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The Weurman Flavour Research Symposium, one of the most renowned international meetings on flavour science, takes place every 3 years in Europe. Participants from academia and industry from all five continents meet to discuss advances and trends in flavour science in an informal and open atmosphere. In July 2008, the 12th Weurman Flavour Research Symposium was organized in Interlaken, Switzerland.

About 230 participants from 34 countries contributed with 177 lectures and posters to the wealth of flavour-related knowledge. The contributions were grouped in 8 sessions, i.e. biology, retention & release, psychophysics, quality, thermal generation, bioflavors, impact molecules, and analytics. Emerging topics were discussed in 3 workshops dealing with flavour and health, in-vivo flavour research, and flavour metabolomics.

Special issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Highlights of the 12th Weurman symposium were published in a special issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry in 2009.

This 12th Weurman Flavour Research Symposium has been the most impressive Expression of Multidisciplinary Flavour Science. It has offered an excellent forum for passionate exchange on traditional as well as emerging fields of flavour science. We believe that these proceedings will fructify and propel the development of flavour science and become an important reference to the field.