Austrian Food Chemistry Days 2026

Austrian Food Chemistry Days 2026

Dear colleagues,
we are pleased to announce the Austrian Food Chemistry Days 2026!
The Austrian Food Chemistry Days provide a platform for food chemists, food analysts, food toxicologists, food technologists, and nutrition scientists from academia, control authorities, and industry to present and discuss cutting-edge research in the field of food chemistry.

The conference will cover all aspects of food chemistry, offering insights into current research activities in the area of food quality, food safety, food authenticity, food toxicology; food ingredients, food additives and food contaminants. Topics will also include biomonitoring and exposure assessment, food allergens, food processing; food contact materials, food flavour and sensory properties; food microbiology and food analysis.

The official language of the meeting will be English in order to encourage the participation of non-German-speaking colleagues, especially PhD students and postdoctoral researchers.

The P.B. Czedik-Eysenberg Award 2026 will be presented during the conference. The awardee will be invited to present their work on this occasion. The call for the P.B. Czedik-Eysenberg Award 2026 is now open:
https://www.goech.at/foerderungen-preise/p.b.-czedik-eysenberg-preis

We cordially invite you to join us – please save the date!
Wednesday, April 8 – Friday, April 10, 2026

Barbara Siegmund
Symposium Chairs

Contact:
Barbara Siegmund, TU Graz
barbara.siegmund@tugraz.at

Venue:

Graz University of Technology, New Campus
Hörsaal Santner (HS H)
Kopernikusgasse 24, Erdgeschoss, 8010 Graz

The venue is easily accessible by public transportation.

Abstract Submission:

Abstracts must be submitted via the conference homepage. Please check the tab "Abstracts" on this event page. Deadline for abstract submission (oral and poster contributions): January 11, 2026

Preliminary Schedule:

The conference will begin on Wednesday early afternoon and conclude on Friday before lunch.

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

13:00 Start of the conference

18:00 Get-Together @ TU Graz

Thursday, April 9, 2026:

9:00 Start of Scientific Program

19:00 Conference Dinner, venue TBA

Friday, April 10, 2026

9:00 Start of Scientific Program

13:00 Conference Closure

Keynote Speaker/Lectures:

• Margit Cichna-Markl, Univ. Vienna & Stefanie Dobrovolny, AGES: Authenticity of Honey
• Thomas Henle, TU Dresden: More than one century of Maillard Reaction – is there anything left to explore?
• Andrea Hochegger, TU Graz: Food Packaging material – Risk Assessment of Recycled Polyolefins
• Doris Marko, Univ. Vienna: Emerging Mycotoxins in Food
• Andrea Hochegger, TU Graz: Food Packaging material – Risk Assessment of Recycled Polyolefins
• Marc Pignitter: Next-Generation Frying Oils: From Optimized Plant Oils to Novel Insect Lipids

Conference Chair:

Barbara SIEGMUND (Graz University of Technology)

Local Organizing Committee:

Barbara Siegmund, Andrea Hochegger, Erich Leitner (Graz University of Technology)

Scientific Committee:

Margit CICHNA-MARKL (UNIVIE)

Karin GROMANN (AGES)

Doris MARKO (UNIVIE)

Stefan PAIREDER (Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection)

Marc PIGNITTER (UNIVIE)

Ebrahim RAZZAZI-FAZELI (VetMed University)

Matthias SCHREINER (BOKU)

Klaus RIEDIGER (AGES)

Barbara SIEGMUND (Graz University of Technology)

Veronika SOMOZA (UNIVIE)

Fritz SÖVEGJARTO (AGES)

Elisabeth VARGA (VetMed University)

Benedikt WARTH (UNIVIE)

Sponsoring:

All information regarding sponsoring opportunities can be found here [click].
We are looking forward to welcome you at our event!