Event Detail

Food Ingredients Europe is the global meeting place for all stakeholders in the food industry. FI Europe is held once every two years in a major European city and brings together the world's leading food and beverage suppliers, R&D, production and marketing specialists and showcases the most diverse range of new and innovative ingredients and services. 

On Wednesday 18 November 2009 - 15:30 - 17:00, ILSI Europe will organise a scientific session on Food Protection Strategies. The programme of the session is the following:

• The latest risk assessment methodology from ILSI Europe - Dr. Nico van Belzen, Executive Director, ILSI Europe (BE)
  • Effectively planning to minimise product contamination and exposure risks
  • The latest risk assessment methodology to ensure chemical and microbial food safety
• Mitigating the risk of the inadvertent inclusion of allergens - Dr. René Crevel, Science Leader - Allergy, Unilever (UK)
  • Evaluating new ingredients that can pose a serious threat to your allergen list
  • Successfully eliminating hidden allergens from new products
• Getting the balance right: integrated benefit-risk assessment - Dr. Hans Verhagen, Centre for Nutrition & Health, RIVM (NL)
  • Introducing a tiered approach to effective benefit-risk assessments that balances beneficial and adverse effects on public health
  • Successfully translating scientific findings into a safe management decision - benefit-risk assessment to benefit-risk management
    

For more information on the Conference Programme and to register to the session: http://fieurope.ingredientsnetwork.com/conferenceprogramme