SPIE 2018
19-23 August 2018, San Diego (USA) | SPIE 2018
19-23 August 2018, San Diego (USA) | SPIE 2018
4-6 December 2018, Vienna (Austria) |ICT 2018: Imagine Digital – Connect Europe More info: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/events/ict-2018-imagine-digital-connect-europe
13 -16 November 2018, Hanover (Germany) | EuroTier 2018 From 13th to 16th November 2018, EuroTier opened its gates to an international audience: more than 150,000 visitors on a 250,000 m2 indoor hall space with a fresh update on the state of art and the latest innovations in cattle, pig and poultry farming. The show…
21 -22 June 2018, Dresden (Germany) | M6 Internal Meeting The M6 internal project meeting of MOLOKO took place at the Fraunhofer Institute FEP, Dresden (Germany) from the 21st to the 22nd June, 2018 as a noon-to-noon event. The meeting was opened by the coordinator Stefano Toffanin and by Christian May, head of the department “Flexible Organic Electronics”…
18 -22 June 2018, Strasbourg (France) | E-MRS Spring 2018 Mario Prosa from CNR participated to the conference E-MRS Spring 2018 with an oral presentation entitled “Enhanced electroluminescence in hybrid organic light-emitting transistors through a conjugated polar polymer interlayer”.
04 -14 June 2018, Perugia (Italy) | CIMTEC 2018 CIMTEC 2018 – 14th International Conference on Modern Materials and Technologies – was held in Perugia, Italy, June 4 to 14, 2018. CIMTEC 2018 consisted of the 14th International Ceramics Congress (June 4-8) and of the 8th Forum on New Materials (June 10-14), each of them including a number of…
03 July 2018, Piana di Monte Verna (Italy) |Project MOLOKO – progress status of the works @Parmalat On 3 July 2018, Parmalat organized the meeting “Project MOLOKO – progress status of the works” with the aim of illustrating the purposes of the MOLOKO Project and the role of Parmalat in the project to the Working…
16 May 2018, Florence (Italy) | European Photonics Roadshow Florence The first European Photonics Roadshow organised by the EPRISE project team was held in Florence, Italy, and it was focused on the Agriculture and Food markets. The event was hosted by the CNR IFAC team, together with the Tuscany Region. The main goal of this…
28-31 May 2018, Belfast (Northern Ireland) | Belfast Summit on global food integrity 2018 ASSET 2018 will bring together representatives from international and governmental agencies, the academic and industrial research community, non-governmental organisations and the commercial & technical leaders in the food industry and its supply chain to discuss, debate and provide leadership on tackling a range…
10-11 April 2018, Brussels (Belgium) | PIC International Conference 2018 PIC International 2018 will provide timely, comprehensive coverage of every important sector within the photonics integrated circuits industry. Sales of PICs are soaring, with their deployment helping to boost the capacity of networks and data centres. To aid this industry, we are strengthening the relationships…
The early detection of contamination of food enabled by MOLOKO will increase food security, food safety, and the protection of health of consumers
Problem:
The consumption of staphylococcus enterotoxin which rapidly grows in milk is considered one of the most common forms of bacterial foodborne outbreaks worldwide. The health implications of these hazards make up the need for an effective detection system, such as MOLOKO sensor.
Solution:
Raw milk distributors will be mostly affected by MOLOKO, as they will be able to ensure highest quality at cheaper costs. Milk and dairy products account for 5% of all incriminated foods in staphylococcal outbreaks in Europe.
Problem:
During industrial milk treatment and processing, one major issue is the quality control of nutritional parameters.
Solution:
The dairy industry checks for different contaminants and residues, pathogens and adulterants. MOLOKO will allow to detect the presence of alterations of milk in a cost effective and simple manner, so that the adulterated milk can be discarded before it is inserted in the processing line.
Problem:
One major issue in bulk milk handling is linked to the transportation of contaminated milk. Bulk milk handling also causes high costs due to road transport of milk which does not meet quality standards, and thus will be discarded at processing sites.
Solution:
The use of MOLOKO sensor as handheld device by food operators allows for early detection of contaminated milk tanks (before they are combined in the tanker) or contaminated whole tanks (before they are transported to milk processing facilities).
Problem:
Most of the milk loss during production is due to dairy cow sickness, leading both to production of contaminated milk lots and the use of antibiotics to prevent and treat cow infections.
Solution:
MOLOKO will allow very early detection of contaminated milk by operating (i) directly on the milking machine by excluding automatically animals not suitable for milking and (ii) on batches of milk in order to isolate the single contaminated lots and prevent to spoil larger amounts of quality milk, thus leading to lower costs related to the production phase.