Project Summary

Promoting European Traceability Excellence & Research (PETER) is an essential Specific Support Action that provides an international forum for focusing and disseminating the results of European Commission's €100M investment in research on food traceability. There is an urgent need for rapid consolidation and dissemination of European expertise to developing countries and SMEs so that they can have access to the global markets that now exist.

Announcing the final PETER conferences

Summary of PETER findings - Torremolinos

The PETER project is nearing its conclusion. Join the final PETER conference in Torremolinos, near Malaga, Spain, on Friday April 25 2008.

This event will run alongside the 4th Annual Meeting of the TRACE project being held at the same venue from April 23 - 25.

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PETER partners take lead role in major Malaysian traceability conference

Representatives of virtually all the partners in the EU's PETER Project on traceability in the food supply chain will be among the speakers at a major traceability conference to be held in Malaysia from April 1 - 2, 2008.

"Food Traceability - The Key To Global Market Access" has been structured to help stakeholders in the SE Asia food and feedstuffs supply chains to increase their exports to the European Union through a better understanding of traceability requirements.

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Project progress

Over the last two years project partners have delivered presentations at a number of international conferences, along with co-ordinating EU food traceability initiatives. Key stage targets have been reached, including:

  • providing an international forum for focussing, disseminating and exploiting EU research on food and feed traceability;
  • improving collaboration between European projects;
  • reducing duplication among on-going projects;
  • maximising the effectiveness of projects through shared objectives and results;
  • creating added-value for project work by identifying research gaps and areas of potentially complementary activity; achieving a high level of dissemination involving 422 project participants.

In addition, it has highlighted a number of important research products available from the project partners:

  • TraceFood - a framework that makes it easier to know from where food products originate and what has happened to them (see www.tracefood.org)
  • TraceCore XML - ensuring that relevant, comparable and searchable information can be gathered and shared in a standard way through a supply chain for all food products (www.tracefood.org)
  • FoodTrace Generic Framework - ensuring smooth and efficient transfer of information along and across every stage of food chains with the ability to plan, model, validate and implement (www.eufoodtrace.org)
  • FoodTrace: Guidelines for Data Capture - the business, process and quality drivers for realising harmonious traceability systems and accommodating cross supply chain complexities (www.eufoodtrace.org)

Read the full press release here and the full report here (Brochure 2 page 1 & Brochure 2 page 2)


Peter Events

25th April, 2008 Spain
PETER final conference More

1 - 2 April 2008 Malaysia
PETER coming to Malaysia More

17 - 20 October 2007 Italy
PETER exhibited at the CIBUS TEC exhibition. More

4 October 2007 Italy
Scientific Symposium: Food Safety and Quality, Nutrition and Nano-Technology More

May 2007 South Korea
PETER consortium members presented to delegates attending the International Symposium on Traceability for Food Safety, in Suwon, South Korea. [PDF]

26-27 April 2007 Crete
PETER consortium members presented to delegates attending the TRACE Projects 3rd Annual Meeting in Crete. More

11-13 October, 2006 CSL York

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