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

迫切需要确保不断增长的世界人口的粮食供应安全保障。乌克兰正在进行的战争以及能源危机进一步强调了这一点。然而，农业和食品业仍然容易受到植物、藻类特别是真菌产生的生物毒素的污染问题。全球变暖和极端天气事件使这些有毒代谢物的发生更加难以预测。令人担忧的是，正如欧盟委员会所承认的那样，欧盟目前面临着食品安全专家短缺的问题。这些挑战为BIOTOXDoc--气候变化世界中的安全食品奠定了基础：开发生物毒素的新控制、缓解和风险评估方法的博士培训计划。BIOTOXDoc的目标是通过利用一支由世界级专家组成的多学科、多部门的团队，培养博士生广泛的技能和互补能力--这是创新各种科学领域和方法所必需的，是控制和减轻生物毒素的迫切需要。培训和研究将包括开发早期预警系统和通过便携式质谱仪进行现场测试。PHD将开发新的生物毒素解毒策略，并将评估共生生物毒素的联合毒性。此外，博士将开发急需的生物毒素快速和确证测试，旨在弥合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是，在食品和食物链的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，以及由此产生的减少其对欧洲人口影响的修订战略的需求。

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.