Flour-Bread ’19 Congress

The 10th International Congress “Flour-Bread ’19” and the 12th Croatian Congress of Cereal Technologists “Brašno-Kruh ’19.” was held from 11 to 14 June in Hotel Osijek, Osijek, Croatia organized by the Faculty of Food Technology Osijek. This year the Congress celebrated its 10th international jubilee gathering a total of 250 of scientists and professionals from 15 different countries. The scientific programme of the Congress included plenary and invited lectures, oral and poster presentations with sponsors and exhibitors from companies and associations relevant for food industry and laboratory equipment.

The ByProExtract Principal Investigator Stela Jokić, Full Professor, was a member of the Scientific Committee, while the members of the ByProExtract team have also participated in scientific poster section with a poster entitled: “An Image Processing Approach for Color-Based Sorting and Counting of Selected Cereals“ (authors: Silvija Šafranko, Ana-Marija Cikoš, Marija Banožić, Anamarija Stanković, Stela Jokić), and the poster was awarded for the Best Poster Presentation during Closing Ceremony of the Congress. The honourable guests of the Congress (Hamit Köksel – International Accociation for Cereal Science and Technology“, professors from „Wrocław University of Economics“, „Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences“, University of Szeged, „Kharkiv State University of Food and Trade“, „Lithuanian University of Health Sciences “ and „Bastak instruments“) have visited our Faculty and had opportunity to learn more about our projects, as well how our Faculty is equipped. They have also visited laboratories with equipment provided from ByProExtract project funding (HRZZ – Croatian Science Foundation).