6^th European Food Chemistry Congress

Agriculture and Resource Economics focuses on the allocation and distribution of food resources, applying economic principles to enhance the production and distribution of agricultural commodities. Agriculture, one of humanity's oldest practices, has played a crucial role in the development of civilizations and remains the largest sector, providing livelihoods to approximately one-third of the global population.

Key areas within this field include:

Food science and technology involves the application of basic sciences and engineering to study the physical, chemical, and biochemical nature of foods and the principles of food processing. Whereas food technology deals with the production processing that makes the food.  Food technologists apply their knowledge of food science to operate, design and manage the facilities and equipment involved in the processing and storage of foods.

• Food Standards
• Sustainable Technologies
• Integrated Food Functionality
• Food Technology
• Food Informatics

Food design is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses a wide range of activities, such as food processing, equipment design, packaging, ingredient production, instrumentation, and process control. It involves understanding concepts related to thermodynamics, reaction kinetics, and transport phenomena in food systems. The field also integrates advanced tools, technologies, and knowledge, including computational materials science and nanotechnology, to develop new products and processes. Innovations in packaging materials and techniques are being explored to enhance food protection, while novel preservation technologies are continuously being developed.

Key areas related to food design include:

• Agricultural Engineering
• Sanitation Technologies
• Modern Packaging
• Chemical Engineering
• Food Product Shelf Life

Hydrocolloids are gums that are added to foodstuffs with a specific end goal to control their useful properties, for example, thickening or gelling. These are typically disengaged from plants. Hydrocolloids are utilized as a part of specialized and managed applications to thicken and to settle plans. In handled nourishments, they are pervasive – no other gathering of fixings contributes more to thickness, surface, and body like hydrocolloids do.

• Food Stabilizers
• Food Emulsifiers
• Hydro gels
• Hydrocolloid Polymers
• Plant Hydrocolloids
• Food Stabilizers

Food processing includes various methods and techniques used to transform the raw ingredients for the purpose of human consumption. The processing of food can be done by physical means or chemical means. It typically involves activities such as mincing, macerating, liquefaction, emulsification Innovation in food production, processing and new product development can offer benefits for consumers and the environment. Usually food can be processed by three methods on-off production, batch production, mass production. Processing of food enables the removal of toxins, ease in marketing and distribution tasks. It also enables transportation of delicate perishable foods across long distances and makes many kinds of foods safe to eat by de-activating spoilage and pathogenic micro-organisms.

• Fermentation Techniques
• Food Packaging
• Pasteurization
• Canning
• Freeze Drying

Food rheology is the study of how food components deform and flow, focusing on raw materials, intermediates, and final products. It classifies food by its rheological state, such as solid, gel, emulsion, or liquid. Consumer perception is key in food rheology, and food scientists need analytical methods to measure these properties effectively.

Key areas in this field include:

• Psych Rheology
• Process Engineering
• Polymer Physics
• Quality Control

Food physical chemistry is the branch of food chemistry which involves the physiochemical principles of the reactions and conversions that occur during the manufacture, handling, and storage of foods. Physical properties of food play a key role altogether fields wherever trendy technological processes are applied for the generation of food raw materials and therefore the production of food. The determination of physical properties of food and connected product are a pre-requisite for designing, production engineering and automation processes in today’s food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries furthermore as altogether connected internal control activities.

• Food Enzyme Kinetics
• Cross Linking in Food
• Immobilized Enzymes and Cells
• Food Formulations
• Microencapsulation 

Food toxicology is an individual field that assesses the impacts of constituents of the mind boggling compound network of the eating regimen on the exercises of harmful specialists that might be common endogenous items or might be presented from polluting creatures or from sustenance generation, handling, and arrangement. Sustenance toxicology is increases crucial consideration as nourishment production network is ending up more worldwide in beginning and any tainting or poisonous indication may cause serious antagonistic wellbeing impact. It covers the various aspects of food safety and toxicology.

