TRANSIT workshop at IAFP’s European Symposium on Food Safety, Aberdeen, Scotland, 3-5 May 2023

During the IAFP’s European Symposium on Food Safety in Aberdeen, Scotland between 3-5 May, 2023, a TRANSIT workshop was held under two separate events that were scheduled back-to-back on the 5th of May:

1) S13: Towards the Development of Quantitative Microbiological Risk Assessment for Non-Thermal Technologies

2) T8 (Technical Session): Food Processing Technologies and Viruses and Parasites

Five ESRs and several PIs were present during this workshop (Figure 1). The workshop placed TRANSIT in the international spotlight and the event attracted a broad attention from scientists, policy makers, and food manufacturers from all over the world.

Figure 1. TRANSIT ESRs and Pis at the IAFP workshop

S13 was a symposium focused on microbiological risk assessment applications and organised by TRANSIT partners WU and UoM, with Arla Food Representative Elissavet Gkogka (TRANSIT PI) as convenor. Speakers during this symposium were Georgios Pampoukis (Figure 2) from WU (ESR10 in TRANSIT consortium), Sara Bover-Cid from IRTA, and Aricia Possas from UCO.

Figure 2. Georgios Pampoukis (ESR10) presenting at S13.

T8 was a technical session, which hosted amongst others four TRANSIT speakers (3 ESRs [Theocharia Tsagkaropoulou, Esther Okafor and Domiziana Battaggia] and one PI from Hiperbaric [Mario González]) that presented their work (Figure 3). This session was focussed on food processing technologies – the main focus of TRANSIT.
Next to the four oral presentations Nikolaos Giannoulis (ESR5) presented a poster during the poster session (Figure 4).

Figure 3. ERSs Theocharia Tsagkaropoulou (ESR1), Domiziana Battaggia (ESR4) and Esther Okafor (ESR3) presenting at T8
Figure 4. Nickalaos Giannoulis (ESR5) and his poster during the poster session.

IAFP’s European Symposium on Food Safety 2023 Programme