EFSA's Second Scientific Conference - Shaping the Future of Food Safety, Together, Milan, Italy,
The conference will focus on two major themes – Assessment Science; and Science, Innovation and Society – and will be organised in plenary and breakout sessions, with the latter covering the following topics:
• Open risk assessment
• Data: co-creating added value
• Key challenges in scientific advice - Weighing evidence and assessing uncertainties
• Nutrition challenges ahead
• Novel chemical hazard characterisation approaches
• Microbiological risk assessment - Challenges and opportunities
• Drivers for emerging issues in animal and plant health - The global nutrition at risk
• Advancing environmental risk assessment
• Expertise for the future
Call for abstracts for dedicated poster session
Scientists are also invited to submit abstracts for the poster session. Particularly early-career researchers and scientists are asked to send contributions to present work relating to the themes of the conference.
The accepted abstracts will be published in a dedicated EFSA Journal Supplement and the related poster is to be presented at the conference during the poster sessions.
Abstracts for the poster session should be submitted by 3 April 2015, at the latest, through the conference’s website www.efsaexpo2015.eu
Young Researchers Initiative
To help early-career researchers participate in the conference, EFSA is offering to make a financial contribution to the travel and accommodation costs, to a selection of accepted abstracts. More information on this initiative can be found on the conference website.
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