IMEKOFoods4

IMEKOFoods4 is the 4th International Conference on Metrology in Food and Nutrition dedicated to developments in food related measurements, using a variety of techniques and approaches, as well as the key topics of harmonization and standardization.

Sciensano and IMEKO TC 23 join forces for this 4th IMEKOFoods edition and are delighted to invite scientists, PhD students, health professionals, food inspection and control agencies, laborayories for food control and the industry to discuss and present their findings on metrology in food and nutrition.

The conference offers:

- Plenary and Keynote lectures

- Oral and poster sessions

- Workshops

- Vendor seminars and exhibitions

The conference topics include, but are not limited to:

- Food quality

- Food composition

- Food Safety (trace elements, speciation, environmental- and processing contaminants, toxins, pesticides, veterinary drugs, hormones,...)

- Food integrety, adulteration, authenticity and fraud

- Food Omics

- Food microbiology

- Natural and bioactive compounds

- Dietary supplements, nutraceuticals

- GMO

- Sequencing and NGS

- Nanomaterials

- Food packaging and food contact materials

- Food Processing

- Nutrition

- Nutritional Epidemiology

- Food consumption, Bioavailability

- Dietary intake, Risk assessment

- Quality assurance, Reference Materials, Proficiency Testing, Measurement Uncertainty

- Metrology and metrological traceability

- Accreditation and Standardisation

During these conference days, presentations and discussions on new measurement techniques, analytical methods and devices, reference materials, measurement uncertainty, data integration and sharing in support of food analysis may encourage new collaborations and strenghten the existing ones.