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«If you give me rice, I'll eat today;
If you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.»
Mahatma Gandhi
Tracing rice and valorizing side streams along Mediterranean blockchain
Acronym: TRACE-RICE | PRIMA
TRACE-RICE with Grant nº 1934, (call 2019, section 1 Agrofood) is part of the PRIMA Programme supported under Horizon 2020, the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation
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TRACE-RICE targets the adoption of cost-efficient and environmentally safe tools for traceability, authenticity, contaminant mitigation and conversion of by-products to innovative rice base food produced in the Mediterranean. |
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Brings together public and private stakeholders across the Mediterranean for delivering innovative solutions for fraud and safety challenges in rice sector with an integrated full chain approach (‘farm to fork’) in 48 months. |
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TRACE-RICE promotional video
Published on 26/07/2022
Learn more about the activities of our project. Click on the image and watch the video.
IATA-CSIC presented a poster at CyTA-CESIA Congress
Published on 01/07/2022
Food scientists and technologists must advance and innovate in the development of processes and products that guarantee the health of the consumer and the competitiveness of the ag...
Trace-Rice joined the vibrant cereal science community
Published on 13/06/2022
The 19th European Young Cereal Scientists and Technologists Workshop, was hosted by the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA-CSIC), which is one of the mo...
TRACE-RICE at "Ciência’2022"
Published on 19/05/2022
The TRACE-RICE project was presented last 16th to 17th of May at Ciência’2022 event in Lisbon. The Ciência’2022 event is an annual meeting of science, technology and innovatio...
Rice sensory analysis
Published on 08/04/2022
The INIAV sensory expert panel initiated their work within TRACE-RICE on February 9th, 16th and March 5th, 6th. The event included the screening of nine selected ass...
Trace-Rice on stage of the trends in grain-based foods
Published on 01/04/2022
The TRACE-RICE project was presented last 23rd to the 25th of March at Transcolab Summit in the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (Portugal). The congress was focused on "Tren...
Are you a Young Cereal Scientist? Submit your abstract.
Published on 31/03/2022
Cereals&Europe, in collaboration with the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology, is calling for abstract submissions for oral and poster presentations at the 19th Euro...
Study the technological properties of Egyptian Rice
Published on 24/03/2022
Egyptian Trace-Rice team attended a training program offered by the Rice Technology Training and Research Center (Study the technological properties of Egyptian Rice). They also pr...
Alexandria University organized training on "color vision system"
Published on 24/03/2022
As soon as Alexandria University received the color vision system, a training program, offered by the dealer, has been implemented for the graduate students and staff member from t...
Alexandria University disseminated Trace-Rice
Published on 24/03/2022
As reported by our partner Professor Abdelwahab, Executive Director of Renewable Energy Center (Agricultural Engineering Department of the Faculty of Agriculture), Alexandria Unive...
Innovative natural ingredients from rice by-products
Published on 03/03/2022
The research on "supercritical CO2 extraction as a tool to isolate phytochemicals from Rice (Oryza sativa L.) by-products" is part of TRACE-RICE | PRIMA project. The main goals is ...
Workshop "Innovación aplicada al sector agroalimentario"
Published on 28/02/2022
Next March 15th IATA team will give a presentation related to the activity of TRACE-RICE project. This is a workshop organized by the MEDITOMATO project (also financed by PRIMA) th...
TRACE-RICE mobilize trans-national network
Published on 15/02/2022
TRACE-RICE mobilize trans-national network of 7 laboratories for validating and harmonizing protocols concerning rice quality and authenticity.
New standards based on Rapid Visco ...
Position for one research grant for Master
Published on 15/02/2022
The National Institute of Agrarian and Veterinary Research, I.P. (INIAV, I.P.) opens a position for one research grant for Master in the scope of the project TRACE-RICE- Tracing ri...
PRIMA Infoday 2022
Published on 15/01/2022
Connect to know all the details of the new call for proposals
#PRIMAInfoday @PRIMAProgram
We wish you a "rice" new year
Published on 13/01/2022
To all our partners, stakeholders and followers, we wish a very "rice" new year
TRACE-RICE visited Ernesto Morgado
Published on 17/12/2021
Within the scope of WP4 TraceRice project, on 14th December 2021, a technical visit was carried out to Ernesto Morgado's facilities in Alqueidão – Figueira da Foz. The general WP4 ...
TRACE-RICE at Predoctoral Student Conference
Published on 09/12/2021
TRACE RICE project was present atthe VIII IATA-CSIC Predoctoral Student Conference. Our colleague, Eva Grau, a predoctoral student under the TRACE-RICE project, has exposed he...
New article for TRACE-RICE
Published on 07/12/2021
"Use of Artificial Neural Network Model for Rice Quality Prediction Based on Grain Physical Parameters" is the new article published under the TRACE-RICE project. The main goa...
TRACE-RICE POSTERS AT "DARE2CHANGE"
Published on 24/11/2021
The TRACE-RICE team was present at "Dare2Change", Innovation- Driven Agrifood Business with the exibition of four posters:
"Trace-rice, Tracing rice and valorizing side strea...
Unraveling seasonings impact on cooked rice quality
Published on 24/11/2021
One more TRACE-RICE poster presented, now at the Spanish Cereal Chemist Association Workshop, for disseminating the results.
UNRAVELING SEASONINGS IMPACT ON COOKED RICE QUALITY: T...
Day of the Mediterranean
Published on 18/11/2021
PRIMA celebrates the Day of the Mediterranean in November in collaboration with the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM). Accordingly, PRIM...
TRACE-RICE ready for "Dare2Change"
Published on 18/11/2021
TRACE-RICE team will be present at "Dare2Change, Innovation- Driven Agrifood Business" (november 18-19) and will present the following posters:
‘Trace-rice, Tracing rice and valor...
