BIOTOXDoc - Safe food in a world of changing climate: Doctoral training to develop novel control, mitigation and risk assessment methods for biotoxins

BIOTOXDoc - 气候变化世界中的安全食品：开发新型生物毒素控制、缓解和风险评估方法的博士培训

• 批准号: EP/Y02964X/1
• 负责人: Christopher Elliott
• 金额: $ 33.22万
• 依托单位: Queen's University Belfast
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY02964X%2F1
• 关键词: BIOTOXDoc; Safe; food; world; changing

There is a massive and urgent need to ensure security and safety of the food supply of the growing world population. The ongoing war in Ukraine as well as the energy crisis emphasized this even further. However, agriculture and food industries continue to be vulnerable to problems of contamination with biotoxins produced by plants, algae and particularly by fungi. Global warming and extreme weather events make the occurrence of these toxic metabolites even less predictable. Alarmingly, the EU currently faces a lack of food safety specialists, as recognised by the European Commission. These challenges lay the foundation for BIOTOXDoc - Safe food in a world of changing climate: The doctoral training programme to develop novel control, mitigation and risk assessment methods for biotoxins. The objective of BIOTOXDoc is to train doctoral students (PhDs) in a broad range of skills and complementary competencies - necessary to innovate various scientific fields and approaches, so urgently needed to control and mitigate biotoxins - by taking advantage of a multidisciplinary, multi-sectoral team of world-class experts. The training and research will include development of early warning systems and on-site testing by portable mass spectrometry. PhDs will develop novel detoxification strategies of biotoxins and will assess the combined toxicity of co-occurring biotoxins. Moreover, PhDs will develop much-needed rapid as well as confirmatory tests for biotoxins and aim to close major gaps in our current knowledge of biotoxins. The major common link between all PhDs, working on a wide range of biotoxins at different points along the food and feed chain, is the influence of climate change on biotoxin occurrence and the resulting demand of revised strategies to mitigate its impact on the European population.

迫切需要确保日益增长的世界人口的粮食供应的安全。乌克兰持续的战争以及能源危机进一步强调了这一点。然而，农业和食品工业仍然容易受到植物、藻类、特别是真菌产生的生物毒素污染的问题的影响。全球变暖和极端天气事件使得这些有毒代谢物的发生更难以预测。令人担忧的是，正如欧盟委员会所承认的那样，欧盟目前面临着缺乏食品安全专家的问题。这些挑战为BIOTOXDoc -气候变化世界中的安全食品奠定了基础：博士培训计划旨在开发生物毒素的新型控制，缓解和风险评估方法。BIOTOXDoc的目标是通过利用多学科，多部门的世界级专家团队，培养博士生（博士）广泛的技能和补充能力-创新各种科学领域和方法所必需的，迫切需要控制和减轻生物毒素。培训和研究将包括开发预警系统和利用便携式质谱仪进行现场测试。博士将开发生物毒素的新型解毒策略，并评估共存生物毒素的综合毒性。此外，博士将开发急需的快速以及生物毒素的确认性测试，旨在填补我们目前对生物毒素知识的主要空白。所有博士之间的主要共同联系，在食品和饲料链沿着不同点上研究各种生物毒素，是气候变化对生物毒素发生的影响，以及由此产生的修订战略的需求，以减轻其对欧洲人口的影响。