F&HN Brief – February
2006
Forthcoming Events
Allergy Cluster meeting on Thursday 6th April at Marks
& Spencer's new offices located at Waterside
House, Paddington. Presentation by Dr Judith Cornelisse,
Wageningen University, “Communication issues in Food Allergy
Management. It is more than just labelling!”.
The 2006 Calendar of Events for F&HN is available on
the events
section of the website, where you will also find an Event
Registration Form. Completed forms should be Faxed back
to Lesley Swift
in order to reserve a place for each event you wish
to attend.
Membership News
As you are aware, the fee for membership of
additional Clusters has been replaced by a Meeting Attendance
Fee of £50 (+VAT)/delegate. All members are eligible
to attend any cluster event. We believe this better reflects
the needs of the members who are increasingly looking to
attend specific meetings rather than all meetings of one
specific Cluster.
Non F&HN Members may attend Cluster Meetings, this cost
will continue to be £250 (+VAT).
Open
Days & BA Festival of Science
Norwich Research Park, September 2006
The Festival programme (2-9 September) is available from
the end of March www.the-ba.net
Open Days (7-9 September) information is available from the
end of March www.ifr.ac.uk/events
Three BA Festival programmes are planned - the main programme
and the young people’s programme, hosted on Norwich Research
Park, and the city programme at venues across Norwich and
the surrounding areas. IFR is contributing to numerous activities,
including an exhibition on the art and science of food decay
being developed with the Norwich School of Art & Design
for a city gallery, funded by a BBSRC public engagement award.
You can combine a visit to the BA Festival with a tour of
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Key note speaker confirmed
Bob Marsh, Managing Director of the Food Processing Faraday
Partnership Ltd will give a presentation during IFR's Open
day events on Thursday 7th September.
The Institute plans three Open Days - the first, on Thursday
7 September is primarily for our academic, business and media
stakeholders. On Friday 8 there will be a number of student
workshops, followed on Saturday 9 when our doors will be open
for anyone who wants to visit. The theme for IFR Open Days
is "Choosing, Eating, Living", representing IFR
as a vital link in the food chain. The concept is that all
IFR's research falls into the following categories:
- Choosing
- what influences our food choice, and how industry can
provide us with safe nutritious food we want to eat
- Eating -
the digestion journey - gastrointestinal responses to what
we eat
- Living -
beyond the gut wall - how food components impact on our
long term health
Making
the News
Traffic Light Labelling Rejected
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has rejected traffic
light labelling as ‘simplistic and potentially misleading
to consumers’ in its response to the Food Standards Agency’s
(FSA) signposting consultation. FDF set out the industry’s
views in a detailed paper to the FSA consultation.
More can be found at http://www.foodeast.com/news/newsarchive/news3193.asp
Associate Parliamentary Food &
Health Forum
Minutes
of the FHF Meeting on nutrient profiling held at the House
of Commons on 7th February 2006. Presentations by Rosemary
Hignett, Head of the Food Standards Agency's Nutrition Division
- Nutrient
profiling and Peter Scarborough, Researcher with the British
Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, University
of Oxford - Validation
of nutrient profile models.
Selected IFR Keynote Lectures
International-quality scientific lectures accessible to research
students and non-specialists including presentations by Prof.
Ben Mepham, Centre for Bioethics, University of Nottingham,
Dr Marie-Laure Frelut, Paris V University and Michelle Corrado,
MORI. Can be found at http://www.ifr.ac.uk/science/lectures/default.html
Science + Innovation
This new quarterly publication from IFR
provides an overview of our leading science stories, knowledge
transfer and innovation activities and replaces IFR News.
Science + Innovation issues available online, at: http://www.ifr.ac.uk/publications/.
To receive regular print or electronic copy, contact Dawn
Barrett
Next issue May 2006
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