Food Toxicology and Food Safety: Report of the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Foods: Food, Microbiome, and Health-A Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of Foods' Impact on Our Wellbeing

Dirk W Lachenmeier; Paula A Oliveira; Agata Urszula Fabiszewska; Cristina Maria Dias Soares; Jong H Kim

doi:10.3390/foods11244099

Food Toxicology and Food Safety: Report of the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Foods: Food, Microbiome, and Health-A Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of Foods' Impact on Our Wellbeing

Foods. 2022 Dec 19;11(24):4099. doi: 10.3390/foods11244099.

Authors

Dirk W Lachenmeier¹, Paula A Oliveira^{2

3

4}, Agata Urszula Fabiszewska⁵, Cristina Maria Dias Soares⁶, Jong H Kim⁷

Affiliations

¹ Chemisches und Veterinäruntersuchungsamt (CVUA) Karlsruhe, Weissenburger Strasse 3, 76187 Karlsruhe, Germany.
² Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal.
³ Clinical Academic Center of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal.
⁴ Inov4Agro, Center for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB), University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal.
⁵ Institute of Food Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 159c Nowoursynowska St., 02-776 Warsaw, Poland.
⁶ REQUIMTE/LAQV, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal.
⁷ Foodborne Toxin Detection and Prevention Research Unit, Western Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, 800 Buchanan St., Albany, CA 94710, USA.

Abstract

The purpose of the conference session summarized in this article was to bring together international experts on food toxicology and food safety and share the current scientific knowledge on these topics. The presentations covered a wide range of interdisciplinary issues, including (i) the impact of diet on body weight and health outcomes including results from animal models of carcinogenesis, (ii) methods for microbial oil extraction, (iii) food processing and its impact on food safety and health, (iv) novel compounds to avoid mycotoxin contamination of agricultural products, and (v) the safety of cannabidiol in food supplements based on Cannabis sativa extracts. Some of the conclusions of the presentations included that correct food choices may impact on the risk of non-communicable diseases such as cancer, that food processing may have an influence on health, by either reducing or increasing risks, and that research regarding novel compounds is important, which may have preventive but also detrimental effects on health.

Keywords: Yarrowia lipolytica; benzaldehyde; cannabidiol; drug repurposing; food safety; food toxicology; mammary carcinogenesis; microbial oil; novel food.

Publication types

Congress

Grants and funding

The work of P.A.O. was supported by FCT, under the project UIDB/04033/2020 and the Ph.D. grant 2020.07999.BD. The study of A.U.F. was financially supported by sources from the Ministry of Education and Science within funds from the Institute of Food Sciences of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (WULS), for scientific research. The research of J.H.K. was carried out under USDA-ARS CRIS Project 2030-42000-054-000-D. The work of C.S. was supported by projects REQUIMTE/LAQV—UIDB/50006/2020, UIDP/50006/2020, and LA/P/0008/2020 financed by FCT/Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior (MCTES), through national funds, and the project SYSTEMIC, “An integrated approach to the challenge of sustainable food systems: adaptive and mitigatory strategies to address climate change and malnutrition”. The Knowledge hub on Nutrition and Food Security received funding from national research funding parties in Belgium (FWO), France (INRA), Germany (BLE), Italy (MIPAAF), Latvia (IZM), Norway (RCN), Portugal (FCT), and Spain (AEI) in a joint action of JPI HDHL, JPI-OCEANS, and FACCE-JPI launched in 2019 under the ERA-NET ERA-HDHL (n° 696295).