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Food Security Brainstorming - Meeting with Thales Group Delegates
Industry Technology Discussion of The
Food Safety Consortium (FSC)
Date Date
8 July 2016 25 July 2016
Abstract Abstract
With ITDO’s collaborations, an industry exchange session ITDO received an official delegation from the Thales Group
to solicit views from the industry regarding needs in the (Thales) and the Consulate General of France in Hong
areas of food supply logistics and cold chain management Kong and Macau (French Consulate), and coordinated the
was organized. Participants shared actively on their views technology seminar together with Department of Electrical
and needs. The result was the suggestion of a food supply Engineering and Department of Industrial and Systems
intelligence and technology development platform, which Engineering, Faculty of Engineering. Sharing on PolyU’s latest
would serve as a real-time, one-stop food safety portal for aviation and transportation technology research development,
professional and general public access, and development of research facilities, and teaching programmes with Thales
novel testing methodologies. major research and development focus were made for
possible cooperation.
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