26.09.2025
Session 3 – Advances for Emerging Contaminants Determination
Chairs: Isabelle Oswald and Andrea Gianotti
9.00h – 9.30h
L4
“How in vitro gut models can support gut microbiome human and animal health research? The INFOGUT project.”
Andrea Gianotti, University of Bologna, Italy
9.30h – 9.45h
OC8
Understanding brown spot disease in “Rocha” pear: fungal prevalence, resistance, and mycotoxin and phytotoxin production
Sónia Silva, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
9.45h – 10.00h
OC9
Circular Packaging Solutions: Assessing Food-Contact Safety of Recycled-Layer Multilayer Systems
Catarina Freire, MARE, IPL, Portugal
10.00h – 10.15h
OC10
Predicting endemic marine toxins in shellfish and identifying emerging threats in Portuguese waters Pedro Reis
Pedro Reis, IPMA, Portugal
10.15h – 10.30h
Q&A
10.30h – 11.00h
COFFEE BREAK & POSTER VIEWING AND NETWORKING
11.00h – 12.15h
RT
“Analytical techniques and risk communication strategies”
Isabel Oswald, Researcher Director, French National Research Institut for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), France
Pedro Nabais, Head of the Food Risk Division, Portuguese Authority for Food and Economic Security (ASAE), Portugal
Pedro Reis, Researcher, Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA), Portugal
Rita Câmara, Medical Doctor, Doctor Nélio Mendonça Hospital, RAM EPERAM Health Service, Madeira, Portugal
12.15h – 13.30h
LUNCH & POSTER VIEWING AND NETWORKING
Session 4 – Toxicity Spectrum of Food Contaminants
Chairs: Rosa Gouveia and Paula Alvito
13.30h – 14.00h
L5
“Deoxynivalenol : new effect of an old toxin”
Isabelle Oswald, INRAE, France
14.00h – 14.15h
OC11
“Microplastics-gut microbiota interactions in an in vitro model of the toddler colon”
Stephanie Blanquet-Diot, Université Clermont Auvergne, France
14.15h – 14.30h
OC12
A Roadmap for Investigating the Neurotoxicity of Food Chemical Contaminants: Cellular and Barrier-Level Effects Along the Gut–Brain Axis
Miguel Faria, LAQV/REQUIMTE, FFUP, Portugal
14.30h – 14.45h
OC13
Influence of short-term iron and copper exposure on cadmium and lead accumulation in Ulva spp.
Cláudia lopes, MARE, IPL, Portugal
14.45h – 15.00h
OC14
Brain on plastics: How surface-modified nanoplastics disrupt human neuronal cells
Ana Araújo, LAQV/REQUIMTE, FFUP, Portugal
15.00h – 15.15h
Q&A
15.15h – 15.45h
COFFEE BREAK & POSTER VIEWING AND NETWORKING
15.45h – 16.00h
Best Poster Award
(Associação Portuguesa de Nutrição and Sovena)
16.00h – 16.30h
Remarks and Future Directions
16.30h – 17.00h
Closing ICFC2025
Fernando de Almeida, Chairman of the Executive Board, National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA), Portugal, Honorary President ICFC conferences
Alexandra Bento, Head of the Food and Nutrition Department, National Institute of Health Doctor Ricardo Jorge (INSA), Portugal