Project: Combination Of LED And NIR Technologies For Extending And Rapir Digital Control Of Shelf Life In Fresh Beef And Horse Meat

Acronym	LENTERDCOS (Reference Number: MNET17/ENER-1158)
Duration	01/12/2017 - 30/11/2019
Project Topic	Finding preservation strategies that extend the shelf life of products as much as possible, without compromising safety and quality, is a critical factor for the strategy and operation food companies. This generates the emergence of a novel technological trend for searching preservation procedures that are softer compared to taditional thermal approaches, keeping their effectiveness over microbial mix. Moreover, Food safety and quality are the most critical factors to be maintained during the whole value chain, from primary production to the final consumption by consumers. An important bottleneck in this line is the lack of fast and reliable sensoring tools for the real-time determination of product status. In this context we propose the LENTERDCOS project that will pursue two main final results: i) on the one hand increasing the shelf life of packaged (MAP and skin) fresh beef and horse meat, as well as other processed products using these types of meat, through pulsed UV-C LED lighting; ii) on the other, a fast and reliable digital monitoring and control of the food shelf life based in NIR Spectroscopy
Network	MANUNET III
Call	Manunet Call 2017

Number	Name	Role	Country
1	Akım Metal Sanayii Ticaret Anonim Şirketi	Coordinator	Türkiye
2	Cárnicas Hicor, S.L.	Partner	Spain
3	YMB TEknolojik Ürünler Pazarlama Sanayii Ticaret A.Ş.	Partner	Türkiye