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Food Industry Events


The events section of this website promotes a wide range of conferences and events relevant to those working within the food and drink sector.  This is a free service provided by the CIC to promote best practice in the region. 

The external events on this section are correct at the time of going to press but for reasons beyond the Food Chain’s control the content, timing, speakers or venue of the programme may change.  Please check with the company providing the training prior to booking for an up to date agenda.  Contact information is supplied with the details of each event.


Upcoming Events


March

10/03/2010 - Corporate Social Responsibility – Impact on the Bottom Line
10/03/2010 - How to run a business that profits from water efficiency
11/03/2010 - Pesticide controls – understanding the requirements
15/03/2010 - Management of Microbiological Hazards in Foods
15/03/2010 - Global Standards Conference
15/03/2010 - Confidence in Compost
16/03/2010 - Confidence in Compost
16/03/2010 - Back to the Future - National BPEX conference
16/03/2010 - Practical Waste Management
16/03/2010 - Automation & Robotics Round Table Debate
16/03/2010 - Potato Store Management Training Course
17/03/2010 - Wine analysis and tutored faults tasting
17/03/2010 - Focus on Food Security and Food Chain Systems
17/03/2010 - Internal auditing - principles and practices
18/03/2010 - Looking Forward to Sweet Success
18/03/2010 - Packaging, Electrical Goods and Batteries Know Your Responsibilities
18/03/2010 - 2010 Grampian Food Forum Innovation Awards
18/03/2010 - Food Matters
18/03/2010 - Raising The Bar
21/03/2010 - Baking Industry Exhibition 2010
21/03/2010 - Food and Drink Expo 2010
22/03/2010 - Bioreactor Design and Operation - 5th International Advanced Course
22/03/2010 - Food Law Update - Ireland
23/03/2010 - Customer Care Staff Training in Food and Drink
23/03/2010 - Thermal processing – a safe approach
23/03/2010 - Profiting Through Partnership
23/03/2010 - Traceability – understanding the requirements
23/03/2010 - Tackling Obesity 2010 conference
23/03/2010 - BRC Annual Multi-Channel Retailing Conference 2010
24/03/2010 - How to run a business that profits from water efficiency
24/03/2010 - Introduction to Food Science and Technology
24/03/2010 - Feeding better behaviour and learning
24/03/2010 - Crisis Management Team Training
25/03/2010 - Additives and Ingredients in Food and Drink
25/03/2010 - Packaging, Electrical Goods and Batteries Know Your Responsibilities
25/03/2010 - Successful Category Management: Getting Started
25/03/2010 - Food additive legislation seminar
26/03/2010 - Advanced thermal processing – optimisation of product quality of in-pack thermally processed foods
29/03/2010 - Food processing hygiene management
30/03/2010 - Gums and stabilisers – a primer
30/03/2010 - Laboratory quality systems - an introduction
30/03/2010 - Energy & Refrigeration Seminar
31/03/2010 - Analysis of meat and fish products
31/03/2010 - The Essentials of Supplier Auditing

April

03/04/2010 - Edible Biodiversity - Potatoes Galore!
12/04/2010 - Food, Feed, Energy and Fibre from Land - a vision for 2020
13/04/2010 - Practical food law – marketing terms
13/04/2010 - Profit from new ideas ... make innovation work in your business
13/04/2010 - Understanding REAcH Legislation
13/04/2010 - Good Hygiene Practice for the agri-food sector
14/04/2010 - Safe cooking
14/04/2010 - Reformulation Symposium 2010
15/04/2010 - The Science of Low Calorie Sweeteners – separating fact from fiction
15/04/2010 - Cleaning in Food Premises Workshop
20/04/2010 - Sustainabilitylive! 2010
20/04/2010 - Supplier quality assurance
20/04/2010 - World Whiskies Conference 2010
20/04/2010 - Food packaging – an introduction
20/04/2010 - GlobalGap – understanding the requirements
20/04/2010 - A Practical Guide to Soups, Sauces and Dressings
20/04/2010 - Nanotechnology in the Food Industry
20/04/2010 - UK & EC Regulatory Network Meeting
21/04/2010 - Profit from new ideas ... make innovation work in your business
21/04/2010 - Food and Drink Microbiology for Non-microbiologists
22/04/2010 - Data Driven Insights
26/04/2010 - Practical bread technology
27/04/2010 - Agri-environment schemes - what have they achieved and where do we go from here?
27/04/2010 - Gels, Thickeners and Stabilising Agents
27/04/2010 - Ideas and Inspiration in Food and Drink Products
28/04/2010 - Advanced microbiology
28/04/2010 - Chemical aspects of food safety: a practical approach
28/04/2010 - Weight Loss Management & Satiety 2010
28/04/2010 - NutraFormulate
29/04/2010 - Successful Category Management: Introducing Ranging and Merchandising
29/04/2010 - Appetite for Engineering 2010

