ICBF-2006 Scientific Topics

The scientific topics for presentation would be titled as following:

Food Bioprocessing- A global approach for advancing sustainable production of value added food

There would be emphasis on three main points as below:

• Food and raw materials characterization and properties
• Biocatalysis and food biotechnology
• Bioprocess engineering for food and feed products development
   
• Food and raw materials characterization and properties:
  this heading would comprise following topics :
  • Rheological properties
  • Equilibrium properties: aw, pH, antioxidant
  • Transport properties
  • Chemical properties
  • Sensory properties
  • Nutritional properties
  • etc.

• Biocatalysis and food biotechnology:
  this would cover following areas:
  • Microbiology of food
  • GM foods
  • Predictive microbiology (food safety and risk assessment)
  • Microorganisms detection
  • Enzyme and biocatalysis improvement
  • etc.

• Bioprocess engineering for food and feed development:
  following could be possible components under this:
  • Rational process development
  • Reactor design
  • Downstream processing
  • Waste and by-products treatment (environmental care)
  • Food preservation (oxidative stability, antimicrobials…)
  • Food packaging
  • Life cycle assessment
  • Sensors
  • etc