MYcotoxin MAnagement platform To face Climate change impact on food safety and human Health
The occurrence of mycotoxins is increasing as a consequence of the climatic change.
MyMatch is a EU-financed project focussing on the effects of climatic change on the contamination of food and feed chain with mycotoxins. The climate change has already changed the levels of mycotoxins in the feed and food chain. The occurrence of extreme weather such as drought, heavy rainfalls and flooding is also expected to have an impact on the levels of mycotoxins in crop plants.
There are models available to predict the occurrence of mycotoxins in some crop plants, but not all main crops. Furthermore, there is also a need to improve existing models. In addition, the diet is continuously changing and there is development of new food products that may have different level of mycotoxins leading to a change in dietary intake of mycotoxins.
The main aim of MyMatch is to develop a predictive tool relying on accurate climate change scenarios to anticipate the increase in mycotoxin occurrence in European food systems. The tool will target the need of farmers, food industries and policymakers and provide mycotoxin occurrence prediction scenarios, updated mitigation approaches and risk assessment related to food safety threats caused by climate change-induced mycotoxin exposure.
MyMatch is funded by the EU and is co-ordinated by Prof. Paola Battilani, Universita Catolica de Sacre Cuore, Italy, and has partners from Italy, Greece, Hungary, Serbia, Portugal, UK, France and Spain in addition to NVI.
Participants at NVI: Gunnar Sundstøl Eriksen, Magdalena M. Owczarek-Koscielniak, Aksel Bernhoft, Christopher O. Miles
Project period: 2024-2028
