SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME RESEARCH BUDGET 7FP FOOD RESEARCH

BY KEITH NUTHALL FOOD, biotechnology and agriculture research projects will command budgets of Euro 1.9 billion from 2007-13 under a draft rewritten European Union (EU) seventh framework programme (FP7). Other targeted research budgets under the Euro 54.5 billion scheme proposed by the European Commission of potential relevance to the food sector include Euro 5.9 billion on health, Euro 1.8 million on environmental research, plus Euro 3.4 billion on nanotechnology, materials, and manufacturing. Food companies can bid for this money for research projects, if they ...


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