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Workshop on New Forms of Data, Food & Food Policy, Aberdeen, 30 July 2018

New and emerging forms of data from sources such as social media, sensors, and the internet of things have the potential to not only transform how consumers communicate about the food they eat, but also how they make choices about its quality, safety and authenticity. For producers and regulators these new data offer up a host of new opportunities around diagnostics, monitoring, provenance and fraud prevention and detection.

This workshop brought together researchers, regulators, policy makers and food industry representatives to discuss how the power of data can be leveraged to transform the food sector and influence future policy.

View workshop presentations on Slideshare.

Food & Social Media: More Useful Than You Might Think!

The project team had a stall at the 2017 Huntly Hairst Farmer’s Market during the Sunday of the Huntly Hairst. During the day, the team engaged the public in discussions on the use of social media data to improve food safety and standards. Attendees to the stall were also invited to take part in activities including voting on which social media platform they felt could provide the most useful data for improving food safety and standards, manually sorting and assessing social media data, and using a software tool to visualise and analyse a large social media data set.

Food & Social Media: Just #foodporn or a Force for Good?

Two of our team members have presented as part of the programme for British Science Week 2018 in Aberdeen. Members of the public listened to short presentations from Prof Peter Edwards and Food Standards Scotland representative Dr Susan Pryde describing their work using social media data to help shape food related policy in Scotland. The presentations were followed by a debate and discussion.