Identification of catch geographic area in ittyo_species with high commercial value through both microbiota investigation and “omics science”

# Record card
97
Thematic areas
Agrifood / Nutrition & health
Agrifood / Food quality & safety
Description

Our idea come from the improving of the traceability technique in agro-food fisheries industries through the application of omics technologies in microbiota studies.  These latter would be capable of exploiting the huge pool of biological molecules contained in fishery resources (e.g. nucleic acids, proteins, metabolites) and use them as a powerful tools for the identification and reconstruction of fishery history, from the sea to the table. Employing integrative approaches, the aims work is to respond above all to the ever increasing need to identify the geographical area origins of the "seafood" and specially in some high added value fishery products. Through the application of these new technologies, stakeholders may be offer new tools and techniques (production / processing regulations and labels) to transfer more certainty to consumers about the origin and quality of the product purchased.

Business fields
Agrifood
Industry
Type of innovation
Product innovation
Service/know how innovation
Description of innovative features / Competitive advantages

The technologies are proposed to provide each actor of the fish supply chain (from the fisherman to the retailer), which allows them to protect and enhance the high quality Mediterranean fish products. Differencing aforementioned products in definite manner by without history products, coming from illegal, unregulated and undeclared fishing.

The proposed technology would have repercussions through the entire agri-food chain system benefiting the final consumers too, who would be offered a renewed and safe product. Moreover it may  both defence and protect the fish industry network that is capable to curb the huge "mislabeling" pocket, an increasingly widespread and pervasive phenomenon.

Reference market
Incremental innovation
Impacts on existing markets
Development stage
Idea
TRL
1
2
Advantages
New product/process/service/technology
Patented technology
No
Market positioning
Italian
European
International
Partner required
Enteprise
Public research center/university
Private research center
Seed capital
Cooperation in national /european / international project

Information
For more information and/or to be put in contact with the Research Team, please contact the Project Manager:

Barbara Angelini - Project Manager
CNR - Unità Valorizzazione della Ricerca
Phone number 06.49932415
E-mail barbara.angelini@cnr.it