{"id":56,"date":"2014-09-05T11:08:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T11:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eurofir.org\/plantlibra\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2017-04-10T14:12:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:12:50","slug":"objectives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.eurofir.org\/plantlibra\/sample-page\/objectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PLANT food supplements: Levels of Intake, Benefit and Risk Assessment \u2013 PlantLIBRA<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><b>Coordinators: <\/b>Prof. Patrizia Restani &#8211;\u00a0University of Milan (IT) and Dr Luca Bucchini &#8211; Hylobates Consulting, Rome (IT)<\/p>\r\n<p>The use of plants and plant derivatives to maintain health has been the popular choice throughout Europe for many centuries. Consumption of teas, digestive drinks, juices, elixirs and extracts prepared from botanicals for health maintenance has become part of European cultural heritage; plant food supplements are a modern-day extension of this process.<\/p>\r\n<p>PlantLIBRA (PLANT food supplements: Levels of Intake, Benefit and Risk Assessment) aimed to foster safe use of food supplements, containing plants or botanical preparations, through\u00a0increased science-based decision-making by regulators and food chain operators. To make informed decisions, competent authorities and food businesses need more quality-assured and accessible information and better tools.<\/p>\r\n<p>ePlantLIBRA was\u00a0designed to develop, validate and disseminate data and methodologies for risk- and benefit assessment, and implement sustainable international cooperation, which is essential to ensure the quality of the plants imported to\u00a0the EU.<\/p>\r\n<p>Supporting science-based decision-making and safe use of plant food supplements were\u00a0the driving aims of PlantLIBRA shared by all partners.\u2028 And, as with all EU-funded projects, these aims are aligned closely with\u00a0policy, major regulatory bodies and stakeholders.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">In four years, PlantLIBRA\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">delivered<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>A meta-database containing new and existing data on consumption, benefits, adverse effects, biological activity of constituents and contaminants, investigating methods to identify and control the PFS<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Accessible risk\u2010benefit models for PFS\u00a0based on scientific investigation, which are able to provide data on assumptions as well as risks and benefits<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Dissemination of results to stakeholders to assist science-based decision making, enhance international cooperation and harmonisation, as well as consumers awareness.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurofir.org\/plantlibra\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/EU-Flag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  wp-image-351 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eurofir.org\/plantlibra\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/EU-Flag-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"EU Flag\" width=\"99\" height=\"65\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.eurofir.org\/plantlibra\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/EU-Flag-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.eurofir.org\/plantlibra\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/EU-Flag-1024x675.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 99px) 100vw, 99px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>PlantLIBRA\u00a0received funding from the European Union\u2019s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no. 245199<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLANT food supplements: Levels of Intake, Benefit and Risk Assessment \u2013 PlantLIBRA Coordinators: Prof. Patrizia Restani &#8211;\u00a0University of Milan (IT) and Dr Luca Bucchini &#8211; Hylobates Consulting, Rome (IT) The use of plants and plant derivatives to maintain health has been the popular choice throughout Europe for many centuries. 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