DESIGN AND EXPERIMENTAL DEVELOPMENT TO CHARACTERIZE THE FINGERPRINT OF ALOE CULTIVATED IN THE CANARY ISLANDS WITH THE AIM OF CERTIFYING ITS AUTHENTICITY AND GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGIN TO PROTECT PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS FROM POTENTIAL FRAUD
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Acronym: ALOECAN
Reference: CPP2021-009056
Partners: University of La Laguna (ULL) and Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables, S.A (ITER).
Duration: 01/09/2022-31/08/2025
Budget: 474,694.00 €
Co-Financing: Public Private Partnership 2021. State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2021-2023. Ministry of Science and Innovation. Project CPP2021-009056 funded by MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033 and the European Union NextGenerationEU/ PRTR.
Project overview
The ALOECAN project is part of the research line on agri-food traceability developed by the ITER Environment Area and aims to evaluate the use of natural isotopes of strontium and specific organic compounds, as potential “fingerprints” of the aloe grown in the Canary Islands and its derived products.
Isotopic relationships of heavy elements of geological interest, such as the 87Sr/86Sr isotope relations, have gained interest in recent decades to certify the regional provenance of food. On the other hand, the study of the photochemical profile can provide additional information that helps to distinguish a product as grown under optimal conditions and at the same time provides new quantitative standards for product quality.
The objective of this project fits perfectly into the Challenge 2 defined in the State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2017-2020 defined as “Bioeconomy: sustainability of primary and forest production systems, food safety and quality, marine and maritime research and bio-products”, more specifically with priorities III (“The development of intelligent production systems, processes and technologies and food and agro-industrial control”) and IV (“Food quality and safety”). This last priority specifies the need for risk and fraud detection systems.
As a result of this project, a scientific verification protocol will be developed which can help to certify not only the origin of products but also the nature of their agricultural environment.
The ALOECAN project (CPP2021-009056), coordinated by the ITER Environment Area, will last for 36 months and is funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation and the State Research Agency (10.13039/501100011033) and by the European Union in the framework of the EU Recovery Plan Next Generation EU and the Spanish Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR).
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