IFT FIRST Scientific & Technical Forum
July 14, 2025 – July 16, 2025
Chicago, USA
IAFP 2025
July 27, 2025 – July 30, 2025
Cleveland, OH
The IAFNS Food Microbiology Committee and Food & Chemical Safety Committee are presenting at the International Association for Food Protection 2025.
Priorities to Improve Messages about the Healthfulness of Carbohydrate Food Sources
July 31, 2025
Virtual, Event
Learn about priorities to improve messages about food sources of carbohydrates based on healthfulness.
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Dialogue on Research Approaches and Measures of Gut-Brain Axis Effects
August 7, 2025
Virtual, Event
To better understand the state of the science on the gut-brain axis connection, specifically how these effects are measured (i.e. biomarkers), this invitation-only meeting will assess the level of consensus around these measures, and considerations for study design.
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IAFNS at IUNS-ICN 2025
August 24, 2025 – August 29, 2025
Paris, France
Presentation entitled “Science-Based Food Classification Focused on Processing and Formulation – For Public Health,” to be given at IUNS-ICN 2025 in Paris in August.
- Jasna Kovac, Penn State University
- Stephanie Smith, Washington State University
- Kristin Schill, UW-Madison
Monday, July 28 from 3:45-5:15PM
Speakers:
- Abby Snyder, Cornell University
- Martin Wiedmann, Cornell University
The IAFNS Food & Chemical Safety Committee is presenting:
Myth Busting - Safety of Food Additives and Ingredients ExpandMonday, July 28 from 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Speakers:
- Myths and Realities of Food Ingredient Safety, Dr. Craig Llewellyn - Principal Scientist, Exponent.
- Challenges & Approaches for Ensuring Safety of Existing Food Ingredients & Constituents, Dr. Norbert Kaminski - Michigan State University.
- Association versus Causation, Myths and Realities, Dr. Dominik Alexander - President and Principal Epidemiologist, MetaMethod.
IAFNS is also participating in the following roundtable discussion:
Trusted Data Sharing: Collective Learning for Food Safety Insights ExpandTuesday, July 29 from 1:30-3:00PM
Panelists include:
- De Ann Davis, Western Growers
- Shelby Hollenbeck, FMI
- Martin Hahn, Hogan Lovells
- Cronan McNamara, Creme Global
- Wendelyn Jones, IAFNS
For more information on the IAFP 2025 Annual Meeting, click here
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IAFNS Science Innovation Showcase – 2021
December 14, 2021 – December 15, 2021
Virtual, Event
We are pleased to organize the IAFNS Science Innovation Showcase in a virtual format.
IAFNS Science Innovation Showcase is committed to delivering the high-quality insights and connections that our membership and our community expects, in a format that is accessible from the comfort of your home or office.
What’s What?! Probiotics, Postbiotics, Prebiotics, Synbiotics, and Fermented Foods
December 9, 2021
Virtual, Event
This webinar will review definitions and the central attributes for probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics, postbiotics and fermented foods leaning on the consensus publications developed by the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics.
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Food Safety & Science Across Canada – Food Innovation
December 8, 2021
Virtual, Event
Join us on December 8 (3pm – 430pm ET) and explore Food Innovation Research Across Canada. This one session of our 4 part series on Food Safety & Science Across Canada. We are pleased to be collaborating with researchers from the following universities: McGill University, University of Manitoba, University of British Columbia, Dalhousie University.
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Society for Risk Analysis — Annual Meeting
December 5, 2021 – December 9, 2021
Washington DC, USA
This interdisciplinary meeting features a host of scientific sessions on a range of environmental, food and engineering topics.
Strengthening Research Integrity: Which Areas Should the Research Community Focus On?
November 30, 2021
Virtual, Event
Join us for a presentation of the study “Strengthening research integrity: which topic areas should organisations focus on?” and panel discussion on how the topic areas prioritized in this study compare to those prioritized and implemented within the food and nutrition research community.