Preliminay Program

Wednesday 28 September

  9:00 - 9:50

Inauguración

   
  9:50 - 10:40 Dra. Margaret A. Lawson - President of IFT (Institute of Food Technologists) 2005-2006, USA.
"Invisible Borders in the New World: The impact of food globalization"
   
 10:40 - 11:20 Coffee break
   
 11:20 - 12:10 Dr. Esteban Carmuega, Scientific Advisor to the Danone Group, Argentina
"Functional food, towards an evidence-based nutrition"
   
 12:10 - 13:00 Dr. Jaime Amaya University of Campinhas, Brasil
"Contribution of nutritional science to the development of new products"
   
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
   
 14:30 - 15:20 Dr. Jorge Welti de la Universidad de las Américas, México
"New trends in food freeze-drying"
   
15:20 - 16:10 Dra. María Soledad Tapia de la Universidad Central de Venezuela
"Use of multiple methods of intervention or technologies for microbial control in food preservation"
   
 16:10 - 16:40 Coffee break
   
 16:40 - 17:30 M.Sc. Alejandro Ariosti, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología industrial, Argentina. "Food-packing plastic: trends and innovations in technologies and materials" 
   
17:30 - 18 :20 Ing . Ricardo Dunogent - Instituto Argentino del Envase, Argentina
"Packing and technologies of innovation in food and drink"
   
 18:20 - 19:20 Round table: Biotechnological processes in food technology
Dr. Carlos Azambuja, Genia, Uruguay
"Traceability in the meat industry, tenderness and marbling"
Lic. Ana López, LATU, Uruguay
"Molecular characterization of soybean cultivars through microsatellites"
Lic. Fabiana Rey, LATU, Uruguay
"Fungal systems as productive reactors"
Dra. Mary Lopretti, LATU, Uruguay
"Production and synthesis control of statins as functional food in pleurotus mushrooms"

Thursday 29 September

  9:00 - 9:50 Ing. Agr. Gustavo Brito, Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria, Uruguay.
"Differentiation and value adding of Uruguayan beef and sheep meat through their nutritional characterization and their impact on human health and product preservation"
   
  9:50 - 10:40 Dr . Gary Fulcher, University of Manitoba, Canadá
"Biochemistry of whole grains: challenge for manufacturers and nutritionists"
   
 10:40 - 11:20 Coffee break
   
 11:20 - 12:10 Dr. Jorge Welti de la Universidad de las Américas, México
"Methods, criteria and modelling for selecting plastic films in modified athmospheres"
   
 12:10 - 13:00 Dra. Olga Martín, from University of Lleida, España
"Cut fresh fruit and use of edible films"
   
 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
   
 14:30 - 15:20 Dr. Gustavo González, Facultad de Agronomía e INAVI, Uruguay.
"Traditional techniques and innovating processes in enology: technological aspects related to wine polyphenol composition"
   
 15:20 - 16:10 Dra. Diane Birt de Iowa State University, USA
"Polyphenols and cancer prevention"
   
 16:10 - 16:40 Coffee break
   
 16:40 - 17:30 Master María José Crosa Laboratorio Tecnológico del Uruguay
"Development of a vacuum-impregnation cheese salting line for a dairy SME"
   
 17:30 - 18:20 Dra. Pilar Cano del Instituto del Frío de España
"New manufacturing technologies for vegetables. Impact on their health potential"
   
 18:20 - 19:20 Round table: Role and importance of the food science and technology associations
Dra. Margaret Lawson, Institue of Food Technologists (IFT), USA.
Dr. Gustavo Barbosa Canovas, Washington State University (USA)
Dra. Olga Martín, from University of Lleida, España
Dra. Cristina López, Sociedad Uruguaya de Ciencia y Tecnología de Alimentos (SUCTAL)
M.Sc. Gisela Kopper, Asociación Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Ciencia y Tecnología de Alimentos (ALACCTA)

Friday 30 September

  9:00 - 9:50 Dr. Gustavo Barbosa Canovas, Washington State University (USA)
"Advances in food dehydration, canning and freezing"
  9:50 - 10:40 Dra. Diane Birt Iowa State University, USA
"Functional food and nutritional supplements"
 10:40 - 11:20 Coffee break
 11:20 - 12:10 Dra. Delia Rodríguez de la Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brasil. "Chemical tools for developing new products"
12:10 - 13:00 M.Sc. Adri Bester, London Bank State University, Reino Unido
"Nutritionally functional hydrocoloids"
 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:20 Lic. Patricia Narvaiz Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
"Food irradiation for the immunocompromised"
 15:20 - 16:10 Dr. Amauri Rosenthal de EMBRAPA de Brasil
"High pressure food processing: considerations on safety, quality, costs and consumers"
16:10 - 16:40 Coffee break
16:40 - 17:30 Dr. Adrián Saporiti, SAPORITI, Argentina
"Functional food: the product idea"
 17:30 - 18:20 Prof. J. Claude Cheftel, Universidad de Montpellier, Francia
"European Union food nutritional labelling"
18:20 Closing Cocktail
C O N G R E S O S ---& ---R E U N I O N E S