May

05/05/2010 - Legal Labels in Depth - The Essential Guide to UK Food Labelling
05/05/2010 - Predicting & Controlling the Shelf-Life of Foods
05/05/2010 - Interior Fit-Out
10/05/2010 - Non Food Uses of Crops
10/05/2010 - ‘As Time Goes By….’-how time affects evaluations in Sensory and Consumer Science
11/05/2010 - Food Safety Culture
11/05/2010 - Introduction to Food Contact Legislation
12/05/2010 - How do you feed an Olympic Games?
12/05/2010 - Pathogen Update
12/05/2010 - Microbiology for non microbiologists
12/05/2010 - Introduction to malting
13/05/2010 - Introduction to carbon footprinting
13/05/2010 - Microbiology for Non Microbiologists
13/05/2010 - Profit from new ideas ... make innovation work in your business
13/05/2010 - Modified atmosphere packing – an introduction
13/05/2010 - Introduction to speciality malts
14/05/2010 - The Rise and Rise of Cross-contamination
17/05/2010 - Practical cake technology
17/05/2010 - Summer Course Glycosciences - 11th European Training Course on Carbohydrates
18/05/2010 - Introduction to Food Labelling
18/05/2010 - Innovation Summit
18/05/2010 - BRC Annual Retail Lecture 2010
25/05/2010 - Total Processing and Packaging 2010
25/05/2010 - Soft drinks and juices: new product development
26/05/2010 - Health Claims Masterclass
26/05/2010 - Antimicrobials for food applications
26/05/2010 - Successful Category Management: Getting Started
27/05/2010 - Beef Expo 2010
27/05/2010 - Legal Labels in Depth - The Essential Guide to UK Food Labelling

June

03/06/2010 - Everything European - A Comprehensive Guide to European Food Law
07/06/2010 - Mach 2010
08/06/2010 - Nutrition for Non-nutritionists
09/06/2010 - Recognising beer faults
09/06/2010 - Beer and food matching
09/06/2010 - European Symposium on Food Safety
10/06/2010 - Annual Retail Conference 2010
11/06/2010 - Rapid and alternative microbiology methods
15/06/2010 - Yeast management and brewery hygiene
15/06/2010 - Introduction to Prerequisite Programmes for food safety
15/06/2010 - Allergen control - a practical approach
15/06/2010 - Shelf life evaluation of chilled foods
15/06/2010 - Futuresource 2010 - Europe's sustainability event
15/06/2010 - Internal Auditing
15/06/2010 - Sensory Analysis Techniques - A Practical Introduction
15/06/2010 - Practical Food Law
15/06/2010 - Allergen control - a practical approach
17/06/2010 - Food safety management for produce
17/06/2010 - Food security and science
17/06/2010 - Introduction to calibration
22/06/2010 - Technology of cereals, milling and baking
22/06/2010 - Microbiological safety of UK cheeses
22/06/2010 - Data Driven Insights
23/06/2010 - Managing the Bottom Line
23/06/2010 - Agriculture Outlook Europe 2010
23/06/2010 - Thermal processing – 6th international conference
23/06/2010 - Conducting factory inspections - technical issues
24/06/2010 - Successful Category Management: Introducing Ranging and Merchandising
29/06/2010 - The Marketing Week Trends Show
29/06/2010 - Microbiology methods - how to validate and show suitability for use
29/06/2010 - Food packaging and waste
30/06/2010 - Microwave heating – technical aspects and instruction development

