FoodIntegrity 2016

We are delighted to invite all representatives of funding bodies, food retailers, processing food industries, quality brands, public administration, control laboratories, NGOs and the research community who work in the food authentication area, to attend conference ‘Assuring the integrity of the food chain: fighting food fraud’.

This conference, part of the 3^rd meeting of the FoodIntegrity project (www.foodintegrity.eu), will focus on the latest research outputs on developments and strategies in the field of food integrity - safety, quality, authenticity and traceability, from the project and beyond, including:

• New project activities on
  1. Non targeted analysis,
  2. Complex foods,
  3. Transparency along the food chain,
  4. Rapid methods
• Food Fraud System in the EU (and beyond – worldwide network)
• Demonstration how a European knowledgebase on analytical methodology and databases for food authenticity can be exploited by stakeholders
• Analytical tools for food authentication

• Food Crime, occurrence, motivations and mitigations
• Industrial applications for assuring food authenticity (technical workshop on analytical approaches for food authentication)
• Authenticity of herbs and spices
• Citizen science potential approaches to food integrity

Paul Brereton, FoodIntegrity project coordinator & Prof. Jana Hajslova, on behalf of FOODINTEGRITY 2016 Organizing Committee