Abstract
Community is the foundation of public health: the present paper reports the approach and strategy for intervention on the dairy production community developed by the Italian project ALERT (www.alert2015.it), which implements the transfer of technical innovation and technological know-how from public research. Starting from the local role of primary producers, North-South and South-South networking (www.noodlesonlus.org) is needed to share solutions for transnational problems like climatic change, contaminated agro-farming sites and food waste and losses in the era of food crisis. Based on risk analysis, science-society dialogue and global health, the main drivers of this experience of translational research are One Health, i.e. the web of inter-relationships among environment, farm animals and human health, and sustainable food safety (prevention actions on diet of young women, today, to protect next generation’s health) to increase population life expectancy in good health.
Highlights
Translational research helps to make findings from basic science useful for practical applications that enhance human health and well-being; investment in health has been proven to boost development [1].Protecting the food supply chain is an important component of health investment
Safe and nutritious food becomes all important since Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) are projected to become the most common causes of death by 2030 in the developing world [3]; there is the need to support the citizens’ trust in wholesome local food productions
The ALERT activities pivot on the bovine milk chain; parallel approaches and strategies might be developed for milk chains of goats, buffalo, sheep, and under-utilized species in the dairy production, such as reindeer, elk, llamas, alpacas, donkeys, yaks, camels and mithun
Summary
Translational research helps to make findings from basic science useful for practical applications that enhance human health and well-being; investment in health has been proven to boost development [1]. The European strategy for food safety [8] requires that the Official control, based on risk analysis “from farm to fork”, is increasingly integrated by innovative systems for self-monitoring at each segment of the food chain (from primary production to transport, transformation, and marketing) by food business operators. Basing on a multidisciplinary team (agronomists, veterinarians, biologists, chemists, engineers) the public-private Consortium of the project ALERT develops and transfers a automated technological platform based on (bio)detection tools (sensors and biosensors) and (bio)markers to the Italian dairy chain whose components are Pascolini (farm), Lattepiù (collection/transport), and Centrale del Latte di Roma/Parmalat (dairy industry). The mentioned food business operators of the dairy chain started the ALERT Consortium with a cluster of public institutes with top-level expertise in food chain protection (ISS, IZSLT) and technological transfer (CNR), and a cluster of enterprises (Amel, Biosensor, TDM) with established expertise in sensing systems. The Consortium management aspects are dealt with separately by another enterprise (LBC)
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