Team:Nottingham/Human Practices



Human


Practices


Follow our human practices journey to see how advice from academics and industry professionals led us to improve our project.

Where to begin?

The Notox project aims to revolutionise the way in which the safety of our food is maintained. To ensure that we have a positive impact on society in a responsible manner, our Human Practices work involved heavy interaction with numerous stakeholders within the food industry. This ranged from food manufacturers, to food testers and academics with expertise in foodborne diseases. In addition to this, we developed a device that could be industrially viable outside of the lab, which presented us with challenges that required us to consult with electronic engineers as well. Creating a dialogue with our stakeholders was achieved in various ways, such as factory tours, interviews and even an informal coffee break!



We have illustrated the integral points of our Human Practices work in the form of a flow chart, demonstrating the influence that relevant stakeholders had on the direction of Project Notox. For more detail on how we went about it, click the tabs below:

Overview
Industry
Academics

Group Discussion

Public Survey

Our Project

Pro-Pak

Campden BRI

Prof. Mike Peck PhD

Prof. Liz Sockett FRS

Rapid Electronics

EEE Department

Dr Christian Klumpner

Public Survey

As part of our human practices research, we distributed a survey to the public. Discussion on our aims, results and analyses can be found here.

Potential Impact of our Project’s Success

We have created a food safety technology with the potential for significantly reduced time-cost, monetary-cost and reliance on animal testing. As of 2019, the current industry standard of 'challenge testing' is prohibitively expensive for smaller companies and businesses. Our methods will be more accessible to the industry as a whole, as it has the potential to drive down the costs associated with challenge testing. A quicker method of detection allows a higher volume of experiments to be run at once, ensuring food safety for the general public across a broader range of food products.