The Project

Food safety is a basic individual right, as specifically recognized in the United Nations Sustainable Developments Goals (SDG). However, foodborne diseases have long represented a considerable burden to public health and continues to challenge health systems worldwide. Besides the traditional food borne hazards, safety of the food chain is facing new and unprecedented challenges, for the pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, but also for emerging pathogens that have been underdiagnosed and underreported so far. The TECH4PATH project aims to tackle this issue by investigating strategies for decontamination of fruit and vegetable food products (FVPs) by a variety of traditional and emerging pathogens.

In this direction, the TECH4PATH project is principally aimed to study, optimize and create basic protocols for the application of 2 non-thermal technologies (cold plasma-CP and High Hydrostatic Pressure-HHP) for the decontamination of the emerging pathogens on FVPs.