9th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Analysis

The RAFA organizers, the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (UCT Prague, Czech Republic) and Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR), part of Wageningen University & Research (The Netherlands), would like to invite food scientists from academia and industry, and representatives of national and international agencies, control authorities, governmental and commercial laboratories to attend this event.

RAFA has grown since the conference was launched in 2003. The previous events were usually attended by 800 participants from more than 60 countries of Europe, Asia, America, Australia and Africa, and supported by more than 50 sponsors, exhibitors and media partners.

The RAFA 2019 symposium will provide an overview of contemporary trends in analytical & bioanalytical strategies in food quality and safety control and discuss challenges / novel approaches in food and natural products analysis. Following areas related to recent & emerging issues will be addressed within the RAFA 2019 sessions:

• Mycotoxins, marine and plant toxins
• Migrants from food contact materials
• Processing contaminants
• Pesticide & veterinary drug residues
• Industrial contaminants
• Allergens, antinutrients
• Metals & metalloids & speciation
• Healthy nutrients & vitamins
• Flavour significant compounds
• QA/QC & Chemometrics & Big data handling
• Authenticity & food fraud
• Omics in food analysis
• Food forensics
• Microplastics in food
• Novel food bioactives & supplements
• Organic crops & foodstuffs
• Human biomonitoring
• Portable on-site food analysis

Workshops, Seminars, Tutorials

The conference programme will be accompanied by several satellite events alongside workshops, seminars, and tutorials on novel analytical strategies, including workshops on “Vibrational Spectroscopy and

Chemometrics for the Monitoring of Food and Feed Products and Contaminants Detection”, and “Human Biomonitoring in Food Quality and Safety”, and “Microplastics in the Food Chain”, and “Portable Food

Analysis and Citizen Science”. Other sessions include “Data Quality and Smart Data Handling in Food Analysis” and “METROFOOD-RI: Workshop on Metrology in Food and Nutrition”.

An interactive seminar will discuss “Step by Step Strategies for Fast development of Smart Analytical Methods”.

The EU Reference Laboratories Colloquium will include a workshop on “Experiences, Achievements and Challenges Addressed by EU Reference Laboratories”.

The Food Authorities’ Summit — EU and Beyond, will include a seminar from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) on “Food Safety Issues Beyond the EU” as well as workshops on “Food Safety in China: Past, Present and Future” led by China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment (CFSA).

An open day of the EU-China-Safe: Delivering an Effective, Resilient and Sustainable EU-China Food Safety Partnership, will focus on the latest developments and strategies in food safety and authenticity control and demonstration of the best practice for a joint EU-China food safety control system. RAFA Smart Lab showcasing FoodSmartphone and PhasmaFood projects will demonstrate smart analysers and applications for on-site testing of food quality and safety. Another session will discuss the collaboration challenges within the EU framework programme for research and innovation.

Vendor Seminar and Exhibition

Vendor seminars provide the opportunity for leading companies to introduce recent instrumentation and analytical strategies for advanced food quality and safety control. An exhibition of modern instruments, laboratory equipment, reference materials, and consumables used in food analysis will be an important part of the symposium.

Young Scientist Opportunities

A platform for young scientists will be offered to present their scientific work; typically 20% of the contributed oral presentations is assigned to the next generation. Also a number of RAFA 2019 Student Travel Grants has been provided. The best poster presentation(s) by a young scientist(s) will be awarded with the prestigious RAFA Poster Award and sponsored poster award(s).

In summary, RAFA 2019 will offer again a high-quality scientific programme with top-quality presentations followed by stimulating discussions, a series of satellite events, a large state-of-the-art exhibition and an attractive social programme. Scientific contributions will be presented by leading scientists through keynote lectures and by contributed oral and poster presentations. The RAFA 2019 programme will be tailored to provide a lot of opportunities for networking as well as exploration of the latest results of the food analysis community.

More details can be found on the RAFA 2019 website>>

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