CATALYSE | World Food Safety Day

Thursday , 05 de June 2025 - 10:00

Universidade Católica - Porto

Rua Diogo Botelho, 1327
4169-005 PORTO
Portugal
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CATALYSE is a Horizon Europe project aiming to promote the implementation of new innovative solutions for food safety to solve the real needs of end-users in the food supply chain.

Over the past year, the CATALYSE has actively organized initiatives focusing on food safety innovations and has gathered valuable insights into the needs and priorities of the food safety community. With this wealth of engagement, we are excited to officially launch the Community of Practice to all stakeholders, on 5th June 2025, in a free in person event dedicated to celebrating World Food Safety Day.

Date: 5th June 2025
Hours: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM 
Location: Carvalho Guerra Auditorium

It will feature a lineup of speakers and innovators discussing the latest ideas and developments in food safety.


World Food Safety Day - Agenda

09.30 - 10.00 Reception and Registration
10.00 - 10.15 CATALYSE presentation - CATALYSE coordination
10.15 - 10.30 Community of Practice - CATALYSE WP4 team
10.30 - 11.00 Managing the impact of the Green Agenda on Food Safety - Roy Kirby
11.00 - 11.30 Food contaminants and risk management in Europe - Alejandro Rodarte
11.30 - 12.00 Advancing Predictive Microbiology in the Digitalization Era to Enhance Risk Assessment and Food Safety - Antonio Valero
11.30 - 11.45 AI in Microbiology Food Safety - A critical momentum - Spore.bio
11.45 - 12.00Pioneering Safe Food : the future of Food safety for the common good - Association Pioneering Safe Food
12.00 - 14.00 Networking lunch
14.00 - 14.30 What can AI do for food safety? - Ákos Bernard JÓZWIAK
14.30 - 14.45 The Digitalization of Food Safety - Food in Tech
14.45 - 15.00  Persistence of Microorganisms in Food Production Environment: How Sequencing can help in Identifying and Eradicate Contamination Sources other entity - Gonçalo Almeida
15.00 - 15.15 Blendhub (tbc)
15.15 - 15.45 How Genomics can help in providing healther and safer food - João Carriço
15.45 - 16.30 MATCHMAKING (Coffee-Break)
16.30 - 16.45 The Importance of Quality in the Food Industry and Tools for Analytical Process Control - Silliker Portugal S. A.
16.45 - 17.15 How to Sell Food Safety - Nuno F. Soares
17.15 - 17.30 LoopiX PATHOGEN DETECTION in 90 minutes! - Christeyns
17.30 - 17.45 Precis Salmonella – Rapid and Validated Method for Salmonella Detection in 48 Hours - ChemicalNor
17.45 - 18.00 Closing


We look forward to your participation as we foster innovation and collaboration in global food safety.

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