RAFA 2024 Symposium will provide an overview of contemporary trends in the ANALYTICAL & BIOANALYTICAL STRATEGIES IN FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY CONTROL and discuss the CHALLENGES & NOVEL APPROACHES IN FOOD AND NATURAL PRODUCTS ANALYSIS.

Following tentative RECENT & EMERGING ISSUES will be addressed in the RAFA 2024 sessions:

• Food additives, healthy nutrients & vitamins
• Food allergens
• Flavour & off-flavours
• Alternative proteins
• Mycotoxins, marine and plant toxins in a changing climate
• Pesticide & veterinary drug residues
• Process induced contaminants
• Environmental contaminants
• Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
• Metals & metalloids & speciation
• Migrants from food packaging materials
• Micro- and nanoplastics in food
• Food authenticity, fraud and forensics
• (Multi)omics in food analysis
• Illegal and natural food supplements
• Exposomics & Human biomonitoring
• Sensors & Portable food analysis
• Circularity and sustainability
• Green food analysis
• Next generation sequencing for food quality & safety
• Effect based analysis & bioassays
• Spatially resolved food analysis
• Food legislation requirements for food control
• Artificial Intelligence in food analysis
• QA/QC, Chemometrics & Big data handling

For more information please visit the RAFA 2024 website.