Instructions for Submission of Abstracts

• The author responsible for presenting the Abstract must be registered, with payment confirmed by November 20th;
• It will be allowed to submit 02 Abstracts by registration;
• Oral presentation: for in person participation only;
• Presentation of abstract in printed poster format: for in person participation only;
• Presentation of abstract in video format: for online participation only;
• Please do not attempt to submit the same Abstract more than once. If the system detects a duplicate submission, your Abstract will be rejected;
• Indicate preference for Oral or Poster presentation | In Person or Online; (Oral presentations go through a selection process, the Committee will contact you to inform which ones were selected for oral presentation after completing the evaluation of all submitted abstracts. Those that are not selected for oral presentation, the presentation will automatically be changed to poster);
• There is no maximum number of authors per Abstract;
• The Oral presentations will last 10 minutes and Poster section will last 50 minutes, being mandatory the presence of 1 of the authors along the entire section;
• Authors must indicate during submission whether they wish to have their Abstracts published in a Special Edition of a High Impact International Scientific Journal (to be defined by the scientific committee);
• The results should not be published before the event;
• The results must be substantial. Authors should not divide results of a study into several summaries with minimal information;
• Bibliographical reviews will not be ACCEPTED;
• The Summary must cite quantitative data. Abstracts that simply state that the results presented should be discussed later will not be accepted.
• The online poster presentations will be recorded in accordance with the instructions that the committee will inform you shortly.

Abstracts for Oral and Poster presentations must cover one of the following topics and should be correlated with the Congress general approach and tematics:

• Sensory characterization of food, consumer-food relation – (CS);

• Proximate composition, physicochemical analyzes, food analysis, bromatology, quantification of compounds in foods, antioxidant analysis, chromatographic analysis, spectrophotometric analysis, non-destructive methods of food analysis – (CF);

• Food Formulation, New Product Development, Food Processing, Stability, and Shelf Life – (PF);

• Nutrition; functional foods and bioactive compounds; fortified foods; food microbiology – (AS);

• Encapsulation, nanoprocessing, rheology, extraction, modeling, simulation, and optimization of processes, food processing, emerging technology, etc – (ET);

• Fermentation; production and application of enzymes in food; prebiotics, probiotics, pos-biotics; microbial or enzymatic production of products of interest to food; genetically modified foods and microorganisms; biochemical changes post-harvest – (BB); 

• Disruptive foods and future of functional foods – (DF);

• Sustainable exploitation of biodiversity, nature based-solutions, circular economy – (SE).

Formatting Rules

• The abstract should only be submitted in the following language: English;
• Contain Title, Authorship (citation names in order of authorship), Educational Institution, Scientific Text and Funding Body if any;
• 300-word limit for Scientific Text;
• Tables and figures should not be included;
• The Abstract should contain: introduction, objectives, methodology, results, discussion, conclusions;
• Do not include references unless it is necessary.

Revision

Abstracts will be sent to the Scientific Committee for review and consideration. The Scientific Committee reserves the right to refuse or decide on the final presentation format. Every effort will be made to meet the recommended form of presentation, however, due to the limited number of sessions, the organizers may indicate the change from Oral presentation to Poster presentation.

Each submission will be preliminarily evaluated using the following criteria:

• Correlation with the Congress general approach and tematics 
• Scientific merit
• Relevance
• Creativity and original content
• Practical application

Abstracts and presentations should not be of a commercial nature and authors should avoid excessive use of commercial names of products and companies, unless they are presented by an exhibiting company for the Special Exhibitor Sessions.