6th Edition of Euro-Global Conference on Food Science and Technology | FAT 2024 | Hybrid Event
Dear congress participants, it is an honour and a pleasure to welcome you with some notes for the 6th Edition of Euro-Global Conference on Food Science and Technology (FAT-2024)” which is being organized from September 16-18, 2024 at Rome, Italy . Current developments in science and technology, in all their various shades of investigation, applied to the food sector outline a new and interesting vision of man, of his essence, of the satisfaction of his primary needs and of his being a citizen of the world from a modern point of view. Food is history, religion, belonging, communication and it is precisely in this perspective that the focus of the conference "Food: focusing on exceptional discoveries in Food Science and Technology" is oriented. However, while advances in productivity and technology have significantly improved the use of natural resources and food security, at the same time the latter must face, ever more rapidly, the threats due to climate change, the escalation of natural disasters that continuously change our lands, and the proliferation of parasites. Moreover, food has now become too refined due to cultivation methods and commercial choices for its production and consequently the man is no longer seen as a human being but as a stomach to be filled. This opens up new opportunities to adapt modern breeds to changes in order to achieve greater productivity and introduce intelligent and differentiated methods to adapt food and its primary intentional concept of "nutrition", intended both as physical nourishment and above all as spiritual one, to man in the most functional way possible. It is not a coincidence that the food industry, as a hub of research and development, holds the key to addressing these comparisons where the integration of all sectors is essential to devise new challenges of competitive solutions so as to improve the industry. Being "human" is an exhausting effort and it is fundamental for the success of this way of being. It is necessary to set the goal of promoting a metamorphosis of thought, a physiological transformation that is also a true change of attitudes through the construction of paths aimed at promoting the food process, as the most suitable place for growth for all the actors involved. The narrative and functional vision based on the individual and the interpretation of his needs will be the future basis for success. “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” (Socrates). If man survives, everything will depend on how and how much he will have learned to learn, to communicate but, above all, to know how to eat!