On behalf of the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (UCT Prague, Czech Republic) and Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR), part of Wageningen University & Research (The Netherlands) we are delighted to invite all food scientists from academia and industry, and representatives of national and international agencies, control authorities, governmental and commercial laboratories to attend the 11th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Analysis (RAFA 2024).

In line with the concept of the previous events, RAFA 2024 Symposium will provide an overview of contemporary trends in the ANALYTICAL & BIOANALYTICAL STRATEGIES IN FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY CONTROL and discuss the CHALLENGES AND NOVEL APPROACHES IN FOOD AND NATURAL PRODUCTS ANALYSIS. Following tentative RECENT & EMERGING ISSUES will be addressed in the RAFA 2024 sessions:

• Food additives, healthy nutrients & vitamins
• Food allergens
• Flavour & off-flavours
• Alternative proteins
• Mycotoxins, marine and plant toxins in a changing climate
• Pesticide & veterinary drug residues
• Process induced contaminants
• Environmental contaminants
• Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
• Metals & metalloids, including their speciation
• Migrants from food packaging materials
• Micro- and nanoplastics in food

• Food authenticity, fraud and forensics
• (Multi)omics in food analysis
• Illegal and natural food supplements
• Exposomics & Human biomonitoring
• Sensors & Portable food analysis
• Circularity and sustainability
• Green food analysis
• Next generation sequencing for food quality & safety
• Effect based analysis & bioassays
• Spatially resolved food analysis
• Food legislation requirements for food control
• Artificial Intelligence in food analysis
• QA/QC, Chemometrics & Big data handling