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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

	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.
	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.

Context and overall objectives of the project

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Trace-Rice presented at Agroglobal

Published on 18/09/2021

The Trace-Rice project was presented last 7th September in 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...

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TRACE-RICE resume

OBJECTIVES

TRACE-RICE is focused on providing the Mediterranean rice industry with:

	Highly-efficient and affordable analytical and digital technologies that will facilitate fast traceability and authenticity control of rice varieties;
	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

	AUTHENTICITY TOOLS DNA-based, predictive models using machine learning strategies
	DECREASE CHEMICALS Biobased insect repellents, active packaging technologies
	INNOVATIVE FOOD AND BEVERAGES Integrate rice by-products in bakery ingredients
	BLOCKCHAIN AND RFID TECHNOLOGIES RFID tags for wireless and real time supply chain integration