COMPARE Food Ring Trial - wet

Due to the importance of foods in the transmission of zoonotic agents, within COMPARE Task 2.7 framework a food metagenomic proficiency test was organised between April and June, 2018. The aim of the proficiency test waa to compare microorganisms identity and corresponding abundances in a food matrix tested by shotgun metagenomic sequencing. The food matrix was smoked salmon spiked with a mock community containing bacteria, viruses and parasites. The food matrix was dispatched to each proficiency test participant frozen, including a thermo-logger to monitor the shipping temperature. It was expected that each Participant received the spiked smoked salmon shipped from DTU on April 24 2018, performed nucleic acid extraction and shotgun metagenomic sequencing and upload sequencing data.