NMKL and AOAC Europe Novel Food Symposium
Novel Food Symposium – the need for standardization of analytical methods, new reference materials and PT schemes for quality assurance in the routine
The symposium focuses on key regulatory and food safety challenges associated with the rapidly evolving landscape of novel foods, including plant-based proteins, insects, and cultured meat. This event will highlight analytical challenges in testing novel food products, point ways how to comply with European safety standards. By bringing together experts, policymakers, and industry professionals, the conference will provide an excellent forum for discussing solutions to ensure the safety and integrity of innovative food products entering the market.
Topics
- Risk Assessment and Public Health Impact
- Analytical Challenges and Solutions
- Innovations and Emerging Trends in Food Analysis
- Sensory Evaluation and Expectations
- Regulatory Aspects and Future Directions
Keynote Speakers
Food safety aspects of emerging food production systems
- Masami Takeuchi (FAO)
Dr Masami Takeuchi received a Ph.D. in food science and human nutrition from Washington State University, USA. After working in the area of nutrition for 7 years, she has been working in the area of food safety. In 2006, she joined the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, Italy, to provide food safety scientific advice to Members as well as to the Codex Alimentarius Commission.
Her main responsibility lies on food safety risk assessment that deals with emerging issues, technologies and cross-cutting issues. These activities include safety assessment of food/feed derived from biotechnologies and other new technologies such as cell-based food production. She is the manager of the global database on safety assessment results of the foods derived from GMOs, entitled FAO GM Foods Platform (http://fao.org/gm-platform). Scientific Advice topics that she leads include food safety aspects of gene editing, cell-based food production, precision fermentation, modern food technologies and synthetic biology. She also advises FAO Members on the use and applications innovative technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI) for food safety and the application of whole genome sequencing (WGS), for better food safety management. Through the work on WGS, she advises Members to apply the WGS methodologies and approaches to detect pathogens including AMRs.
She has a field experience working at the regional office for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok, Thailand for 4 years, thus while she takes up various normative global initiatives on food safety, she also assists countries and regions for their food safety capacity development. She has a field experience working at the regional office for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok, Thailand for 4 years, thus while she takes up various normative global initiatives on food safety, she also assists countries and regions for their food safety capacity development. The relevant current initiatives includes the capacity development initiative to apply a capacity assessment tool for monitoring and analysis of residues of veterinary drugs in foods (FAO ATLASS-RVDF Tool).
The registration fee will be 390 EUR and covers symposium attendance, morning and mid-day coffee, lunch in the restaurant, light snack and drink! Dinners at own costs.
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Call for Abstracts
Deadline 17 February 2025
Disclosure: Submitting an abstract is not a registration to the Symposium and is non-binding. The organizing committee will let you know before 28 February 2025 if offered to give a talk and provide the necessary information. Most speakers must cover the expenses themselves, including registration as participant.
Venue
Sokos Hotel Presidentti, Helsinki, Finland
Eteläinen Rautatiekatu 4
Helsinki, 00100 Finland
