ACS Symposium on Chemistry and Safety of Acrylamide in Food

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A Symposium "Chemistry and Safety of Acrylamide in Food" is to be held at the American Chemical Society Meeting in Anaheim , California , March 28 - April 1, 2004 . The symposium is organized by Agricultural and Food Chemistry Division, ACS, and topics will include Mechanisms of Formation in Food, Effect of Processing, Analysis, Distribution in the Food Chain, Preventing Formation in Food, Sources of Human Exposure to Acrylamide, Risk Assessment, Biomarkers of Exposure, Safety and Toxicology.

Thirty leading experts from industry and academia have agreed to speak at the Symposium and the program will be published towards the end of 2003

Further information from:

Prof Don Mottram, The University of Reading, School of Food Biosciences , UK
e-mail: d.s.mottram@reading.ac.uk.

Dr. Mendel Friedman, Western Regional Research Center , Agricultural Research Service, USDA.
e-mail: mfried@pw.usda.gov.