Excellent food

The project promoted nutritional health and combats food waste.

The project is finished.

The goal of the project is to reduce nutrition risks in the food services. The aim is also to find ne ways to support food service producers in monitoring and reducing food waste.

The project plans new practices to be piloted in environmental health care units. The pilots are evaluated, good practices are compiled and reported. Excellent food -project will be carried out in co-operation with environmental health care specialists, authorities, and catering operators.

The project will result in a reasoned proposal to address nutritional risks and food waste reduction, either as part of food control or advice to operators. The project also provides further recommendations for progress.

For further interest

  • Wasteless Food Services in Finland (WFSF)
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Project name:

Excellent food

Project duration: 1.12.2020–31.12.2022

Info

Lead partner: JAMK University of Applied Sciences
Partial partners: Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, University of Eastern Finland and South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences

Budget

Financier and main source of funding: Finnish Food Authority and Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry from Food Chain Promotion Fund
Total budget: EUR 315 101
Xamk part of the total budget: EUR 77 100

More information

Jenni Palosaari
Project manager
+358 50 911 1364
firstname.lastname@xamk.fi

Suvi-Tuulia Leinonen
Project manager
+358 40 669 0645
suvi-tuulia.leinonen@jamk.fi

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