September 23-25, 2009
Welcome to the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) International Forum. Contrary to popular belief, by far the greatest risk from our food supply is food borne pathogens, rather than intentional additives or unintentional contaminants. New methods of food processing are needed to produce safe food products that have better sensory and nutritional quality than the traditional thermal canning/pasteurization processes. This international conference will offer a two and half day forum at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois to address research on the emerging technologies in this important area of food safety and security. This symposium will provide a forum for discussion regarding these technologies to examine which are the most promising for certain food products.
Goals and Objectives
- To strengthen international collaboration, awareness, and understanding of the wide spread worldwide food borne pathogen problem, emphasizing the technologies under development to ameliorate the problem.
- To bring leading key researchers from Europe, North and South America together for a conference thus expanding cross-cultural collaborative ties among leading scholars in this area of world importance.
- To describe and discuss the most promising technologies available so that scientists and food industry leaders are aware of these technologies to improve food safety and technology.
- To document results of the conference with published proceedings and website resources and to foster research planning to benefit consumers worldwide.
Organizing Committee
Elvira de Mejia, Susan Brewer, Graciela Padua, Hao Feng, Brad Beam, Youngsoo Lee, Scott Morris and Bill Artz