Newsletter

This section brings you all the latest News from ProSafeBeef.

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ProSafeBeef is an Integrated Project funded within the EU Sixth Framework Programme. This newsletter aims to update project partners and stakeholders on progress and key outputs from the ProSafeBeef project, together with news and events related to the European beef industry

ProSafeBeef Newsletter 9

Inside this issue:

• New communication tools to disseminate ProSafeBeef findings
• TechKnowledge Stakeholder Digest
• The Minute Beef
• ProSafeBeef Events Catalogue
• ProSafeBeef dissemination highlights
• Upcoming events: dates for the diary

ProSafeBeef Newsletter 8

Inside this issue:

• Intervention strategies for microbial control to ensure safe beef
• Nutritional and quality improvements to meat
• Ensuring microbiological and nutritional safety for consumers
• Meat from steers is more tender than bulls
• Training session on marinating processes
• European consumers’ acceptance of beef technologies

ProSafeBeef Newsletter 7

Inside this issue:

• EU Commissioner opens Teagasc Nutraceutical Research Facility in Dublin
  ProSafeBeef website overhaul
• Highlights from the 2010 ProSafeBeef Conference
• Farming Connect Industry Event
• Identification of different pathogens in different countries (Geraldine Duffy)
• ProSafeBeef Website Relaunch
• ProSafeBeef student wins prestigious Walsh Fellowship award

Inside this issue:

• System for predicting Beef quality
• Functional genomics and new markers for beef production ProSafeBeef technology transfer training sessions:
  Tenderness development factors and improving added-value Good practice in slaughterhouses
• Training exchangeprogramme
• SME interviews
• Upcoming events

ProSafeBeef Newsletter Issue 5

Inside this issue:

• Summary of US beef innovation study tour by
  Declan Troy from the ProSafeBeef management team
• SME interviews
• Upcoming events

• New research on consumer attitudes towards beef
• An interview with Professor Wim Verbeke
• Improving the nutritional quality of beef
• A report from the ProSafeBeef symposium:
  Advancing beef safety and quality through
  research and innovation
• Training exchange programme
• Upcoming events

• ProSafeBeef International Beef Safety Conference at Teagasc Ashtown Food Research Centre in Dublin, Ireland on the 25th and 26th of March 2009.
• An interview with Dr Geraldine Duffy, Head of Food Safety Department at Teagasc Ashtown Co-coordinator and Pillar 1 Leader, ProSafebeef.
• A demonstration on detection of foreign bodies/unwanted carcass components
• The forthcoming ProSafeBeef ICoMST workshop
• Upcoming events
• High hydrostatic pressure

• Low added value muscle profiling
• Discover a new technology for beef meat OSMOFOOD®
• Pi-Vac elastopack system and in line guide
  microwave spectrometry 3
• High hydrostatic pressure

• ProSafeBeef overview
• The project coordinator: an interview with Declan Troy
• Nutrition: what's the beef?
• Beef up your business: the ProSafeBeef network