International Whole Grain Day
Published on 29/10/2021
16th November marks the International Whole Grain Day. A live webinar with experts and key opinion leaders in the field from around the world will be held on the sa...
Rice: From Staple Food to Innovative, Safe, Authentic and Healthy Foods
Published on 27/10/2021
"One Last month!!! Welcome to submit to our "Foods" Special Issue - "Rice: From Staple Food to Innovative, Safe, Authentic and Healthy Foods". There are already 4 papers published,...
TRACE-RICE exposed at Tuttofood
Published on 25/10/2021
The TRACE-RICE project is exposed at the Milan Tuttofood fair, highlighting its objectives and the expected impacts. Under the mission of "tracing rice and valorizing side streams ...
Tuttorice, Tuttofood
Published on 22/10/2021
TRACE-RICE project is on board TUTTOFOOD, the B2B exhibition for the entire agri-food ecosystem. Global and innovative, it is the reference point in the world for producers and dis...
TRACE-RICE close to the researchers
Published on 21/10/2021
TRACE-RICE will be presented under the theme 'Food, bioeconomy, agriculture and environment' at the Seminar “Research in Portuguese State Laboratories and Building a Safe...
A stage for rice at science festival
Published on 18/10/2021
TRACE-RICE explained the "world of rice" during FIC.A - International Science Festival. This event took place from the 12th to the 17th October 2021, at the Marquês de Pombal Palac...
WP2 meeting to move forward
Published on 15/10/2021
The WP2 team, lead by Jorge Oliveira from Ernesto Morgado, was meet in the 14 of October and the main objective was to joint 15 persons from four partners (EM, INIAV, iBET, CSIC-IA...
TRACE-RICE at "Festival Internacional de Ciência"
Published on 15/10/2021
The Trace-Rice project will be present at the INIAV stand in the "Festival Internacional de Ciência" a science and technology event organized by Oeiras municipality. This Festival ...
TRACE-RICE team published in "Granos & Postcosecha Latinoamerica"
Published on 30/09/2021
The TRACE-RICE team published an article, in the "Granos & Postcosecha Latinoamerica" magazine, entitled "Rice: Innovation in a traditional cereal". It is well known that rice ...
TRACE-RICE presented at European Night of Researchers
Published on 27/09/2021
The TRACE-RICE project was presented, with great visibility, at the INIAV stand, during the European Night of Researchers, this year dedicated to the European Ecological Pact. This...
TRACE-RICE presented at Agroglobal
Published on 18/09/2021
The TRACE-RICE project was presented last 7th September at Agroglobal fair (www.agroglobal.pt). It was an opportunity to know more about the project, the goals and to share differe...
First General Assembly meeting
Published on 08/12/2020
The TRACE-RICE project officially launched on 1st September of 2020 and the first General Assembly took place on 10th of December. Due to the special COVID-19 situation, we me...
TRACE-RICE team present at 1st International Electronic Conference on Food Scien...
Published on 08/12/2020
TRACE-RICE team present at 1st International Electronic Conference on Food Science and Functional Foods with the presentation ‘Evaluation of starch hydrolysis for glycemic index pr...
Deadline for manuscript submissions in Foods Special Issues was postponed
Published on 15/07/2020
For centuries Rice has been a staple food worldwide and nowadays is the focus of many innovation from seeds to foods.
Because of that we strongly believe that Rice deserves the op...
Trace-Rice team publication was identified to be in the top 1% worldwide in cita...
Published on 27/10/2020
In an independent assessment of publication impact undertaken by University College Cork in September 2020, one of our teams publications was identified to be in the top 1% worldwi...
A case study on rice published by FAO "Understanding international harmonization...
Published on 28/08/2020
This publication sets out to explore the issue of harmonization of national pesticides Maximum Residues Limits (MRLs) with Codex pesticide MRLs from different angles, by taking ric...
Special issues in Foods related with Rice
Published on 15/07/2020
For centuries Rice has been a staple food worldwide and nowadays is the focus of many innovation from seeds to foods.
Because of that we strongly believe that Rice deserves the op...
TRACE-RICE booklet have been publicated
Published on 26/06/2020
Learn more about the project ... See the booklet.
The presentation and summary of the project is also already published in the PRIMA catalog (pages 72-73) which can be consul...
PRIMA foundation will announce the result of calls 2020
Published on 26/06/2020
News from PRIMA website
PRIMA foundation will announce the result of calls 2020 stage 1 on the 20 July 2020 for section 1, 27 July 2020 for Section 2.
PRIMA 2019 AGRO-FOOD Virtual Synergy
Published on 11/06/2020
The PRIMA Project Coordinators and international partners aim at increase the synergies in the Agro-food sector. The organization of two PRIMA AGRO-FOOD webinars in 2020 ha...
PRIMA projects are redirecting their activities in response to the Covid-19 cris...
Published on 11/06/2020
News from PRIMA website
Barcelona, 10 June 2020. Covid-19 is causing an unprecedented situation at a global level, particularly in the Euro-Mediterranean region. In a...
TRACE-RICE resume
OBJECTIVES
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Highly-efficient and affordable analytical and digital technologies that will facilitate fast traceability and authenticity control of rice varieties; |
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New nutritional and healthy tasty rice-based foods and high added-value products based on an interdisciplinary integrated chain-wide and circular economy approach. |
DELIVER SOLUTIONS
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AUTHENTICITY TOOLS |
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DECREASE CHEMICALS Biobased insect repellents, active packaging technologies |
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INNOVATIVE FOOD AND BEVERAGES Integrate rice by-products in bakery ingredients |
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BLOCKCHAIN AND RFID TECHNOLOGIES RFID tags for wireless and real time supply chain integration |
