Ana Sara Queiroz

- Development of new ingredients: pilot plant trials, formulation of new recipes, reporting and approval, suppliers' visit - Implementation support of: nutritional guidelines from FEDIAF, new vit & min premixes - Cost & savings optimization and benchmarking - Product reviews dry & wet: guiding standards, quality assessment, reference product - Support to the factories and markets - Internal and external presentations: multinational exhibitions and workshops - Mission at Nestlé factory in Bük (Hungary)

Improving analytic methods for Listeria spp. monitoring in food industry; experimental protocols, laboratory work in Biosafety level II (BSLII): bacterial culture and inoculation of matrices – including enumeration and detection; VIDAS detection, stress application and assessment, validation studies, internal and external presentations, lab journals, reports.

Effect of competitive flora on Listeria monocytogenes maximum concentration in soft unripened cheeses; scientific proposals, experimental protocols, laboratory work in BSLI and BSLII: media preparation, inoculation studies/challenge tests, competition of strains – including enumeration, biochemical identification, lab journals, reports, internal presentations.

Clinical nutrition: obesity, pediatric obesity, sports nutrition, pregnancy nutrition, vegetarian, food intolerances, pre-pregnancy weight management, educational counselling; community nutrition: pediatric workshops development, nutritional screenings with children and adults; projects preparation (pregnancy and delivery preparation courses); development of menus; development of nutritional information, marketing contents and newsletter; customers service attendance.

Food Quality Management, Food Microbiology, Food Law, Food Related Allergies and Intolerances, Advanced Food Microbiology, Food Toxicology, Food Safety Risk Assessment, Food Economics, Food Risk Management.

Research project (A comparison of food habits between Portuguese and Dutch bachelor students)

Internships; clinical Education; optional course (Sport's Nutrition); tutor of summer activities; community screenings and nutritional education; collaboration in a Research project to reduce hypertension; research project on clinical risk assessment tools - Kidney disease