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Call for Abstracts

Deadline for Abstracts: 31 October 2008

Deadline for Full Papers: 31 December 2008

Oral and poster presentations are invited in relation to specific topics within the broad field of the production, properties and application of powdered ingredients manufactured from milk, whey streams and other dairy products. 

This may include non-traditional processes which have the potential to be applied in dairy ingredient manufacturing, as well as those which have been designed specifically for dairy processing. Similarly, ingredients topics may include pure dairy components and ingredients, dairy ingredient functionality in traditional dairy foods or interactions with non-dairy ingredients in mixed food systems.

It is planned to develop a balanced program that includes aspects of “process”, “product” and “process-product interaction” in relation to spray-dried dairy ingredients.

The Symposium will include the following themes:

• Advances in the development of dairy spray drying systems (including pre- and post-drying steps, such as concentration and agglomeration processes)
• Modelling and control of the spray drying process
• Beyond spray drying – alternative technologies for the preparation of dried dairy ingredients
• Characterisation of dairy powder properties (including physical, chemical and microstructural aspects of dried and concentrated dairy ingredients)
• Functionality and applications of spray-dried dairy ingredients (including performance and stability of reconstituted, recombined or encapsulated ingredients in food systems).

Both review papers & original scientific and technical reports will be welcome. It is planned to publish a selection of these papers in a special edition of Dairy Science and Technology (formerly Le Lait) in 2010.

Accepted papers would be published free of any publication fee to the author but publication would still be subject to the usual editorial process and publication conditions of the journal. These papers will also be included in the complete Proceedings of the Symposium, to be made available in electronic form to all registrants.

Oral and poster presentations with a high level of scientific and technical content will be welcome from dairy processors and equipment manufacturers as well as research organizations.  However, sales and marketing presentations or “advertorials” will not be accepted for presentation in the plenary sessions.

Initial expressions of interest to present at this Symposium must be made through the Online Abstract Manager by 31 October 2008.  The Online Abstract Manager is open now, please click here, or the button below.

After reviewing the submissions, the Symposium Organising Committee will invite contributors to make either an oral or poster presentation, or advise them of the unsuitability of their submission.  If invited to speak at the Symposium, authors will also be asked to commit to providing a paper to be published in a special edition of Dairy Science and Technology.  In order to meet this journal's refereeing and publishing deadlines, full papers must be submitted to the Symposium Organising Committee by 31 December 2008.
 
Please note that papers will only be accepted from presenters registered to attend the Symposium by 1 February 2009.

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