Building on the success of Food Science 2016, the dates for Food Safety Analysis 2018 are announced as 27-28 November, 2018 at the world-class scientific venue, Biopolis, Singapore. For the 2018 event, Separation Science is pleased to confirm that Dr Bert Popping joins the event as Conference Chairman and Scientific Programme Advisor.
This 2018 regional event will attract international thought leaders, with confirmed participants including Emma Bradley.
The conference is a two-day event and will cover the broad range of current topics and trends, as well as expanding the scientific poster programme and providing a first-class exhibition and networking opportunity. The technical programme will focus on key disciplines within food safety and testing techniques, providing attendees with a unique opportunity to keep ahead of current and future techniques.
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With increasing globalisation, our food supply chains are becoming increasingly complex, making them vulnerable to contamination or fraud.
With a large range of testing abilities, our multi-disciplinary approach gives an overall view of any food issue you may be facing, providing you with the complete information you need to make the strong decisions needed to address these issues.
HorizonScan enables you to conduct top-line risk mitigating investigations and be alerted to food safety issues very quickly.
The meeting is open to everyone, and aims to engage early career researchers in debate and discussions about all areas of analytical biosciences, and provide the opportunity to network with other researchers in the field.
Plenary speakers will begin each session with an exciting founding perspective and vision of a technique, followed by peer-reviewed papers from early career researchers. Together, this will provide an overview of current research into new technologies and applications.
The aim is to give delegates a broad overview of the current state of the art for analytical techniques, with detailed examples of their applications in biosciences. As such, each contribution will aim to demonstrate the quality and value of each methodology.
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Dr Adrian J. Charlton will be giving a talk on Finding the needle in the haystack: Targeted and non-targeted detection of food contaminants and adulterants, March 22nd, 11.55-12.40
In the era of the discerning consumer, attitudes toward food choice have changed markedly from the need to provide basic nutrition to the desire to make informed choices relating to food intake. Whilst the organoleptic properties of food are doubtless a major factor for continued consumer preference, it is also clear that initial choices are often made on the basis of promotional labelling. A product label may declare the contents to be “Halal beef, aged for 21 days that is free from allergens”. How can we tell if the premium price we pay is for no more than the ink used to create the extra words on the label?
Consumer preferences are leading to the provision of greater product choice and associated elevated pricing for “premium” products, providing an incentive for economic food fraud. In the scientific communities, an extensive phase of evidence gathering is being undertaken in relation to food composition and associated labelling. Work at the Fera is being driven by a desire to fully understand the composition of food and its implications with respect to consumer choice, public health and value for money. Large bodies of data are being collected and interpreted against specific claims relating to quality, safety, authenticity and increasingly sustainability.
In this context, this presentation provides an insight into the current state-of-the-art for the broad ranging compositional analysis of food and the highly complex data this generates.
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Fera strives to support the needs of the global wine industry from vineyard to wine glass. Accurate and reliable testing solutions to ensure quality in every glass from soil health, disease management to detection and testing including proficiency tests.
With the food industry increasingly subject to scrutiny, testing to ensure compliance with food safety regulations to protect public health and support traceability is a must.
HorizonScan is a database of global raw material and commodity issues covering all areas of food integrity.
To Promote Standards, Reliable Methods of Analysis and Interinstitutional Cooperation, for better Control of Mycotoxins and Related Contaminants.
The workshop will incorporate presentations and discussions with International Experts on:
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Vahid Mojtahed is speaking on Friday 8 June 2018 at 9am on Food Fraud Early Warning Systems
Plant science plays a crucial role in many of the challenges facing the modern world including food security, environmental sustainability and climate change.
Through the development of innovative solutions, plant science can help drive productivity and sustainability across the bioeconomy. Yet if these novel solutions are going to be adopted, scientists need to develop technologies that are both fit-for-purpose in the real world and that are accepted by the public. To achieve this, we need to develop better interdisciplinary approaches, so we can properly understand the needs and motivations of end-users (consumers, public and private organisations) and multiple stakeholders.
KTN, working in partnership with the University of Sheffield and the UK Plant Science Federation (UK PSF), is organising an event on “Driving engagement, innovation and impact in plant science” on 27th March in Sheffield. The aim of this event is to begin to explore these interdisciplinary approaches and map out how most effectively to engage with the public and consumers, and take into account interests of various stakeholders.
