Food Safety: A Priority for the Food Industry. Safety Culture, Innovation, and Collaborative Projects

On 4 June 2026, food industry professionals and stakeholders gathered in Nîmes, France, for a conference dedicated to food safety and its role in supporting the competitiveness and transformation of the food sector. The event featured a…

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The Centre for Biotechnology and Fine Chemistry (CBQF), Universidade Católica Portuguesa, is creating a new Research group, supported by the ERA Chair THRIVE project, focused on Food Structure!

They’re looking for an experienced and highly motivated senior scientist. in the field of Food…

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 You can still participate in the CATALYSE World Food Safety event!

If you can’t make it to Bern on June 8, you can join us online.

The transformation of scientific discoveries into real-world applications requires more than research, it required a bridge to practice.

Agroscope, in collaboration with Swiss Food Research, Swiss Biosafety Network…

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Don’t miss the presentation Targeted Protective Cultures for Cheese at the CATALYSE Event!

Emmanuelle Arias-Roth is a research associate at Agroscope specializing in food microbial systems and dairy safety. She earned her PhD from ETH Zürich, where she investigated control strategies for Listeria contamination on cheese surfaces. Her work fo…

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Our very own catalyser Diana R. Fonseca will present at the WorldFoodSafetyDay event!

Dr. Fonseca is post-doctoral researcher in CATALYSE at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP).

Her expertise areas encompass biotechnology, microbiology, and biomaterials. Due to her love for Science communication, she joined the CATALYSE and is one of the…

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Fabienne Kurt will present at the CATALYSE World Food Safety Day!

Fabienne is CSO and co-founder of CellX Biosolutions AG, an ETH Zurich spin-off pioneering the biological degradation of PFAS, one of the most persistent and toxic chemical classes in modern environments. Her work focuses on the discovery and characterization of bacterial consortia…

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Join the “Co-creating Tomorrow’s Future” roundtable at the CATALYSE World Food Safety Day event!

Bringing together experts from across the food sector, the roundtable will explore current and future challenges in food safety through discussion and exchange of perspectives.

The session will have contributions from Karola Krell, Olivier Robin, Mark Sta…

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We are happy to have Cristina Serra Castelló at the CATALYSE World Food Safety Day event in Switzerland!

Cristina is a researcher from the Food Microbiology group of Wageningen University & Research, with expertise in predictive microbiology and quantitative microbiological risk assessment. Her research focuses on understanding and modelling the…

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Introducing our keynote speaker: Raquel C. Medeiros!

Raquel is Head of Food Safety for Chemical Contaminants and Packaging at Nestlé, leading global strategies for chemical risk management from End-to-End. With over 22 years of experience across R&D and Operations, she brings a strong science‑ and risk‑based approach to food safety. She is pass…

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Don’t miss Dr. Verena Looser’s presentation at the CATALYSE World Food Safety Day event!

Dr. Looser is a scientific researcher at Agroscope, Switzerland’s federal center for agricultural research, working in the Food Microbial Systems research division. She holds a Ph.D. in biotechnology and combines expertise in fermentation with practical exper…

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Great news: Online registration is now open for the CATALYSE World Food Safety Day event!

We are looking forward to welcoming everyone to Agroscope in Bern on June 8, but if you can’t make the trip, you don’t have to miss out!

We have officially opened virtual registration so you can stream the entire day live from your screen.

Whether you join us…

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Thomas Roder will be speaking at the CATALYSE World Food Safety Day event!

Thomas Roder is a bioinformatician and the co-founder of Abrinca, a bioinformatics startup dedicated to modernizing microbial genomics.

With a background in biochemistry and a PhD in Computational Biology from the University of Bern, Thomas experienced firsthand the…

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Isabelle Guelinckx will be part of the CATALYSE World Food Safety Day event in Switzerland!

Isabelle is Executive Director at ILSI Europe in Brussels. She holds MSc and PhD degrees in Biomedical Sciences (KU Leuven), a Master in Nutritional Sciences (Maastricht University), and a Bachelor in Dietetics and Nutrition (Catholic College Leuven). Her…

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We are honored to introduce Mrs Awilo Ochieng Pernet as keynote speaker in the upcoming CATALYSE World Food Safety Day event!

Mrs Awilo Ochieng Pernet studied law, human nutrition and international food regulatory affairs. She has been engaged in various activities related to Codex, international food standards, food safety, food quality,…

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Meet Ariane Voyatzakis, a food engineer, holding an MBA in Political Science and Finance. Ariane has 25 years of experience in innovation financing, and in her most recent position, she was responsible for implementing French state funding for innovation and industrialization in the agri-food sector at Bpifrance. 

In 2023, Ariane joined CATALYSE…

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As part of the CATALYSE “Meet the Experts” series, we sat down with Marta Prado, a Distinguished Researcher (Beatriz Galindo Senior Fellow) at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), specializing in food safety and quality.  

Marta’s work connects science, policy, and communication by developing innovative analytical tools for real-…

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We are pleased to share that FIAB will participate in Food 4 Future – Expo FoodTech, taking place in Bilbao from 13–15 May 2026.

During the event, we will be disseminating the CATALYSE project and its activities at our stand, engaging with stakeholders from across the European food innovation ecosy…

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We are pleased to announce that Awilo Ochieng Pernet will be a keynote speaker in the upcoming World Food Safety Day event. As former Chairperson of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (FAO/WHO) and the pioneer of the World Food Safety Day, she will share her expertise on the critical challenges o…

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Coordinated by Marine Huart and Sylvia Laborie Coquerel, the project brought together around twenty contributors (industry stakeholders –

in produ…

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Managing Listeria by cleaning and disinfection: Experiences from food processing industries and from manufacturers of cleaning and disinfection agents

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfp.2026.100793

One of the points he’ll zoom in on is something we often oversimplify in practice: Bacillus cereus is not one uniform organism. Different strains show very different resistance and growth behaviour, which has clear implications for how we thi…

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Food safety challenges are becoming increasingly complex, shaped by climate change, evolving production systems, and the need for faster, more practical solutions across the food chain.

Through the synergy between CATALYSE and the AMBROSIA Project, we are connecting two complementary…

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I am co-author of a new publication:

From perception to behaviour: the role of communication in food safety awareness and hygiene practices over time

in LWT – Food Science and Technology 245, 119216: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lwt.2026.119216

Perception: Unhealthy diet is the top perceived food risk for both consumers…

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I am co-author of a new publication:

Impact of acid and alkaline hydrolyses used in gelatin production on the inactivation variability of aerobic and anaerobic bacterial spores

in the International Journal of Food Microbiology 453, 111698: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2026.111698

Hydrolysis resistance of…

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