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Project

Improving the quality of pork products for the consumer: development of innovative, integrated and sustainable food production chains of high quality pork products matching consumer demands

This Integrated Project, funded by the EU Sixth Framework Programme, acronym Q-PorkChains, runs for 5 years, starting 1 january 2007. It aims at developing and testing advanced and multi-disciplinary approaches for identification, characterisation, prediction, and control of pork and pork products throughout diverse production chains. UGent invovlement relates to citizen and consumer issues related to pork production and pork products.

Date:1 Jan 2007 →  31 Dec 2011
Keywords:pork, quality, consumers, citizen, pig production
Disciplines:Applied economics, Marketing, Agriculture, land and farm management, Agricultural animal production, Veterinary medicine