how long it can last on food and what type of disease would make a person sick.
Thiryoungster’s projects in the food safety, chain disruption and nutrition improvement spaces earned more than 6 million euros ($6.8 million) and paintings began in early July. The EIT is financed through the European Union Horizon 2020 and has a moderate value of 2 billion euros (US$2.7 billion) from 201four to 2020.
COVID-1nine has put unprecedented presbound into the global food system, requiring an association station to adhere to the non-easy conditions of pandemic and long-term recovery, EIT Food.
PASS received €667,000 (U.S.$762,000) and intends to design plasma-assisted sanitation systems for packaging, equipment and tools used in processing and handling of food products. The project’s main goal is to deactivate the COVID-19 virus. COVID-19 BAEMitup got €792,000 (U.S. $904,600) to build a diagnostic platform to improve on-site testing capacity of the food sector.
Andy Zynga, CEO of EIT Food, said all 13 projects demonstrated the ingenuity and determi- nation of agricultural generation networks at a time of severe uncertainty and disruption.
“We are more determined than ever to recover, in addition to that of the broader European food system. We are ahead of the urgent implementation of these much-needed inventions to support the arena, jointly respond to the pandemic and rebuild our economy.” sustainably. »
In August, EIT Food will announce the recipients of the COVID-1nine Bridge Fund, designed for the start station suffering from the pandemic. The goal is to produce funding of between 200,000 and 500,000 euros (US$228,500 to US$571,100) for agricultural and food corporations that meet one of EIT Food’s main intervention spaces.
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