Good food, good life – that is what we stand for. Every day we touch billions of lives. We want to help shape a better and healthier world for individuals and families, for our communities and for the planet. 

At Nestlé, we constantly explore and push the boundaries of what is possible with foods, beverages, and nutritional health solutions to enhance quality of life and contribute to a healthier future. 

We use our scientific expertise and unmatched capabilities to deliver on trend innovations. They’re the result of quick ideation to meet consumer trends, then rapid product development and shop tests. We fast-track funding for promising ideas, work with external partners and incubate innovation through our R&D Accelerator platform. This brings together Nestlé scientists, students and startups to advance science and technology with the objective of accelerating the development of trend-based products and systems.

We believe in the power of food to enhance lives. Good food nourishes and delights the senses. It helps children grow healthy, pets thrive, parents age gracefully and everyone live life to the fullest. Good food brings us together.

Cargill’s 160,000 employees across 70 countries work relentlessly to achieve their purpose of nourishing the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.  Every day, Cargill connects farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive. Cargill is proud to work together with EFFoST to support and encourage the next generation of food scientists.

As the National Tourism Development Authority, Fáilte Ireland’s role is to support the long-term sustainable growth in the economic, social, cultural and environmental contribution of tourism to Ireland.

Fáilte Ireland works in partnership with Government, State agencies, Local Authorities, representative groups and industry, to develop tourism across Ireland by creating destination development plans and networks, investing in infrastructure, activities, visitor attractions and festivals. Fáilte Ireland also provides consumer and buyer insights, mentoring, business support and training programmes and buyer platforms to help tourism businesses innovate and grow.

The 36th EFFoST International Conference is supported by Fáilte Ireland.

The GNT Group is a family-owned company pioneering in the creation of specialized, future-proof products from only natural ingredients. It is internationally renowned for its EXBERRY® portfolio, the leading global brand in Coloring Foods. Founded in 1978, the company offers unparalleled agricultural competence and process-engineering expertise in delivering solutions for fruit, vegetables and edible plants.  GNT is headquartered in the Netherlands and has a global reach with customers in 75 countries and offices all over the world.

De Gruyter was an early champion of open access and an advocate of opening content to all researchers. We published our first open access book in 2010 and launched our first fully gold open access journal in 2013. Today De Gruyter’s open access portfolio comprises more than 2,000 open access books and around 90 fully open access journals – published in-house or on behalf of learned societies.

Open Agriculture is an open access journal from De Gruyter’s Open Access portfolio, publishing original articles and reviews reflecting the latest achievements on agriculture and related topics. Its major goal is to spread up-to-date knowledge on Agriculture, along with maintaining the high quality of its published content. The journal accepts submissions of original scientific papers, short communications, review articles and case studies and offers an immediate publication upon completing the publishing process.

Food for Health Ireland is a collaborative model for functional and health food innovation and commercialisation. For more than a decade, we have provided a gateway for our industry partners to access world-class science and academic research through a collaborative, market-focussed functional food research programme. Our research addresses global food trends and challenges, providing results that can be translated into commercially viable products with clear market focus.

Tirlán, formerly known as Glanbia Ireland, is a world-class food and nutrition co-operative, with a diverse portfolio of quality ingredients, and leading consumer and agri brands. The farmer-owned co-operative has a first-class track record of success in the global market. Rooted in a rich heritage of family farming and embedded in its communities, Tirlán has evolved to bring the passion of its farmers and their high-quality milk and grains to the international marketplace. Using modern-day technology and applying the best processes to its milk pool of three billion litres and its premium grains portfolio, Tirlán now exports to more than 80 countries.  The organisation draws on a wealth of experience to deliver exceptional products and tailored nutritional solutions including Avonmore, Kilmeaden, Wexford, Truly Grass Fed, Solmiko, CheddMax and GAIN. Tirlán is committed to sustainability throughout the organisation through its comprehensive Living Proof programme, and the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) contained within it.

Teagasc – the Agriculture and Food Development Authority – is the national body providing integrated research, advisory and training services to the agriculture and food industry and rural communities. The Teagasc Food Research Programme covers a wide range of topics in the agri-food arena. Research, development and innovation initiatives supporting food for health, meat and dairy processing, cereals/bakery and the marine and plant-based food sectors are the core activities within the Food Programme, delivered across its five departments across research centres in Cork and Dublin

Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the global science and health communities, Elsevier’s 7,000 employees in over 70 offices worldwide publish more than 2,000 journals and 1,900 new books per year. In addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such as ScienceDirect, MD Consult, Scopus, bibliographic databases, and online reference works.

For over two decades New Food has been the prominent thought leadership platform for the food and beverage industry. By providing an unrivalled resource for industry professionals to discuss the challenges and wider economic issues that currently face the international food and beverage supply chain, New Food’s overarching aim is to explore solutions and catalyse industry progress.

Through the maintenance of a close collaboration with the industry, regulators and academia in the areas of safety, quality control and scientific innovation, New Food understands the necessity of cooperation and collaboration between all parties to ensure that the global food and beverage community moves forward together. To achieve our goal, New Food provides a bi-monthly print publication, a digital platform that includes regular webinars, as well as a variety of events throughout the year.

With a common goal to advance hygiene, improve food safety, and increase cleaning efficiency and effectiveness during the processing and packaging of food products, EHEDG brings together stakeholders in the food supply chain. Besides practical guidelines, test procedures and certification, training, and education, EHEDG offers an exchange platform for global food professionals to combine collective experience and improve hygienic design. Founded in 1989, EHEDG is a foundation that has led the way in guiding the food industry in hygienic design. The principal goal of EHEDG is the promotion of safe food by improving hygienic engineering and design in all aspects of food manufacturing.
EHEDG – Food safety through hygienic design.