The SOPHY project aims to develop a web-based software tool for prediction of product safety, quality and shelf life of ready-to-eat products. Fresh cut salads and deli salads were chosen as model food system. Food producers will be able to optimise their raw material selection, product formulation and processing steps virtually.
As many of you are aware I am not a great fan of predictive modelling but we will have to wait and see if this tool when fully developed will be different. I think that there are just too many parameters that change within a complex food product due to homogeneity of ingredients or constituents, bacterialhomogeneity and changes to the product through shelf life caused by chemical and microbiological actions.
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