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International MPU Workshop 2012: Plant Protection for the Quality and Safety of the Mediterranean Diet

Bari, Italy

25 - 27 October 2012

The Workshop will bring together scientists representing a wide spectrum of disciplines, research approaches, and geographical representation of research. Assembling specialists with different perspectives, all focused around the common themes of protecting quality and safety of the Mediterranean diet, provides a stimulating environment for learning, exchanging ideas, and connecting with old and new colleagues.

The Workshop will include presentations at the cutting edge of the specified topics. A major emphasis in the Congress will be the fostering of interaction among participants.

Topics:

• PRE-HARVEST: challenges and prospects in food security, safety and quality through crop health management;
• POST-HARVEST: Advanced safe technologies for postharvest disease and pest management;
• FOOD PROCESSING: Influences of quality and safety of crop produce on food processing.

Potential key subjects within the above general topics:

• From farm to fork: bottlenecks for food quality and safety along the food chains;
• Sensoring: a tool for plant protection and food safety;
• Packaging, logistics, natural protective agents and other low-impact technologies to improve shelf life and safety of fresh-cut products;
• Mediterranean diet: the need to count on safe and good ingredients;
• Producing healthy propagation material for safer food of better quality;
• Nutrition value of virus-infected plants;
• Detection and solutions of Mediterranean phytosanitary emergencies in an global market;
• How the quality and safety of the raw crops affect food processing.
  
  

Visit the Workshop Website for more information!

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