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Acknowledgements
The Concerted Action ‘Quality Control Measures in the Production and Processing Chain
to Reduce Fusarium Mycotoxin contamination of food and feed grains’, abbreviated as
‘Mycotochain’, contract number FAIR-CT98-4094, has been carried out with financial
support of the European Union under Framework Programme 5. We are grateful for the
opportunity the grant provided for meetings of authors from the participating groups and
for financial support for the printing of this document.
We express our appreciation to all partners for their involvement in the project, and our
sincere gratitude to the task group chairmen, Peter Ruckenbauer of Austria, Ton van
Osenbruggen of the Netherlands and Angelo Visconti of Italy, because without their
enthousiastic input this document would not have been printed. We also thank Annalisa de
Girolamo, Bill Hollins, Phillip Jennings, Hein de Jong, David Kloet, Jürgen Köhl, Gerrit
Koornneef, Ellis Meekes, Thomas Miedaner and Hans Pettersson for their contributions
in this document. Furthermore, we thank Hans de Keijzer for critical reading of the
manuscript and Monica Olsen for her information on HACCP. Piet Boonekamp, Ruud
van den Bulk, Gert Kema, Huub Löffler and Cees Waalwijk of Plant Research
International, the Netherlands, are acknowledged for discussions regarding Framework
Programme 6 and Marian van Harmelen for her help compiling the document.