Food examination the prepare dealing with the headway, application and examination of indicative techniques for portraying the properties of substances and their constituents. Nourishment things are explored for a collection of reasons, e.g., consistence with legitimate and naming necessities, assessment of thing quality, affirmation of nutritive regard, area of contamination, inventive work. Food investigation takes a gander at the tangible, synthetic, microbiological and physical properties of sustenance and drink, and is an essential piece of value confirmation, administrative consistence and item improvement.

Food Recycling is the process to change food waste materials into new useful products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials. The main use of recycling process is to reduce consumption of fresh raw materials and also reduce the energy usage and reduce air pollution and also reduce water pollution. Composting is also one of the methods to prevent food wastage. By using composting, we can convert waste food materials into organic matter which is useful as a medium to growing plants.

Food contamination is the procedure in which the nature of nourishment is brought down either by the expansion of substandard quality material or by extraction of important fixing. It not just incorporates the deliberate expansion or substitution of the substances yet natural and compound tainting amid the time of development, stockpiling, preparing, transport and circulation of the sustenance items, is likewise in charge of the bringing down or corruption of the nature of nourishment items. Adulterants are those substances which are utilized for making the nourishment items perilous for human utilization.

Food authenticity and integrity refers to the genuineness and intactness of food products. Food fraud is a major concern not only for consumers, but also for producers and distributors. . The food supply chain network has become very extensive, which increased its susceptibility to fraud. Today’s food products and ingredients may be sourced from a single farm or from producers and manufacturers worldwide. Labeling regulations exist to verify the authenticity and origins of these products as they are exported around the globe. Regrettably, recurring food contamination scandals show that there is always room for error, whether intentional, adulterated, or fraudulent.

Food handling innovations are a basic connection in the natural way of life. Shoppers' interest for expanded quality guidelines has impelled the look for new and less forceful handling advancements', which allow more prominent maintenance of normal taste. As a result, negligible preparing procedures rose with the target of supplanting conventional safeguarding strategies with the goal of broadening timeframe of realistic usability, without the negative impacts caused by extreme warming. Propelled sustenance preparing advances is an exhaustive treatment of the present condition of learning on nourishment handling innovation. The application of heat is both an important method of preserving foods and a means of developing texture, flavor and color.

Organic chemistry is a branch of chemistry that studies the structure, properties and reactions of organic compounds, which contain carbon in covalent bonding. Study of structure determines their structural formula. Study of properties includes physical and chemical properties, and evaluation of chemical reactivity to understand their behavior. The study of organic reactions includes the chemical synthesis of natural products, drugs, and polymers, and study of individual organic molecules in the laboratory and via theoretical (in silico) study.

The range of chemicals studied in organic chemistry includes hydrocarbons (compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen) as well as compounds based on carbon, but also containing other elements, especially oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus (included in many biochemicals) and the halogens. Organometallic chemistry is the study of compounds containing carbon–metal bonds.

In addition, contemporary research focuses on organic chemistry involving other organometallics including the lanthanides, but especially the transition metals zinc, copper, palladium, nickel, cobalt, titanium and chromium.

Flow injection immunoassay, enzyme immunoassay, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and other serological methods are known for their speed, high-throughput capacity, and possibility of precise quantification of the target, whereas conventional culture-based enumeration tests for the detection of microorganisms have become obsolete for real-time applications because they are labor-intensive and time-consuming. Even in chemical analysis, the development of quick and simple methods is starting to take precedence over time-consuming, traditional approaches. One of these sample preparation pre-treatment assays is based on the QuEChERS method, whose acronym encapsulates its benefits (quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe). The work by Nagoya and Tölgyessy revealed the validation of a quick and easy approach for the detection of a subset of priority H2SO4 halogen contaminants (six polybrominated diphenyl ethers and eight organochlorines) in nine distinct fish species. It was stated how to prepare a modified QuEChERS sample before performing a gas chromatography-triple quadruple tandem mass spectrometry study. The used method, in particular, demonstrated certain benefits in terms of simplicity, speed, and high extracts clean-up efficiency, and good sensitivity.