{"id":39584,"date":"2020-03-10T13:11:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T11:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/?p=39584"},"modified":"2020-04-01T17:38:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T15:38:58","slug":"terrafood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/en\/a-la-une\/terrafood.html","title":{"rendered":"Euronews: IEMN - Sniffer sensors combat food waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='layer_slider_1'  class='avia-layerslider main_color avia-shadow  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_image  avia-builder-el-first  container_wrap sidebar_right'  style='height: 261px;'  ><div id=\"layerslider_58_dzb14paxic8w\" data-ls-slug=\"homepageslider\" class=\"ls-wp-container fitvidsignore ls-selectable\" style=\"width:1140px;height:260px;margin:0 auto;margin-bottom: 0px;\"><div class=\"ls-slide\" data-ls=\"duration:6000;transition2d:5;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2600\" height=\"270\" 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https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/terafood_ban2-1030x285.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/terafood_ban2-768x212.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/terafood_ban2-705x195.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-11fer9m-d41aec4aa413fd0064f106fae0c85c81\">\n#top .hr.av-11fer9m-d41aec4aa413fd0064f106fae0c85c81{\nmargin-top:5px;\nmargin-bottom:5px;\n}\n.hr.av-11fer9m-d41aec4aa413fd0064f106fae0c85c81 .hr-inner{\nwidth:100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-11fer9m-d41aec4aa413fd0064f106fae0c85c81 hr-custom  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_image  el_before_av_textblock  hr-left hr-icon-no'><span class='hr-inner inner-border-av-border-thin'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-k7lsqglj-fcbf24af47038f70c6f964248c898185'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3>The TERAFOOD project, supported by the European Cohesion Policy, is developing a sensor to indicate whether or not a foodstuff is edible, without having to open the packaging.<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-k7lsqxlo-55dde1ad5946d368ddaa1a20378c7a92\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-k7lsqxlo-55dde1ad5946d368ddaa1a20378c7a92 .avia_textblock{\ncolor:#2d548e;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-k7lsqxlo-55dde1ad5946d368ddaa1a20378c7a92'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock av_inherit_color'  itemprop=\"text\" ><blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/logos_terafood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-39598\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/logos_terafood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a>In the European Union, almost <strong>90 billion kilos<\/strong> of food is thrown away every year - mostly because consumers don't know if they can still eat the food after its use-by date.<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to combat this phenomenon, Belgian and French researchers working on the <a href=\"https:\/\/terafood.iemn.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TERAFOOD<\/a> are working on a microchip sensor that could indicate whether the food is good or out of date, without having to open the packaging.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-k7lss116-59cd7897d8a2bfbb30b7238da3748db3'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>\"\u00a0<em>We use microbiological methods to examine microbial growth in food products, chemical methods to determine the concentrations of volatile compounds and sensory evaluation to obtain information from the panel by smell.<\/em>\" explains Lotta Kuuliala, a microbiology researcher at Ghent University.<\/p>\n<p>The technology used to develop this sensor is highly innovative. <strong>detect volatile components produced by food<\/strong>. \"\u00a0<em>It's a multidisciplinary project. We need specialists in agri-food and food waste - and on the other hand, we need scientists who can miniaturise and manufacture the microchips that make the technology possible.<\/em>\" says Frank Devlieghere, a microbiologist at Ghent University.<\/p>\n<p>To miniaturise sensors, researchers in Lille are using silicon, a common and cheap material. For the time being, these miniature chips can only be read by expensive and complex machines. But the scientists don't want to stop there, as Marc Faucher, head of the nano &amp; micro-systems group at CNRS, explains: \"\u00a0<em>At the end of the technological development of this micro-system, the plan is for it to contain its own detection method and to be remotely interrogatable, so that it can be used in the field without the need for major laboratory resources.<\/em>. \"<\/p>\n<p>It will still take time to develop a sensor capable of \"smelling\" all types of food. But the project coordinator, Mathias Vanwolleghem, believes that <strong>this innovative technology, based on <a href=\"https:\/\/terafood.iemn.fr\/newsflash-5\/\">terahertz waves<\/a>is already working<\/strong> : \"\u00a0<em>We are about to carry out the first tests to introduce this sensor into a cell that simulates what would be a real food packaging,<\/em> he explains. <em>By summer 2020, we expect to have a first demonstration of the viability of this new technology.<\/em>\u00a0\"<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<div  class='avia-video av-k7m2skfh-e2ab4c6ba732d3f9e62e8e2ac1b7e14a avia-video-16-9 av-no-preview-image avia-video-load-always avia-video-html5'  itemprop=\"video\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"  data-original_url='https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Projet_TERAFOOD.mp4'><video class='avia_video'    preload=\"auto\"  controls id='player_39584_59470093_819452274'><source src='https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Projet_TERAFOOD.mp4' type='video\/mp4' \/><\/video><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-k7lss116-59cd7897d8a2bfbb30b7238da3748db3'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Researchers believe that the first machines designed for the agri-food industry could be <strong>on the market within 5 years<\/strong>But it will take even longer to develop a mobile application, this time for the general public.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>The 4-year TERAFOOD project brings together partners in four towns in Belgium and northern France. Total investment : <strong>2 million euros<\/strong>half of which was provided by the European Cohesion Policy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/logo_euronews.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-39590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/logo_euronews.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"44\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fr.euronews.com\/2020\/03\/02\/terafood-la-technologie-pour-lutter-contre-le-gaspillage-alimentaire\">https:\/\/fr.euronews.com\/2020\/03\/02\/terafood-la-technologie-pour-lutter-contre-le-gaspillage-alimentaire<\/a><br \/>\nBy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/falena\"><strong>Selene Verri<\/strong><\/a> \u00a0&amp;\u00a0<strong>Aurora Velez<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-11fer9m-d41aec4aa413fd0064f106fae0c85c81\">\n#top .hr.av-11fer9m-d41aec4aa413fd0064f106fae0c85c81{\nmargin-top:5px;\nmargin-bottom:5px;\n}\n.hr.av-11fer9m-d41aec4aa413fd0064f106fae0c85c81 .hr-inner{\nwidth:100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-11fer9m-d41aec4aa413fd0064f106fae0c85c81 hr-custom  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock  hr-left hr-icon-no'><span class='hr-inner inner-border-av-border-thin'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-k7lys78z-bc4de364ed1e7dc55a915a1c59670faa'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>Project partners<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnrs.fr\/fr\/page-daccueil\">CNRS<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/en\/\">IEMN<\/a>) (Lead Partner)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flandersfood.com\/\">Flanders'Food<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vmicro.fr\/\">VMicro SAS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.univ-littoral.fr\/\">University of Littoral C\u00f4te d'Opale<\/a> (ULCO)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ugent.be\/\">Universiteit Gent<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/logos_part_terafood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-39601 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/logos_part_terafood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,299,297],"tags":[291,294,42,296,295,300,262,292,293,256],"class_list":["post-39584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news-2","category-newsletter","tag-capteur","tag-gaspillage","tag-iemn","tag-interreg","tag-micro-puces","tag-nl1","tag-technologie","tag-technology","tag-terafood","tag-terahertz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iemn.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}