The benefits and risks inherent to food technology and food safety in Europe have brought these topics to the centre of public interest in the recent years. The challenge for the future is to maintain the food sector competitive and innovative at a global level, while increasing the safety of production processes along the food chain. Therefore research priorities have to be developed at the European level which integrate these requirements into a long term perspective. The objective of this study is to identify precise and manageable research priorities, which strengthen specific areas in the food sector. For this purpose, a group of high level experts met for .
