Spanish groups in joint effort for traceability in aquaculture

Organisations in Spain have signed an agreement of scientific collaboration to drive forward the traceability of fisheries and aquaculture.

The agreement was signed by the National Fish and Shellfish Canners Association (ANFACO) and the Networking Biomedical Research Centre on the Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBERobn).

The initiative aims to strengthen food security and nutritional labelling, in an effort to spur follow-up and certification from the first stages of production or extraction until it reaches the consumer.

The collaboration agreement will last a year but it could be deferred by mutual agreement of the two parties. The agreement will also focus on the area of physiopathology of obesity and nutrition.

This partnership will help ANFACO comply with the European legislation that requires demonstration of the nutritional breakdown of food originating from fisheries and aquaculture through scientific and hospital studies.

The association said the agreement also will allow them to join forces to develop activities of multidisciplinary and transnational research; undertake bioavailability studies of canned tuna to establish the relationship between ingestion patterns and diverse biomedical markers related to healthful maintenance.

CIBERobn will serve as adviser, executor and supervisor of the design and action plans undertaken. It will also drive the issuance of publications that serve as reference to the research carried out in matters of health and sanitary management, facilitating its public diffusion.