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Food Safety Without Borders: IUFoST Graduate Student Paper Competition

 

Food Safety has been identified as a Global Public Good that requires local solutions in close collaboration between the public and private sectors, based on globally applicable principles. Food science and technology students have the unique opportunity to make a difference to food safety in their country or region through the Food Safety Without Borders IUFoST Graduate Student Paper Competition.

 

In keeping with IUFoST’s Vision to Strengthen Global Food Science and Technology for Humanity, food science and technology students at the graduate level were invited to submit academic papers addressing a food problem present in indigenous foods of their country/region in a marketable way with the objective of enhancing global food safety. The finalists participated in the IUFoST 17th World Congress of Food Science and Technology held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on 17-21 August 2014.

 

Eligibility

Food science and technology students enrolled in MSc/MS or PhD programs were eligible to enter. Papers with senior co-authors were acceptable, however, most of the substantive work and contribution of the paper must be directly attributable to an author who met the eligibility criteria above. Each graduate student submitted an abstract and an academic paper prepared under the guidance of an academic supervisor.

 

Academic Paper Submission Requirements

To be considered for the Competition, the academic paper must address in a marketable way a food safety issue arising from an indigenous food from the student’s country or region. It must include sufficient data to support claims and/or conclusions; not have been published elsewhere; and not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

The paper should be no more than 2500 words or 5–6 printed pages, including all images, figures, tables, and references.

 

Awards

The final decisions are shown below:

Award Name Country Paper Title
First Inneke Victor Canada Determination of imperative parameters to enhance the food safety and quality of Indonesia indigenous suger (Arenga pinnata Merr)
Second Matthew Aijuku South Africa Irrigation water as a source of antibiotic resistant and pathogenic E.Coli on irrigated lettuce
Third Qianwang Zheng Singapore Development and real-time PCR combined with immunomagnetic separation (IMS) for the detection of low concentrations and sanitiser-injured Salmonella spp. O mung bean sprouts
Fourth Ifeoluwa Olotu Nigeria Identification of hazards and critical control points for Mosa (an indigenous maize-based street vended snack) processing in south-west Nigeria
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IUFoST Scientific Information Bulletin (SIB)

 

FOOD FRAUD PREVENTION

John Spink, PhD
Summary
Food Fraud – and the focus on prevention – is an important and evolving food industry focus. Even though the vast majority of these incidents do not have a health hazard in some ways they are more dangerous because the substances and actions are unknown and untraceable.  The types of food fraud stretch the traditional role of food science and technology to include criminology, supply chain traceability and other control systems. The food authenticity and integrity testing will be the most complex actions and their value should be assessed in terms of the contribution to prevention. This Scientific Information Bulletin (SIB) presents an introduction, review of incidents, the fundamentals of prevention which then provide insight on the optimal role of Food Science and Technology.
See IUFoST SIBS below for the complete Food Fraud Prevention Scientific Information Bulletin.

 

2017

 

 

 

Congratulations Prof. Dr. Purwiyatno Hariyadi

Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Puwiyatno Hariyadi who has been elected to the position of Vice-Chair of the  CODEX Alimentarius Commission.

Dr. Hariyadi is a Fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology (IAFoST) and Senior scientist, SEAFAST Center; Professor, Dept. Food Science and Technology, Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia.

World Congress

 

Mumbai, India

 

October 23-27, 2018

 

Register at www.iufost2018.com