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Foods: Invitation to submit

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Following the success of two previous Special Issues in Rice with 16 published articles that we recommend your reading in:

Editorial with summaries of several papers:

Quality Assay, Processing and Bio-Function of Rice Products

Rice: From Staple Food to Innovative, Safe, Authentic and Healthy Foods

Foods is releasing the new Special Issue "Sustainability, Safety, Health Claims and...

New advances from PRIMA projects

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The seminar "New advances from PRIMA projects for improving Mediterranean Agro-Food value chains" is only a few weeks away and we are thrilled to show several renowned and high-level keynote speakers and panelists from academia and private sector.

An excellent panel discussion will speak about the most relevant topics with keynote experts:

  • Authenticity & traceability digital tools-Marco...

TRACE-RICE featured at DARE2CHANGE

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The TRACE-RICE project was presented last 21st of March at "Dare2Change", Innovation- Driven Agrifood Business (https://dare2change.pt/) in the Congress Centre of Super Bock Arena Porto, Portugal. The event was focused on the challenges of the agri-food sector from technological innovation to new business models and brought together three hundred of stakeholders to increase the synergies between...

PRIMA projects and the Mediterranean Agro-Food value chains

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The seminar "New advances from PRIMA projects for improving Mediterranean Agro-Food value chains" is organized by INIAV in the scope of the TRACE-RICE project in collaboration with APH (Portuguese Association of Horticulture). The event will take place on March 18-19 at INIAV – Oeiras – Portugal


The program includes five thematic sessions:

i)  Authenticity & traceability digital...

TRACE-RICE presented in the 7th Cairo international exhibition of innovation

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TRACE-RICE was presented in the 7th Cairo international exhibition of innovation by University of Alexandria team. This event took place from the 13th to the 15th February of 2023 in Cairo. The Cairo International exhibition brought together scientists, inventors, startups, and funding organizations from around the world to showcase and share their experiences, innovations, ideas, as well as the...

TRACE-RICE is hiring a Senior Technician

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It is made public that, by Order of the Rector of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Professor João Sáàgua, issued on 20th January 2023, a call is open to hire a Senior Technician, under a contract for an uncertain term in accordance with the “Regulation on the careers, recruitment and employment contracts of non-teaching and non-research staff under the employment contract regime of Universidade Nova...

Internship at the INIAV within the TRACE-RICE activities

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Internship at the INIAV laboratories within the TRACE-RICE activities and in the scope of "Summer with Science 2022" FCT programme supported by GREEN-IT research unit

Margarida Bação, who has a degree in Biochemistry from the University of Lisbon, carried out an training program in rice quality evaluation parameters. This training was also framed on the development of innovative...

New article on insect infestation management

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Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a staple food for about half of the world’s population. Therefore, it is important to search for solutions that minimise losses and production costs for producers and ensure food quality and safety for consumers. Improved methods for the detection and monitoring of hidden infestations are useful for adopting infestation control measures. Chemical methods are used to...

New article on design thinking for food

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Portugal is the greatest European rice consumer. Thus, incorporating whole rice and rice bran in innovative rice products is challenging. An experimental method based on the creativity association theory was applied. A group of nine students performed simple brainstorming to generate recipe ideas. Following the Design Thinking approach, a group of nine chefs received a stimulus to generate words...