CREME SOFTWARE LTD

Their core work

Creme Software is an Irish SME that develops probabilistic modeling and risk assessment software for the food safety sector. Their tools help food businesses and regulators simulate dietary exposure to chemical and biological hazards, supporting evidence-based decision-making across the food chain. In H2020 projects, they contribute computational modeling expertise — from predicting climate change impacts on foodborne pathogens to assessing chemical hazards in infant food. Their work sits at the intersection of software engineering and food safety science, turning complex risk data into actionable decision-support systems.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

With projects starting between 2018 and 2020, Creme Software's H2020 timeline is compact, making a clear evolution arc difficult to establish. However, a progression is visible: from packaging safety modeling (GLOPACK, 2018) toward broader food system challenges including climate-driven food safety risks (PROTECT, 2019) and international infant food safety with regulatory implications (SAFFI, 2020). The trend shows increasing complexity — moving from single-material assessment toward multi-hazard, multi-criteria decision systems spanning EU and Chinese regulatory frameworks.

Creme Software is moving toward integrated decision-support platforms that combine climate, chemical, and biological hazard modeling for global food safety challenges.

How they like to work

Creme Software operates exclusively as a participant, never leading consortia — consistent with a specialist software provider that brings a specific technical capability (modeling tools) into larger research teams. With 50 unique partners across 15 countries from just 3 projects, they join large, diverse consortia rather than small focused teams. This pattern suggests they are a trusted technology component provider: easy to integrate, reliable in delivering their specialized contribution without needing to drive the overall research agenda.

Despite only 3 projects, Creme Software has built a network of 50 partners across 15 countries, reflecting their participation in large international consortia. The SAFFI project's EU-China scope extends their reach beyond Europe.

What sets them apart

Creme Software occupies a rare niche: a dedicated software company specializing in food safety risk modeling. While many food research groups build ad hoc models, Creme brings professional-grade simulation and decision-support software as a product. This makes them a valuable consortium partner whenever a project needs robust, validated computational tools for dietary exposure assessment or hazard characterization — they provide the software backbone that other partners populate with their domain data.

Highlights from their portfolio

• SAFFI
  Addresses infant food safety across EU and China with a comprehensive multi-hazard approach combining chemical, biological, and decision-support system components.
• PROTECT
  Tackles the emerging intersection of climate change and food safety through predictive modeling — a growing concern that positions Creme at the frontier of food system resilience.