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The aim of this work package is to provide a description of the management and coordination specified to ensure a successfully run project and details of the plans for reporting and meetings.

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Management and coordination

The aim of this work package is to provide a description of the management and coordination specified to ensure a successfully run project and details of the plans for reporting and meetings. A project board (the coordinator and WP leaders) will be created to monitor PlasticTrace activities, facilitate the completion of deliverables to meet the deadlines set and take responsibility for frequent communication between the participants.

Plastic Trace Project Coordinator

Andrea Giovannozzi
a.giovannozzi@inrim.it
INRIM
Italy
Role: Coordinator
WGs: WG1, WG2, WG3, WG4, WG5, WG6
Andrea M. Giovannozzi is a permanent researcher of the “Physical chemistry and Nanotechnology” group at INRIM and head of the Biosafety Class 2 lab. His main research activities concerns the development of sensisitve and innovative analytical methodologies, mainly based on vibrational spectroscopy techniques (FT-IR, Raman Spectroscopy, SERS), for the detection of a wide range of contaminants in food and environmental matrices, including micro and nanoplastics. He led several tasks in different European metrological projects (Ind15SurfChem, IND56 Q-AIMDS, MetvsBadBugs and FP7 SetNanoMetro). He is part of the management team of the National Metrological infrastructure for food safety (IMPreSA) and the European Metrology Network on Food Safety (Food-MetNet). He is a member of Organic Analysis working group/CCQM at BIPM and chair of the VAMAS TWA45 “Micro and Nano Plastics in the Environment “, LRE for ISO147/SC2/JWG1.
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Meet the other Work Packages

WP1

Development of Micro- and Nanoplastics Reference Materials under metrological criteria

The aim of this work package is to develop Micro- and Nanoplastics Reference Materials that mimic real Microplastics particles, with relevant polymer type, shapes, sizes and degradation status, as found in food and in the environment.

WP2

Development of routine Analytical Methods for Microplastics in food and environmental samples

The aim of this work package is the development and harmonisation of procedures (including sample preparation) for the characterisation of small Microplastics (100 – 10 µm) (particle number, polymer type, particle mass fraction and surface morphology) in complex food and environmental matrices.

WP3

Development and Validation of innovative characterisation methods for Small Micro- and Nanoplastics

The aim of this work package is to develop sample preparation strategies and measurement methods for small Microplastics (< 10 µm) and Nanoplastics (< 0.1 µm) in food related samples (drinking water and milk).

WP4

Interlaboratory comparison: validation of reference materials and analytical methods

The general aim of this work package is to demonstrate the validity and applicability of the reference materials and the methods developed in WP1-3 via interlaboratory comparisons.

WP5

Creating impact

The results and outcome from PlasticTrace will be disseminated through several channels to reach the different stakeholders and different sectors through a number of activities.