Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods : MoniQA

Abstract

On behalf of MoniQA (Monitoring and Quality Assurance in the total food supply chain) I am delighted to invite you to enjoy the first issue of Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods, the official journal of ICC – International Association for Cereal Science and Technology, an undertaking which is indeed an international collaboration between the global membership of ICC and the MoniQA consortium, an EU-funded Network of Excellence (NoE) initially comprising over 155 scientists from 20 countries, which has grown to over 400 experts from more than 100 institutions from over 35 countries from five continents in\ the first 18 months of its lifetime. The two networks – ICC and MoniQA – cover a wide range of competences in the area of food quality and safety analysis across a wide spectrum of foods and feedstuffs. The relatively young MoniQA network of experts – MoniQA started in 2007 – offers complementary expertise to ICC’s tradition and its highly valued ICC Standard Methods for the cereal and grain industries and thus extends the association’s activities to general food safety and quality issues. This comprehensive coverage of food safety and quality analysis as well as risk management guarantees the high quality of this newly established journal.