This interactive workshop will bring together plant scientists, growers and producers, food manufacturing companies, social researchers and innovators to explore novel approaches and learning from other sectors, and thus facilitate more effective co-design, knowledge exchange and public understanding.
The event will cover impact studies of Social Science in action in plant science and will include a “Question Time Panel” and debates on key topics of plant science.
KTN will also be launching its pre-competitive R&D vision for the agricultural sector at the event, which includes specific chapters relating to “Improving social awareness and proliferation of required skills”.
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Rick Mumford the Director of Science here at Fera Science Ltd will be speaking at this event.
The last several years have seen many changes in the packaging supply chain. Consolidation on every level – suppliers, distributors, customers – has led to an increasingly competitive market. Data from Smithers Pira forecasts steady growth across the packaging industry: a market valued at $839 billion in 2015 will increase at 3.5% year-on-year and reach a total value of $997 billion in 2020. As this happens sustainability will become an increasingly important factor for decision makers at all stages of packaging value chains.
FuturePack Packaging 2018 reunites Food Packaging Manufacturers, Retailers, Processors, Suppliers and Academia from around the UK for an unmissable morning of sharing best practice, lessons learned, detection & prevention methods. FuturePack Packaging 2018 takes place on the 23rd March at National Agri-Food Innovation Campus.
Fera Science Ltd (Fera) and Newcastle University invites you to join us for the next FuturePack 2018 meeting. Our symposium will be discussing the common challenges the packaging supply chain industry face, training updates as well as a great networking opportunity.
We’ve been busy
Last year we held several meetings under the FuturePack banner with the aim of promoting developments in packaging training and research. One output from of these meetings was the start of the development of the Packaging Technologist Degree Apprenticeship programme, managed by the National Skills Academy Food and Drink with packaging industry input. Subsequently and partly as a result of the FuturePack meetings I am very pleased to be able to advise you of further developments, new postgraduate training and CPD opportunities provided by Newcastle University and Fera Science Limited with funding for PhD studentships through the Institute for Agri-Food Research and Innovation (IAFRI) in areas such as sustainable packaging and smart labels as an outcome.
Objectives for the Symposium
Provisional Agenda
1. Packaging Training Update: An overview of programme aims, structure, content, delivery methods and assessment strategies
2. Food Innovation & Packaging Technology at the NAFIC
3. Strategic Development for Packaging
2018 Speakers include:
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The World Mycotoxin Forum is the leading international meeting series on mycotoxins where food and feed industry representatives meet with people from universities and governments from around the world.
The mycotoxin contamination of various crops and derived products is a global concern because it has significant implications for food and feed safety, food security, and international trade. Despite a lot of research and available interventions, mycotoxin prevention and control remain a challenge for agriculture, and for food and feed industries. Several pre- and post-harvest measures can be taken in tackling mycotoxin exposure, however, they are not fully adequate to eliminate mycotoxins from the food and feed supply chain. In addition, climate change is increasingly affecting the occurrence of mycotoxins worldwide.
Can we ever have a mycotoxin-free supply chain? The 10th conference of The World Mycotoxin Forum aims to contribute to this ultimate goal by taking mycotoxin control to the next level. The conference will offer an excellent way to network, share ideas, and formulate recommendations and conclusions on how to close knowledge gaps.
The 10th conference of The World Mycotoxin Forum includes:
High-quality speakers, ample time for discussions, and every opportunity to establish rewarding contacts are values The World Mycotoxin Forum wants to uphold. The General Conference Chairs – Prof.dr. Rudolf Krska and Hans van Egmond, M.Sc. – and the members of the Advisory Committee are looking forward to meeting you.
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The World Mycotoxin Forum 2018 information
Our scientist Susan McDonald is presenting a poster there:
Susan has extensive experience in the area of mycotoxins analysis using a range of methods but mostly HPLC (high-performance liquid chromatography) and GCMS (gas chromatography–mass spectrometry).
Fera is the UK National Reference Laboratory for Mycotoxins in Food. Fera has extensive knowledge in the analysis of mycotoxins in food, feed and food crops.
View the Mycotoxins proficiency tests that are available from Fapas.