DEMOTOX
"A new device to detect quickly and friendly Ochratoxin A and other myco-toxins in feed, food and beverage."
| Coordinatore | AUTOMATION SRL
Organization address
address: Via Luigi Cagnola 35/A contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Italy [IT] |
| Totale costo | 2˙005˙718 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙295˙952 € |
| Programma | FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs |
| Code Call | FP7-SME-2013 |
| Funding Scheme | CP |
| Anno di inizio | 2013 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2013-07-01 - 2015-06-30 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
AUTOMATION SRL
Organization address
address: Via Luigi Cagnola 35/A contact info |
IT (ABBIATEGRASSO) | coordinator | 467˙780.00 |
| 2 |
LUMISENSE LDA
Organization address
address: Rua dos Pinheiros - Parque de Negocios U.I.C s/n contact info |
PT (Cernache do Bonjardim) | participant | 208˙700.00 |
| 3 |
EWOS INNOVATION AS
Organization address
city: DIRDAL contact info |
NO (DIRDAL) | participant | 183˙684.00 |
| 4 |
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA
Organization address
address: Piazzale Aldo Moro 5 contact info |
IT (ROMA) | participant | 168˙800.00 |
| 5 |
CREASYS SRL
Organization address
address: PIAZZA DEI SANTI APOSTOLI 55 contact info |
IT (ROMA) | participant | 148˙600.00 |
| 6 |
INESC MICROSISTEMAS E NANOTECNOLGIAS-INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS DE COMPUTADORES PARA OS MICROSISTEMAS E AS NANOTECNOLOGIAS
Organization address
address: Rua Alves Redol 9 contact info |
PT (LISBOA) | participant | 118˙388.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'Objective of this proposal, called DEMOTOX, is to prove the viability of results obtained as outcome of the OTASENS Project, which was funded within the program “Research for SMEs; FP7–SME–2008–1, Grant Agreement No. 232245. The results obtained in the OTASENS Project offer a potential economic advantage to the partners, because they give them possibility to develop a simple, innovative device, portable, sensitive, to detect ochratoxin A (OTA) and other mycotoxins. Therefore, the SMEs leading DEMOTOX are committed to taking the laboratory prototypes developed in OTASENS to a commercial product, a simple system able to signal presence of myco-toxins in food, feed, beverage, over the law limits. Preliminary information show that the system developed in OTASENS has great market potential; a short market analysis is anticipated both from the point of view of the instrumentation of analysis required and of the sectors interested in the field of food and feed safety. A well- developed market strategy, based on business case and business plan, will be carried out during this Project in order to launch the innovative product into the international market. Manufacturing of this innovative device will allow the participating SMEs of the DEMOTOX Consortium to become more competitive; moreover, taking into account that the RTD Performers in OTASENS will be partners in this Project, success of the Demonstration activity in the DEMOTOX Proposal will enhance links between SMEs and R&D group through a strong campaign of training and dissemination. Two detection strategies, one based on chromatographic measurements and the other based on immunoassays will be produced to allow screening of a large number of samples in a short time and indicate which of them are contaminated. At least 20 devices will be produced for the demonstration tests and a “round-robin” procedure will be used to compare results from different users, selected among the sectors of potential market.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
Degradation of food and feed caused by myco-toxins is a fairly widespread world wide-problem. A consortium of companies is advancing prototype mycotoxin testing devices for potential commercial application.
Descrizione progetto (Article)
A wide variety of foods, beverages and feed are often contaminated with mycotoxins, which present a high risk to human and animal health. These mycotoxins are toxic substances produced by particular fungi that also can cause high crop losses.
Generally, the SMEs producing beverage and feed outsource mycotoxin detection expensive analysis to laboratories or companies with the proper expertise and equipment.
The EU-funded http://www.demotox.eu (DEMOTOX) project is further developing two mycotoxin sensor prototypes from other EU-funded research projects. This project will test the prototypes in preparation for the commercial market.
EU research centres that developed the initial prototypes have transferred the intellectual properties to the companies involved. Two of these companies have redesigned every aspect of the prototype devices.
DEMOTOX has established the protocols and benchmarks needed for industrial testing. The consortium also identified potential end users of the device, and recruited these companies to help validate the new prototypes.
Ten copies of each of these two prototypes have been manufactured. One works on a chemical identification system, while the other uses a bio-assay.
Beyond the practical aspects of the project, DEMOTOX is busy with a market analysis and an evaluation of potential competitors. Ultimately, this consortium hopes to bring a cheap and innovative mycotoxin sensor device to market in the EU.