INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ON CONTROLLED ATMOSPHERE AND FUMIGATION IN STORED PRODUCTS

About the Conferences: The first Conference was an international symposium on controlled atmosphere grain storage, held in Rome, Italy in 1980, and the second one, which included fumigation, was held in Perth, Western Australia in 1983. This second symposium was given the title "International Symposium on Controlled Atmospheres and Fumigation" (CAF). During this symposium, members of the steering committee formed a Permanent International Committee on Controlled Atmospheres. This was followed by Conferences in Singapore (1989), and Winnipeg Canada (1992). Since 1992 the Conferences have been held at 4 year intervals, the most recent Conference having been held in Brisbane, Australia in 2004. The upcoming Conference is due to be held in Chengdu, China in 2008.

This web site has been set-up in order to provide information about the achievements of previous Conferences. To do this we have provided the "Table of Contents" of each Conference and where possible, we are providing free access to abstracts or full conference papers by enabling downloading of PDF files for reading in Adobe Acrobat reader.

Our second objective is to inform potential participants of future conferences, with links to sites of the upcoming conference hosts.

So here it is: CAF2008 - Controlled Atmosphere and Fumigation - Green, Safe, Harmony and Development. Chengdu, China.

CAF PERMANENT COMMITTEE

Jonathan Banks, Australia, Chairman Shlomo Navarro Israel, Secretary
Somiah Rajendran, India Chris Bell, United Kingdom
Mevlut Emekci, Turkey Patrick Ducom, France
Tom Phillips, USA Digvir Jayas, Canada
Jim Leesch, U.S.A. Ron Noyes, U.S.A.
Yonglin Ren, Australia Christoph Reichmuth, Germany
Mulyo Sidik, Indonesia Barry Bridgeman, Australia
Jordi Riudavets, Spain

Make a date for two thousand and eight! See you there!!