Grants

FoodDocs OÜ is a company that creates a new e-government solution for the food handlers in the European Union to create themselves a compulsory food safety plan for their companies, and then manage their food safety documents that are in conformity with the requirements provided by law, comprehensively and easily.

​GRANT PURPOSE
The aim of the project is to create a comprehensive food safety system for the Estonian food handlers – a convenient and fast cloud-based dashboard where one can manage everything related to food safety. This includes a food safety plan, the requirements imposed on personnel, the monitoring required by law (pest control, laboratory analyses, critical control points) to receive filtered information about changes in legislation, and a training environment that takes into account the area of activity of the food handler, as well as the information sharing environment between the Veterinary and Food Board and the food handler. The aim is also to introduce the dashboard to the neighbouring country Finland, that is also leads the way in integrating exemplary e-government services.

As a result of the project, Estonia's entire food safety monitoring system will be converted from the manual paper form into a digital and automated one. The dashboard itself will start working for the food handler, sending reminders and necessary information that will allow them to quickly and easily modify any required documentation. All the required service providers will be found there (e.g., cleaning agents, pest control, analyses, training). It will also record the entire history of the company's food safety plan.

GRANT RESULT
The value of this project is to make the food safety plan a viable product that companies' food handlers can use as a tool. The described dashboard has also been introduced to the neighbouring country Finland and the first customers have already digitized their food safety documentation.

This grant will enable a web platform-based environment for automatic creation of a food safety plan and an administration environment for the management of the activities provided for in the plan.

GRANT PURPOSE
The purpose of the innovation grant is to create the best innovative technical solution for the development of the following components: to create a web platform-based environment for the automatic creation of a food safety plan; to create a web platform-based administrative environment for the management of the activities provided for in the food safety plan; to create a training environment for achieving the conditions set for the personnel in the food safety plan; and to ensure the sustainability of the web platforms, including information security, backup, version management, etc.

GRANT RESULT
The grant resulted in an accurate technological description in preparation for developing the content of the service/product.

Today, the documentation on the approval and the food safety of the most food handling companies (both the creation and the day-to-day compliance) is done on paper, which is time-consuming, entails material costs, as well as increased risks of damaged or lost records. Large-scale shortcomings are in data processing, recording, modification and storing (i.e., traceability requirement) which, technically, could be very easy to eliminate. The aim of FoodDocs is to solve this problem for the customer as easily and understandably as possible.

GRANT PURPOSE
The purpose of the development grant was to develop the technical solution elaborated in the framework of the innovation grant: to create a web platform-based environment (i.e., smart-application) to automatically create food safety plans by using, among other things, statistics and experience from other food handlers/VFB for developing the best solution (i.e., automatic case study) for ensuring food safety and to ensure the sustainability of the web platforms, including information security, backup, version management, etc.

GRANT RESULT
As a result, this grant enabled an MVP (minimum viable product) software to be accomplished.

GRANT PURPOSE

The goal of the project is to bring food safety from the company level to the top of the entire supply and value chain, for which a new food production traceability software product will be created. The goal is for it to include the following functionalities: 1) Digital recipe book that stores accurate information about ingredients and products, thereby being the basis for detecting deviations in production; 2) Smart traceability system that allows batch-by-batch monitoring and management of the movement of food and raw materials and production-related data throughout the supply chain; and 3) Collection, storage and analysis or a large amount of data, which includes the origin of products, production processes, transport data, etc., and detects deviations in real time (e.g., violation of temperature or humidity parameters) to ensure food safety and quality.

GRANT RESULT

As a result of the project, the listed functionalities have been developed, we're created a new traceability product, and food safety has been moved from the enterprise level to the entire supply and value chain.