Assuring the integrity of the food chain: Fighting food fraud
International conference ‘Assuring the integrity of the food chain: Fighting food fraud’ (FOODINTEGRITY 2016) will be held at the Diplomat Hotel Prague, in Prague, Czech Republic, on April 6–7, 2016.
Conference organizers, the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic and FoodIntegrity project, are delighted to invite all the representatives of funding bodies, food retailers, processing food industries, quality brands, public administration, control laboratories, NGOs and the research community to attend this conference.
‘Assuring the integrity of the food chain: Fighting food fraud’ (FOODINTEGRITY 2016) conference will focus on the latest research outputs on developments and strategies in the field of food integrity - safety, quality, authenticity and traceability, including:
- Tools for food integrity assessment
- Gaps in current research in food authenticity on topics:
- Non targeted analysis
- Complex foods
- Transparency along the food chain
- Rapid methods
- Analytical tools for food authentication
- Demonstration how a European knowledgebase on analytical methodology and databases for food authenticity can be exploited by stakeholders
In addition, series of workshops will be organised to include:
- Food Crime, occurrence, motivations and mitigations
- Industrial perspective for strategies applied for assuring food authenticity
- Authenticity of herbs and spices
- Citizen science potential approaches to food integrity
On-site demonstration of the approaches for food authentication developed by the FoodIntegrity project will also provide unique opportunity to discuss with the FoodIntegrity experts the latest developments and strategies in the field of food integrity - safety, quality, authenticity and traceability.
Deadline for submission of an abstract both for oral and poster presentation is February 15, 2016; last minute abstracts are accepted until March 15, 2016.