Scientific Themes

Abstracts should be submitted under one of the Congress themes listed below. Each theme includes a range of focus areas to guide submissions.

Food Processing and Engineering

• Advanced food preservation and processing technologies
• Process innovation and delivery systems
• Scaling up traditional technologies
• Biotransformation and functional fermentation for health
• Traditional foods for future applications

Food Attributes: Chemistry and Sensory

• Food and analytical chemistry
• Flavour chemistry and sensory science
• Colour and pigments in food systems
• Texture, rheology and material properties of foods

Food Safety, Quality, and Risk Communication

• Foodborne pathogens and prevention strategies
• Microplastics and nanomaterials in food systems
• Safety regulations and global harmonization
• Risk perception and communication education

Food Packaging Innovations and Environmental Impact

• Intelligent and smart packaging
• Biodegradable and sustainable packaging materials
• Packaging policy and traceability labelling

Functional Foods, Bioactives and Health Promotion

• Functional foods and supplements: safety and health outcomes
• Microbiome interactions and physiological impacts
• Integration of food science, nutrition, pharmacology, biotechnology and toxicology
• Synthetic biology and food biotechnology innovation
• Precision and personalised nutrition

Nutrition, Policy, Classification, and Public Health

• Dietary guidelines and public health nutrition
• R&D support for nutrition and function-related labelling and claims
• Food classification systems for health and safety communication
• Global nutrition, food security and policy
• Clean label initiatives and supply chain regulation
• Regulatory adaptation under the One Health framework
• Harmonisation of safety and health claim review processes

Sustainable Food Systems and Global Food Security

• Food systems and climate change
• Circular economy and zero-waste approaches
• Resilient food supply chain technologies and management
• Emergency and humanitarian food systems
• Emerging global supply chain management models

AI, Data Science, and Digital Transformation in Food Systems

• Foodomics and multi-omics approaches
• Digital twins for food chains and agriculture
• Artificial intelligence for sensory and quality prediction
• AI-driven analysis of food consumption and innovation

Education, Capacity Building and Workforce Transformation

• Global frameworks for food education
• Digital tools in food science education
• Teaching and communicating risk
• Youth capacity building in food and nutrition

Public-Private Partnership and Open Innovation

• Pre-competitive research initiatives
• Incubators and accelerators for agritech and foodtech startups
• Industry-led consortia
• Evolving academia–industry–government partnerships
• International funding mechanisms for food science and technology innovation

Herbal food

• Immune boosting 
• Weight control
• Cardiovascular Health 
• Microbiota health
• Sleep management 
• Hepatic function 
• Vital boosting
• Memory Enhancement