Health promoting effects of Fermented Foods was the highlight at 2nd Forum on Fermented Foods in Malaga

Published: Feb 7, 2025 by FME Lab

#DominoEU researchers participated significantly to this amazing conference organised by the COST Pimento. Paul Cotter, Orla O’Sullivan, Jekaterina Kansatseva, Bastien Renard, Isabelle Savary-Auzeloux, Luca Cocolin, Kelly Rantsiou and Tanja Kostic gave talks.

FME team was also very active in this conference, Stéphane gave a brief overview of DOMINO WP2 work on the health assessment of a long-term diet with milk kefir. He was also the chairman of a round table where researchers from EU projects of the Microbes4SustainableFood (M4SF) cluster were giving their opinion on questions from the audience of ~170 attendees.

Marie also presented the update of PIMENTO WG4 - Federating scientists and Fermented Food producers to boost innovation for society.

A special thanks to COST Pimento organisation committee and to Carmen María González Domenech from the University of Medicine for hosting the conference in Malaga.

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