Coordinated by the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), SAFFI bring together 14 partners from seven countries across Europe and 6 partners from two Chinese provinces gathering the required expertise in food safety control, infant food production, analytical and data sciences to achieve the project goal. This multi-actor and Sino-European consortium led by INRAE, the Europe’s top agricultural research institute and the world’s number two centre for the agricultural sciences, involves as full partners five international infant food companies (Friesland Campina, HiPP, YIOTIS, Beingmate, YFFC), two food safety authority institutions (ZAIQ and ANSES who published in 2016 the first total diet study worldwide dedicated to infant), three dynamic European technological SMEs (CremeGlobal, Computomics and BDS who are specialists in data science for industry decision making, omics data analysis and bio-based technologies, respectively), specialists in infant health and nutrition (EPA-UNEPSA, an international association of paediatrics) and leading European and Chinese academia (WU, UNITO, IRTA, IVV; ZJU, ZAAS, JAAS).

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 861917