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Please find below an overview with all the latest information. A wide range of presentations awaits you. Here are just some of the topics that we will be covering:

Highlights 

Current situation in Europe

• Recent and future developments of EU legislation in the field of food fraud
• JRC’s work on authenticity proof/food detection

Analytical approaches in laboratory and on-side

• Food authenticity by NMR spectrometry
• Next-generation sequencing – possibilities and limitations
• Mobile food fraud detection devices and USP guidance for non-target methods

IT tools for authenticity

• Predictive tools and supply chain tools 

Practical application/examples from the sectors

• Rapid authentication of coffee blends
• Food profiling – the value to assure food authenticity rather than to investigate for food fraud – experience from the Swiss market
• Identification of animal species used in industrial meat products
• Guidance document towards food authenticity, an initiative of ILSI Europe

Competent authorities on current developments in EU-Member State countries

• Current status of the National Reference Centre for Authentic Food in Germany
• Food crime matters – the UK response to dishonesty in food supply chain

Who do you meet?

Groups that should take part:

Managing directors, boards of directors, members of supervisory boards, managers and employees in the field of

• Quality control
• Analysis
• Research and development
• Legal and regulatory affairs
• Marketing
• Food science
• Technology

Sectors that should take part:

Managing directors and general managers, specialists and executives from

• Food industry, e.g. manufacturers of food products, ingredient suppliers
• Agricultural producers
• Food retailers
• Regulatory authority, e.g. food inspection offices
• Contract laboratories
• Auditors
• Research institutes
• NGOs and public interest groups

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