In the spring was the book Magnetic Resonance in Food Science, Challenges in a Changing World published following a successful conference that Matís held at the Nordic House on 15-17. September 2008 on the application of Magnetic Resonance technology in food production and food research.
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The book is edited by María Guðjósdóttir, project manager and doctoral student at Matís, together with Professor Peter Belton at the University of East Anglia and Graham Webb from the Royal Society of Chemistry. The book is published by the Royal Society of Chemistry in the United Kingdom. The conference was attended by 80 participants from all over the world and presented their research results. Of these, 32 projects were presented in lectures and 32 as posters. The book that has now been published consists of 29 articles by these scientists and the articles are divided into four chapters; New Techniques; Food Systems and Processing; ESR and other Techniques; Fish and Meat. For those interested, the book can be obtained from Matís by sending an e-mail to María Guðjónsdóttir (mariag@matis.is) or order by phone 422 5091.
The conference was the ninth in a row International Conference on the Applications of Magnetic Resonance in Food Science, but the conferences are held every other year. The next conference will be held in the autumn of 2010 in Clermont, France, under the auspices of the L'Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in France.