Urgent Notice
Booking for Qingdao University International Center for Academic Exchanges is full. If reservation fee is not paid in advance, please kindly find a hotel by yourself via ctrip (http://www.ctrip.com) or booking (http://www.booking.com). Thanks for your understanding and cooperation. (June 5th, 2017)

More:
1. The conference program and the table of content for ABS2017 abstract proceedings were updated via http://www.absconf.org/program.html. Any questions, please contact me by June 18th.
2. It will be about 20-29℃ in Qingdao, and maybe it will rain, do prepare yourself for it. (It will get updated again one week before the conference gets started.)
3. The hotel does not offer foreign currency exchange service; please kindly take enough Chinese currency (RMB) with you (it would be better if you exchange currency in your country in advance; or you can find th Bank of China to exchange currency in China)
4. As the arriving time and station are quite different, please kindly help yourself to get to the hotel by referring to the transportation guidelines.
5. The abstract proceeding is just for the participants of ABS2017 for academic exchange during the conference time, and it would not get published openly. The electronic version is not available as well. Hope you could understand.
6. One day tourism will be around Laoshan Mountain, you'd better prepare a pair of comfortable walking shoes.

**Food Science & Technology Survey - ABS2017**
(http://bgumanagement.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eWJ4mL1NlGz5gZ7)
This study aims to access the status of Food Science & Technology and to identify current main professional topics, and to make recommendations (if needed) of possible additional topics to be considered for the future curricula. Prof. Eli Cohen from ABS2017 Session 2: Food Science and Technology conducted a short survey. The outcome of this survey will be presented at the ABS 2017 conference. All responses are completely anonymous.
The expected time to fill the questionnaire is within 10 minutes. We deeply appreciate your time taken to complete it before June 20th.