The conference is arranged as a satellite to the 1st European Chemistry Congress. Its main topics are:

• History of agricultural chemistry;
• Veterinary aspects of food chemistry in historical perspective;
• History of the chemistry of food and nutrition;
• History of analytical chemistry, especially as related to the control of fertilizers, food stuffs, drinking water and mineral waters, and to the role played by chemical analysis in agriculture and the food industries;
• History of environmental chemistry as related to food production and consumption.
  

The meeting will take place in conjunction with the "Workshop on Applications of Novel Technologies in Food and Biotechnology", organised jointly by EFFoST and the Nonthermal Processing Division of IFT. (Cork, Ireland,11 till 13 September 2006).

The GHI meeting will be held on the University College Cork Campus, on Sunday, 10 September 2006 from 4:30 - 6:30 PM conveniently ending shortly before the Welcome Reception of the workshop that will be held in the historic Staff Common Room at the same site, starting at 7:00 PM.

You are kindly invited to join the Inaugural Board Meeting. If you intend to participate, please send an e-mail.

This World Congress of Food Science and Technology is the most significant event in food science and technology since the XIIth Congress in Chicago in July 2003 - and it is the first World Congress in Europe in 10 years.

It is important and of relevance to EVERYONE in the food science and technology field - i.e. Legislators, educators, policy advisors, researchers, research and development officials, food industries, food ingredients suppliers, food equipment suppliers, food scientists, food technologists and food engineers.