Call for abstracts
Abstracts are invited for oral and poster presentations on the following conference topics:
- Biodiversity as a food-based approach for improving nutrition
- Influence on climate change, soil and variety on nutritional composition of foods
- n-3 fatty acid content and requirements in relation to sustainable fisheries
- Challenges for trade including labelling, health claims and biodiversity
- Food composition (including biodiversity) related policies, standards, recommendations and code of conduct for sustainable diets
- Database management systems: quality and interchange related issues
- New emerging technologies for analysis of nutrients, bioactive compounds and food allergens in food
- Delivering food composition data via emerging innovative tools and devices for dietary assessment and health applications
- Efficient capacity development at three levels (individual, institutional and political/environmental)
- Current activities on food composition at national and regional food data network
The deadline for abstracts' submission is May 27th, 2011. (now closed)
Guidelines for abstracts' submission
Please prepare your abstract for oral and poster presentations following the guidelines below:
- Write the abstract in one paragraph
- Do not exceed 300 words
- Language: English
- Font type: Arial, 10 points
- The entire abstract must fit in one page with the following structure:
- Title
- Rationale and objective(s)*
- Materials and methods*
- Result(s)*
- Conclusion(s)*
*Please consider that these components are not imperative. If you are presenting a project or an organisation, then you may want to use another structure or even no sub headers for your text.
- Five keywords are placed towards the end of the text
Please do not include the list of authors and affiliations, as these will be filled in online in the abstracts submission tool.
Acceptance of abstract
The 9th IFDC Scientific Committee will evaluate your abstract and delegates will be informed by mid June 2011 about the evaluation results (acceptance (oral or poster presentation) or rejection) via e-mail. The accepted abstracts will appear in the book of abstracts as submitted by the authors.