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Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS HAS NOW CLOSED
Background to the conference: The number of 'food scares' has grown enormously over the past decade; imported foods found to contain dangerous contaminants such as drugs, dyes and bacterial toxins are now reported frequently. As demands from consumers and regulators grow regarding food safety, the need to develop technologies to detect contaminants within food has increased.
The ASSET 2011 Academic Committee has now CLOSED the Call for Papers. Papers have been received under the following Conference Themes.
Applicants who submitted papers for the ASSET 2011 Conference will be notified of their acceptance, or otherwise before the end of December 2010.
Key Conference Themes
Theme 1: Reviewing recent progress in delivering safe, authentic and traceable food to the consumer.
Theme 2: Identifying the greatest current and emerging threats to the integrity of the agri-food supply.
Theme 3: Delivering new analytical means of verifying the integrity of the agri-food supply chain.
Examples of Topics for Special Focus Contributors
1. Advances in monitoring schemes for feed and food contamination identification.
2. Advances in methods/processes for improving feed and food traceability.
3. Emerging biotoxins: environmental contaminants, processing contaminants, microbiological threats which may pose new issues with supply chain integrity.
4. Fingerprinting-based approaches to early risk identification.
5. On-site analysis e.g. on farms, slaughterhouses, feedmills, processing plants.
6. The issues that current regulations, or lack of regulations, pose in delivering total food integrity.
7. Laboratory accreditation and method validation.
8. Key findings from National, EU and International food safety research projects.
9. The potential roles of nanomaterials (positive and negative) in food safety.
10. Innovations in combating food fraud.