July

01/07/2010 - Food enzyme developments – seminar
01/07/2010 - Rheology & Texture of Food - Explaining the Science
05/07/2010 - 2nd International Food, Society and Public Health Conference
05/07/2010 - International Conference on Food Oral Processing
07/07/2010 - Legal Labels Ireland -The Essential Guide to Irish Food Labelling
13/07/2010 - Cleaning in Food Premises Workshop
13/07/2010 - Legal Labels in Depth - The Essential Guide to UK Food Labelling
13/07/2010 - Food Microbiology - Interpreting Test Results
13/07/2010 - Practical Flour Analysis
14/07/2010 - Beer Appreciation
14/07/2010 - Intermediate microbiology
15/07/2010 - Successful Category Management: Getting Started
19/07/2010 - Principles of canning

August

No events scheduled for this month.

September

01/09/2010 - Introduction to brewing microbiology
06/09/2010 - Practical biscuit technology
07/09/2010 - Food and Drink Microbiology for Non-microbiologists
08/09/2010 - Practical food law - weights and measures
13/09/2010 - Sensory Evaluation Workshop
14/09/2010 - Basic Microbiology
15/09/2010 - A Complete Guide to Product Development - Ideas to Marketplace
15/09/2010 - Wine analysis and tutored faults tasting
16/09/2010 - Traceability – understanding the requirements
21/09/2010 - Introduction to Food Labelling
21/09/2010 - Pesticide controls – understanding the requirements
21/09/2010 - Practical Guide to Gelling and Thickening Agents
22/09/2010 - Cleaning and disinfection - theory and practice
22/09/2010 - Managing the Bottom Line
28/09/2010 - Laboratory quality systems - an introduction

October

05/10/2010 - Principles of baking
05/10/2010 - Introduction to Food Contact Legislation
05/10/2010 - Complaints and Crisis Management
05/10/2010 - Emulsions and Emulsifiers - The Essential Guide to Stable Products
06/10/2010 - Food Styling for Photography
12/10/2010 - Internal Auditing
12/10/2010 - Safe cooking
13/10/2010 - Introduction to Food Science and Technology
14/10/2010 - Legal Labels North America - The Essential Guide to Labelling Products in the USA and Canada
14/10/2010 - Additives and Ingredients in Food and Drink
18/10/2010 - Practical bread technology
19/10/2010 - Oils and Fats - Production, Properties and Uses
19/10/2010 - Food technology for non food technologists
19/10/2010 - Nutrition for Non-nutritionists
19/10/2010 - Practical Waste Management
21/10/2010 - Everything European - A Comprehensive Guide to European Food Law

November

02/11/2010 - Allergen control - a practical approach
02/11/2010 - Practical food law – marketing terms
02/11/2010 - Sugar Confectionery Production
03/11/2010 - Predicting and Controlling the Shelf-Life of Foods
09/11/2010 - Introduction to Flavours and Their Applications
09/11/2010 - Thermal processing – a safe approach
10/11/2010 - 2010 EFFoST Conference
12/11/2010 - Advanced thermal processing – optimisation of product quality of in-pack thermally processed foods
16/11/2010 - Introduction to malting
18/11/2010 - UK & EC Regulatory Network Meeting
23/11/2010 - Food and Drink Microbiology for Non-microbiologists
23/11/2010 - Chocolate Confectionery Production
24/11/2010 - Advanced microbiology
25/11/2010 - Enrobing Products
25/11/2010 - Legal Labels in Depth - The Essential Guide to UK Food Labelling

December

02/12/2010 - Everything European - A Comprehensive Guide to European Food Law
02/12/2010 - Soft Drinks Microbiology
07/12/2010 - Introduction to brewing
08/12/2010 - Principles of canning