Previous research projects
Epizootic diseases
- Biosecurity in organic turkey farming
- Blue tongue risk profile
- BSE risk associated with the import of cattle and meat and bone meal into Finland
- Hazards of Animal Diseases from Raw Former Foodstuffs of Animal Origin from the Retail Trade
- Hazards of importing animal by-products
- Implications of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak for cattle and pig production in Finland and the significance of emergency vaccination in controlling the spread of the disease
- The incidence of risk factors for exotic viral diseases in Finnish poultry production
- Is the control program for classical scrapie in Finland (2006-2012) sufficient to show negligible risk according to OIE´s definition?
- Managing animal disease risks under current structural changes in livestock farming
- Perspectives on poultry meat production in Finland: competitiveness, consuption and trade
- Possible routes of entry into the country for African swine fever - Risk profile
- Qualitative risk assessment – spread of classical swine fever to and within Finland
- Rapid risk assessment tool for animal disease risk assessment, method development project
- Representativeness of surveillance/control programs of AD, TGE and PRRS of sows during the years 2008-2009
- Risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis of salmonella in feed and animal production
- Risk assessment of importing bovine virus diarrhea (BVD) into Finland through bovine semen originating from North America
- Risk profile of the spread of VHS fish disease to inland waterways
- Spread of foot-and-mouth disease in Finland
- Swine fever – a quantitative risk assessment: animal health-related and economic consequences associated with an outbreak of classic swine fever in Finland
Microbiological food safety
- Campylobacter in the food chain and in the environment
- Biological risks of raw milk produced in Finland
- CampEc-NET - WP4
- Contamination sources of EHEC bacteria
- Detection and elimination of viruses from process environment
- Economic effects of salmonella control of broilers in Finland
- Enhancing food safety and productivity in fish production
- Food hygiene risks in meat and fish processing establishments
- Formation of food safety in supply-consumption chain - Risks in fish chain
- Health risks of food-borne bacterial infections and tracing the Finnish cases
- Integrated Food safeety and Traceability (IFSAT)
- Risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis of salmonella in feed and animal production
- Risk assessment of food safety risks in organic pork production - Yersinia and Listeria monocytogenes
- Risk assessment and traceability in food industry safety (TURVA-project)
- Risk profile of Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in Finnish foodstuffs
- Salmonella in beef production chain - a quantitative risk assessment
- Scientific network within sustainable fishing - dokumentation, labelling and traceability (TraceFood)
Chemical food safety
- Assessment of the intake of acrylamide
- Baltic herring as nutrition; risk-benefit analysis
- Caffeine - Nordic Risk Assessment
- Dietary exposure of Finnish children to heavy metals – a cumulative risk assessment
- Exposure of children and adults to nitrites and nitrates
- Fusarium toxins - Adult intake from cereals and cereal-based products in Finland
- The levels of dioxins, furans, PCB, PBDE and PFOS compounds in Baltic fish, fish in Finnish lakes and farmed fish
- Liver vitamin A and children
- Risk assessment of vitamin A in liver
- Safe Fertilizer Products from Biogas Plants (BIOSAFE)
- Comparative risk assessment of cadmium - the significance of moose meat and offal for the consumer’s cadmium intake
- Occurrence of organic undesirable compounds in fish feed and feed material of marine origin
- Organic tin compounds in the Baltic Sea fish and Finnish fresh water fish
- Pesticides recidues in human diet - cumulative risk assessment
- PlantLIBRA: Plant food supplements. Levels of intake, benefit and risk assessment
- Use of residue containing raw milk as feed
Plant health
- Development and application of a risk prioritization scheme of invasive agricultural and horticultural pests
- Enhancement of efficiency of plant health inspection, risk assessment and control of healthy plant production by adoption of a broad spectrum diagnostic approach
- Enhancing greenhouse producers’ ability to manage risks of quarantine pests
- Enhancing the landscaping sector’s ability to manage the risks of quarantine pests
- Pathways of entry of pests and their significance
- The suitability of the Finnish climate for fire blight epidemics