Revolutionising MRL Risk Management in Global Horticulture - Your chance to be involved

FPC have been working with University of Lancaster on a new development for the horticultural sector.

Background

PRISM is a first of a kind algorithm-based technology uniquely capable of accurately predicting the breakdown rates of commercial pesticides, to any legal, or individual grower set, Maximum Residue Level (MRL).

This enables PRISM to help protected crop growers around the world reduce MRL failure risks, via an easy-to-use App based service.

But PRISM is capable of far more than making a simple, one-off prediction for how quickly your crop will reach your required MRL.

Once you’ve informed PRISM that a pesticide product has been applied to your crop, its algorithms immediately start to build an accurate, hyper-local and continuous model of conditions at your location.

This allows PRISM to respond to changing conditions at your location and effectively recalculate your crops MRL status on a minute-by-minute basis. The App then alerts you to any significant changes in the time it will take to meet your specified MRL.

The aim for PRISM is to significantly reduce grower MRL business risk, contribute to improvements in supply chain efficiency and reduce food waste.

The team are working hard to deliver PRISM to the global industry in 2027

How you can get involved

The website is now live: https://www.prismapp.co.uk/ and the explainer video for the PRISM App is embedded here: https://www.prismapp.co.uk/prism-explainer-video

Please complete a very quick 4 question questionnaire which we’d like as many industry stakeholders to engage with as possible. The survey is located here: https://s.surveyplanet.com/0tu1h666

If you are a grower of particularly protected crops and would like to be involved in the trial work, or an industry stakeholder and would like more information, please contact Kelly at FPC at kshields@freshproduce.org.uk.