Knowledge Centres

KNOWLEDGE CENTRES · QUALIFOOD

Organised knowledge for better decisions

Each Centre brings together foundations, pathways, tools and resources around a complex challenge within the agri-food system.

EXPLORE BY DOMAIN

Explore our four Knowledge Centres

Choose the domain you need to understand or manage. Each Centre will continue to grow with new content, case studies and practical tools.

ACTIVE CENTRE

Integrated Food Allergen Management

Understand how exposure risk arises and how to design, implement and verify controls throughout the chain.

  • Primary production, food industry and food service
  • Risk assessment and management
  • Pathways, guides and self-assessments
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ACTIVE CENTRE

Risk-based Quality and Inspection

Turn data, variability and evidence into control and inspection decisions proportionate to risk.

  • Acceptance sampling
  • Statistical process control
  • Experimental design and inspection
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ACTIVE CENTRE

Food Loss and Waste

Methods and tools to identify, quantify and reduce losses, taking production, nutritional, economic and environmental dimensions into account.

  • Management self-assessment
  • Mapping critical loss points
  • Quantification and action planning
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ACTIVE CENTRE

Postharvest Fruit and Vegetable Management

Applied knowledge to preserve quality, understand deterioration and improve decisions from harvest to consumption.

  • Physiology and quality
  • Cold-chain management and preservation
  • Loss diagnosis and prevention
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QUICK GUIDANCE

Which Centre do I need?

Choose the starting point that best matches your problem. You can then combine Centres when a situation calls for more than one approach.

I NEED TO MANAGE ALLERGEN RISKS

Integrated Food Allergen Management

To prevent allergen cross-contact, assess risks, validate controls and communicate reliable information.

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I NEED TO IMPROVE CONTROLS OR INSPECTIONS

Risk-based Quality and Inspection

To choose between sampling, statistical process control, experimental design and inspection prioritisation.

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I NEED TO MEASURE AND REDUCE LOSSES

Food Loss and Waste

To diagnose, quantify, prioritise actions and organise a management plan with verifiable outcomes.

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I NEED TO PRESERVE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

Postharvest Fruit and Vegetable Management

To understand deterioration, preserve quality, manage the cold chain and prevent losses.

Start here
Postharvest or Food Loss and Waste? If your problem stems from the deterioration of fruits and vegetables, start with Postharvest. If you need to quantify, prioritise and manage those losses within an organisation, continue with Food Loss and Waste.
A SHARED MODEL

From knowledge to action

All Centres follow the same logic to support learning and implementation.

01

Understand

Build foundations and a shared language.

02

Assess

Analyse the situation and set priorities.

03

Implement

Turn criteria into actions and controls.

04

Verify

Check performance and improve.

Looking for a specific tool or pathway?

Access practical resources directly or choose a guided pathway based on your goal and field of work.