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Innovative food/feed

About the project

Innovation is one of the key drivers in accelerating the transition to sustainable, healthy, and inclusive food systems from primary production to consumption and can contribute to developing solutions and overcoming barriers. Innovation in the food and feed production sector has been substantial over the last two decades, both in terms of the production technologies it employs as well as the products it brings forward. Changes in production technologies and global supply chains, along with the growing need to secure food and feed, to ensure the sustainable use of resources and to address societal concerns provide key drivers for future developments. Innovative production technologies can drive a new generation of new foods and feeds sources, necessitating multifaceted pre-market evaluation to protect the human and animal health and interests.

To allow EFSA to adapt its risk assessment approaches to these new realities while anticipating potential risks to food and feed safety, the Authority is implementing a 2,5-year project on Ensuring preparedness for the assessment of safety of new food/feed sources and production technologies.  

Comprehensive mapping of relevant stakeholders for future engagement

One of the main components of the project aims at realizing a continuous and systematic engagement with a broad group of relevant stakeholders.  

To get a comprehensive picture of players involved, EFSA is now carrying out a detailed stakeholder mapping in the relevant sectors at EU and international level, such as industry, NGOs, consumer organisations, the scientific community, innovators, regulators, risk assessors and risk communicators.

Once completed, the mapping will be at the basis of engagement opportunities that will contribute to building a network to detect innovative food/feed sources and production technologies and try to identify potential emerging issues.

Who we are looking for and how you can apply

For this network, EFSA aims to attract a wide variety of stakeholders, including:

  • From the Europe Union and beyond
  • From across the food and feed value chain/system
  • Consumer organisations, as well as industry, NGOs, the scientific community, innovators, regulators, risk assessors and risk communicators, innovation actors, etc.
  • Active in or with expertise in the area of food and feed innovation, including fields such as:
    • Nanotechnology
    • Biotechnology
    • Innovative processing technologies
    • 3D printing
    • Alternative protein sources
    • Alternative food sources of aquaculture origin
    • Alternative feed sources for aquaculture
    • Alternative carbohydrates sources
    • Novel plants-based food/feed
    • Fungi and microorganisms
    • Nano-enabled nutrients
    • Active / intelligent packaging

If you are interested in being included in our stakeholder mapping, register using the link here. This will ensure you will be considered for any future participatory activities as part of this EFSA project.

Any organisation or actors whose interests and expertise will be considered relevant for the scope of the project will be included in the mapping.

If you are interested, please register at your earliest convenience. This call will remain open for the entire duration of the project. EFSA reserves the right to subsequently contact individual stakeholders as needed for specific participatory activities as deemed appropriate.