6th AOAC-India's annual Conference Towards Collaborative Leadership to Ensure Food Safety commenced

The 6th AOAC-India’s annual Conference Towards Collaborative Leadership to Ensure Food Safety has been commenced at the Park Hotel in New Delhi. As a prominent food safety conference, it brought together nearly 300 analytical professionals, including top government food safety regulators, eminent scientists, academicians, industry partners, laboratory owners, researchers and students. This two-day event will provide a unique opportunity to assess the emerging trends in the field and discuss strategies to overcome various problems for building our planet a safer place to live.

Pawan Kumar Agarwal, CEO, FSSAI, highlighted the non-profit partnership between FSSAI and AOAC-India and mentioned how government regulators and the private sector can join hand in hand for building a robust analytical ecosystem in the country.

Dr. Ranjan Mitra, President, AOAC-India, stated, "We’re very pleased to have held our Section’s 6th annual conference. We trust that it will offer an immense chance to debate on what it means to develop new food testing methodologies and how it relates to the future of food safety."

The conference comprised keynote lectures, plenary presentations, poster sessions and interactive group discussions, creating a platform for information exchange and knowledge transfer. The eminent speakers (from India, USA, UK and Europe) covered various facets of food analysis, global food safety issues, quality control regulations, food authenticity and capacity building for the running of effective global food systems within the nation. 

Over 50 leading organisations from 6 different countries participated to converse on how to solve complex analytical problems and develop compliant solutions to ensure human health.