The EuroFIR Food Forum 2016 Symposium brought together EuroFIR Members and stakeholders, including food compilers, diet and health researchers, SMEs, NGOs, policy-makers and the food industry. The symposium focused on the latest European regulatory actions for food information, nutrition and health claims, and the safety for food allergic individuals as well as the impact these legal frameworks have on individuals and the food industry.
Event Details
Date: Wednesday 6th April 2016 (09.00-13.00)
Location: Penta Hotel, Brussels City Centre (BE)
Speakers
CHAIRS: Paul Finglas (President, EuroFIR AISBL) and Dr Loek Pijls (Founder of Loekintofood GCV & Chief Scientific Officer for Quisper)
Dr Tim Gumbel
Directorate General for Health and Food Safety, European Commission (BE)
Presentation: EU food information rules – recent developments Download presentation
Bio: Dr Tim Gumbel was appointed Deputy Head of Unit for Nutrition, Food composition and information in the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety of the European Commission in April 2015. Previously, he served for four years as Assistant to the Deputy Director General for the Food Chain of the same DG. From 2005-2011, he was a desk officer in different Units of the DG, where he was responsible for the legislative revision of the EU rules on animal by-products not intended for human consumption. He joined the Commission after some years as legal adviser in the German Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Nutrition and Agriculture, after legal studies in Germany and in the UK, completion of his legal professional training and a legal doctorate with a thesis on a topic related to competition law.
Prof. Judy Buttriss PhD, BSc, RNutr, FAfN, Dip Diet
British Nutrition Foundation (UK)
Presentation: Health claims regulation – opportunities and challenges in Europe with examples from the Bacchus project. Download presentation
Bio: Judy is the Director General of the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF). Before this she was the National Dairy Council’s Senior Nutritionist. She is the chair of BBSRC’s DRINC Steering Committee and currently a member of the Food Research Partnership, Defra’s Family Food committee, and a number of PHE’s Reference Groups. She has been the work package leader for dissemination activities in EU FP5, FP6 and FP7 projects, including the BACCHUS project and has written a number of reviews, articles and book chapters, including topics such as health claims, child nutrition, healthy ageing, and sustainable diets. “.
Dr Igor Pravst
Nutrition Institute (SI)
Presentation: The use of nutrition and health claims and symbols on prepacked foods: From consumers exposure to public health implications. Download presentation
Bio: Igor is the leader of the research group on Nutrition and Public Health at the Nutrition Institute (Ljubljana, SI), and works at the University of Ljubljana as an Assistant Professor in Nutrition. He is a Work Package Leader for the FP7 projects: REDICLAIM (Understanding the impact of legislation on “reduction of disease risk” claims on food) and CLYMBOL (Role of health-related claims and symbols in consumer behaviour).
Dr Anita Kušar
Nutrition Institute (SI)
Presentation: The use of nutrition and health claims and symbols on prepacked foods: From consumers exposure to public health implications. Download presentation
Bio: Anita is an expert in quality and labelling of foods and dietary supplements at the Nutrition Institute (Ljubljana, SI). Anita works on FP7 EU projects: REDICLAIM (Understanding the impact of legislation on “reduction of disease risk” claims on food) and CLYMBOL (Role of health-related claims and symbols in consumer behaviour). She is a lecturer in Pharmacognosy at Higher School of Applied Sciences (Ljubljana, SI) .
Dr Sophie Hieke
EUFIC (BE)
Presentation: Measuring the effects of health claims and symbols – the CLYMBOL methodological toolbox. Download presentation
Bio: Sophie is leading consumer research at the European Food Information Council (EUFIC) and is the Principal Coordinator of the EU FP7 funded project CLYMBOL – Role of health claims and symbols in consumer behaviour. Sophie holds a PhD in Statistics and Consumer Research from Ludwig-Maximilians-University (DE). She is an associate editor at Public Health Nutrition and a reviewer for the Journal of Consumer Affairs, Appetite, and the Journal of Marketing & Public Policy. Since 2007, she has been lecturing in Germany, France and the US, and holds research positions at the Center for Marketing & Public Policy Research, Villanova University (US), the Munich Centre of Health Sciences (DE), and the University of Surrey (UK).
Dr Audrey Dunn Galvin
School of Applied Psychology, University College Cork (IE)
Presentation: The impact of ‘labelling’ on the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours of consumers with food allergy : a multilevel perspective. Download presentation
Bio: Dr Dunn Galvin is part of the Department of Paediatrics Food Allergy research group in UCC, which has led the international field in the development of qualitative and quantitative examination of the issues of quality of life for food allergic and coeliac children, adults and parents, and the group has established research links with academic units in the US, Canada, Australia, and Singapore and throughout the EuroPrevall consortium. She has a strong track record in research into food allergy, and celiac disease, long-term condition management, applied health care research and patient-focussed quality of life measurement, developmental trajectories, psycho-educational intervention design, translating research into practice and policy, and statistical predictive modelling (worldwide patent granted for the recent development of a mathematical algorithm), in children, teens, parents, and adults
Katia Merten-Lentz
Keller and Heckman LLP (BE/FR)
Presentation: Impact of new health claims & food labelling regulations on the food industry and future innovation potential. Download presentation
Bio: Katia is a partner at Keller and Heckman LLP specialised in agri-food law at national (French and Belgian) and European level. Katia assists agri-food companies in counselling and litigation of the implementation of EU food regulations. She assists operators from farm to fork as well as being pro-active in food-innovation and often intervenes in the law-making process. Katia has expertise in areas such as health and nutrition claims, novel foods, food waste and food labelling.