About the event

The ILSI Europe Annual Symposium (IEAS) will be back on 24 & 25 October 2023 in Brussels.

IEAS is a gathering of experts from around the world who meet to shed light on the current and future challenges in food safety, nutrition and sustainability. It is also an opportunity for stakeholders to take part in the debate around those topics and create connections.

This year, we also propose as a side event an interdisciplinary interactive workshop on the health benefits of prebiotics.

Programme and activities

Tuesday 24 October: ILSI Europe Annual Symposium

Scientific sessions and keynote presentations from top-notch experts in the field of food safety, nutrition and sustainability. A breakfast buffet will be available to participants upon arrival and the symposium will be followed by a reception on Tuesday 24.

Call for abstracts

Based on scientific excellence and relevance for the sessions, six abstracts will be selected. Submissions are accepted until July 31st. Presenting authors will be informed between Sept 1st and Sep 15th. If the presenting author is an Early Career Scientist, he/she will get priority over a senior scientist. An Early Career Scientist is defined as postgraduate student or a scientist from academia or industry who has received his/her highest degree (MSc or PhD) within the past ten years. Travel and accommodation for the six selected presenting authors will be covered by ILSI Europe. You can submit an abstract for one of the following sessions:

• Session 1: Ensuring the safety of novel ​foods & ingredients
• Session 2: Beyond bread and beer: unleashing the power of fermented foods
• Session 3: Waste not, want more: creating ​value from food by-products and waste streams​
• Session 4: Addressing Food Safety in the face of​ climate change​
• Session 5: Are you as old as your gut says you are?
• Session 6: One Planet, One Plate: Exploring the Potential of Planetary Diets​

Wednesday 25 October: Prebiotics “sandpit”
Identifying knowledge gaps and a roadmap for building a health claims portfolio

Interdisciplinary interactive workshop organised by the Prebiotic Task Force to identify current gaps in scientific understanding and support for prebiotic health benefits and the link to microbiota modulation.

Objectives

• Provide a state-of-the-art overview of the scientific evidence on the health benefits of prebiotics and the link to microbiota
• Identify the current routes to make a prebiotic claim for food or food supplements in Europe and compare these with worldwide health claim regulations ( North America, Asia-Pacific).
• Design and co-build a roadmap to progress scientific support for prebiotic health effects and health claim