As of April 5, 2012, you will be able to do maintenance/consult in your submitted abstract, excepting if the abstract is already in the status IN EVALUTION.
According to the Scientific Committee rules, we cannot make any updates in the submitted abstracts.

GUIDELINES FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Welcome to the online abstract submission process!

Please do not try to submit the same abstract more than once. If the system detects a duplicate submission, the duplicate will be rejected.

Presenting Authors must register for the Congress by April 10, 2012. Failure to register by this date will result in the abstract not being included in the Congress sessions or printed in the Abstract section of the Final Program Book.

The deadline for the evaluation of the Scientific Committee will be May 30, 2012.

The deadline for the registration payment of authors who will present abstracts in the event will be June 30, 2012.

Abstracts for oral and poster presentations are being solicited to address the following topics:

• Food Processing
• Food Analysis
• Food Chemistry
• Food Biochemistry
• Food Biotechnology
• Food Microbiology
• Food Engineering
• Food Safety
• Food Security
• Sensory and Consumer Science
• Bioactive Compounds and Functional Foods
• Food and Nutrition
• Food Packaging
• Nanotechnology

Guidelines
• Choose the topic in the list in which your submission is most appropriate.
• Submit 250-word or less abstract, Arial, 10 font, single spacing, justified, prepared in English in PDF Format (Portable Document Format).
• Underline the name of the presenting author.
• No tables or figures may be included.
• Your abstract should contain the following: introduction and objectives, methodology, results and discussion, conclusions.
• Do not include references unless it is imperative.
• Indicate preference for oral or poster presentation. Authors submitting abstracts for oral presentation are required to indicate on the on-line submission system, whether they are willing to present a poster, should their submission not be accepted for oral presentation.
• The data presented must not be published before the meeting.
• The data presented must be substantive. The authors must not split data from one study into several abstracts with minimal information.
• The abstract must cite quantitative data. Simply stating that the results will be discussed is not acceptable.
• A maximum of two abstracts is permitted per registration.

EXAMPLE OF ABSTRACT FORMAT:

OBTAINING QUERCETIN FROM ACHYROCLINE SATUREIOIDES VIA SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION USING ETHANOL AS MODIFIER

Thais M. Takeuchi, M. Laura Rubano, M. Angela A. Meireles. School of Food Engineering, University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Rua Monteiro Lobato 80, 13083-862 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

Popularly known as ‘macela’, Achyrocline satureioides is a plant widely used by Brazilian folk medicine. Supercritical fluid extraction has several advantages when compared to traditional extraction methods, which frequently cause degradation and loss of target components, and might consume large volumes of environmentally non-friendly solvents. SFE using CO2 can prevent degradation and drastically diminish, or even eliminate, use of polluting solvents, among other advantages. In the case of A. satureioides, the flavonoids (more specifically, quercetin) represent one of the most interesting groups of compounds that can be found in its extracts. However, the low polarity of CO2 demands the addition of a modifier, or a co-solvent, in order to make quercetin obtaining via SFE possible. Kinetic experiments using different concentrations of ethanol as a modifier (5 and 20%) and two different solvent flows were run. A kinetic experiment of conventional low pressure solvent extraction (LPSE) was the basis of comparison between the two extraction methods. The application of a static period increased both the global extraction yield and the quercetin yield from 2.9 to 4.0 % and from 0.16 to 0.40 %, respectively. Results related to the percentage of ethanol added to the supercritical solvent indicated that, although the reduction of the modifier from 20 to 5 % has also caused a significant decrease in the extraction yield, obtaining quercetin was considerably affected. The LPSE method presented the best results. However, the advantages and disadvantages of both methodologies demand deeper analysis in order to determine which one is more suitable.

Review
Abstracts will be sent to the Scientific Committee for review and consideration. The Scientific Committee reserves the right to refuse or decide on the final form of presentation.
 Every effort will be made to meet presentation form requests but due to a limited number of session time slots, the organizers may elect to change oral submissions to poster presentations.

Each submission will be evaluated primarily using the following criteria:
• Scientific merit
• Relevance
• Creativity and originality of content
• Practical application.

Abstract and presentation must not be commercial in nature and authors must refrain from overuse of product trade names and company affiliations unless submitted by an exhibiting company for the special Exhibitor Sessions.