22-26 March 2010
Bamako, Mali

Important dates:
Receipt of Abstracts - 15th November 2009
Notification of accepted abstracts, program and logistic information - 1st December 2009
Full paper submission, deadline for early (reduced) registration fees - 31st December 2009
For more information, you can visit the conference website

Chester Food Science Week
3 conferences in 1 week - 22-26th March 2010
2nd International Chester Food Science and Technology Conference 22-24th March
6th EMS Conference - Environmental and Food Mass Spectrometry 24th March
1st Food Nanotechnology Meeting 25-26th March
Come to all or any one.

The Chester Food and Environmental Science Week 2010 will be held at the University of Chester from the 22nd to 26th March 2010, and comprises of three conferences:

22nd – 24th March: The Second International Chester Food Science and Technology meeting (ICFST)
24th March: The 5th National Meeting on Environmental Mass Spectrometry (EMS 2010)
25th - 26th March:  Nanotechnologies for food and consumer products

The deadline for registration and payment is the 22nd February 2010. Late registration will incur a supplementary fee of 10%. Further details <http://www.chester.ac.uk/scicomm/conferences>

To register please visit our website:www.chester.ac.uk/scicomm

7th TICH Annual Scientific Conference

Theme: “Innovations towards Achieving the Innovations towards Achieving the Millennium Development Goals”

The deadline for abstract submission is January 20th 2010
The deadline for registration is April 15th 2010

Conference audience: Conference participants will include researchers, Policy makers, Academicians, NGOs, Government Ministries, FBO, UN agencies and Donors.

Registration Fees:
1. Individual registration USD 100.00
2. Group registration (4 up to 5 participants) USD 300.00
3. Founder Members of TICH and students USD 50.00 per person

Conference coordinator, P.O. Box 2224-40100, Kisumu, Kenya. Tel: +254-57-2023972, Cell: +254-715-709272, Fax: +254-572024577. Email: conference@gluk.ac.ke website: www.gluk.ac.ke

22-26 August 2010 Cape Town, South Africa

SAAFoST is organising the first-for-Africa IUFoST world Congress to be held from 22 to 26 August 2010 in Cape Town. The congress theme is,"Food Science Solutions in an Evolving World" and the venue is the International Convention Centre. You are invited  - both to attend and to assist! Non-SAAFoST members wanting to be kept up to date with congress mail and announcements, can be placed on the Congress mailing list by registering their interest via the official Congress website: www.iufost2010.org.za or by e-mailing a request to: info@iufost2010.org.za

26-30 September 2010 Asilomar, Califonia, USA

The Bioavailability 2010 conference on micronutrients will be held at Asilomar, California, September 26-30, 2010. Asilomar is a state funded facility, beautifully located on the Pacific Ocean between Monterey and Carmel, south of San Francisco. We anticipate some 150-200 participants.

The Bioavailability 2010 conference has the following major themes:
1) The role of bioavailability when setting recommendations (DRI, DRV)
2) Genetic/individual influences on bioavailability 
3) Biofortification  
4) Bioavailability - applied studies and advances in methodology. 

There will be plenary talks as well as poster sessions. If you would like to be included on the mailing list, please email or fax the following information to the Organizing Committee (email: crosario@ucdavis.edu, fax #: +1 530 752 3406). Name: Organization: Address: City: Zip code: Country: Phone: Fax:
Email: For additional information and contact details see the attached "First Announcement" it includes the web site information (currently under construction).