Today’s food system tells us much about what is achievable commercially and what is sustainable. This conference will provide demonstrations of sustainable food supply across an increasingly complex industrial, health, safety and resource efficiency arena. Food knowledge, science and technology are key interventions we can use to provide sustainable production and consumption.

The subject agenda is broad but our focus will be to  demonstrate innovative solutions that provide sustainable food production and consumption at regional, national and international levels. Speakers will include industrial (New Product Development, energy management), research (health and carbon management) and policy (safety and assurance) experts.

Sustainability is a 'now' issue the food and beverage industry has responded to. This meeting will provide a basis to develop knowledge transfer mechanisms in the new Food System Group within the AAB. It will also provide a forum to develop ideas from the delegates on the ability for the food knowledge, science and technology sectors to deliver sustainability and innovation according to the following three caveats:

3. Delivery of innovative multidisciplinary approaches to product development that provide consumers with high impact health and ethical information.

Papers from the conference will be reproduced in the Aspects of Applied Biology series, which will be available to delegates at the conference.  The Aspects (No. 87),will also include papers from the Traceability - Tracking and Tracing in the Food Chain conference, which will take place at the Central Science Laboratory, York on 15th October 2008.