CITPPM – Confédération des Industries de Traitement des Produits des Pêches Maritimes et de l’Aquaculture

CITPPM – Confédération des Industries de Traitement des Produits des Pêches Maritimes et de l’Aquaculture – is the French technical body representing the interests of all fish and aquaculture product processing trades: canned fish, smoked salmon and trout, semi-canned anchovies, cooked shellfish, surimi, seafood delicatessen, salted, smoked and dried fish, frozen products. With a scientific and technical vocation, it provides its expertise to companies in the industry. As a driving force behind applied research, CITPPM coordinates and participates in research programmes aimed at improving food quality and safety. Initiated at the request of the sectors it represents, canned fish, smoked salmon and trout, semi-canned anchovies, these programmes are carried out in collaboration with top-level research bodies, scientific networks and technical centres.  CITPPM is a key player in continuous improvement: recognition of the quality of fishery and aquaculture products is one of the main missions of CITPPM, which designs, drafts and promotes reference documents: NF standards, codes of practice, guides to good hygiene practice and professional decisions. Always up to date with the practices of the professionals it represents, CITPPM ensures that these documents are regularly updated.  CITPPM is also the main contact for French and European administrations on technical and scientific issues relating to processed fishery and aquaculture products, in conjunction with ADEPALE unions ETF and FIAC. CITPPM monitors products on the market, as the sector’s reference body. It reminds professionals of the practices they defined themselves and implements control and analytical monitoring plans designed to check compliance with the fairness and quality of products on the market.  CITPPM also builds and promotes collective databases of self-checking results from professionals, which constitute a reference for the industry and provide greater knowledge of the quality of products from confederated companies.

Role in the project: CITPPM is involved in two work packages of MICROORC: WP3 and WP4.

The role of CITPPM in WP3 is to provide cold smoked salmon to test biopreservation solutions. Three confederated companies of CITPPM producing cold smoked salmon in France will be directly involved in the project to consider the variability of the products, the production environment and the naturally present lactic flora.   In WP4, related to sustainable packaging, CITPPM will conduct shelf life trials on cold smoked salmon with new packaging materials: pilot demonstrations for the best packaging prototypes will be performed in industrial scale in a cold smoked salmon smokehouse. The performance of the materials in the filling and closing operations will be characterized.