Functional foods - Designer foods for the future
30 September 1997 - 30 September 1997
Ireland
An international conference on "Functional foods- Designer foods for the future" will be held in Cork, Ireland, from 30 September to 2 October 1997. The conference is being organised by Teagasc - Dairy Products Research Centre (Ireland) and the Department of Food Science of the North Carolina State University (USA), under the auspices of the US/Ireland Cooperation Programme in Agricultural Science and Technology.
Foods claimed to have a positive effect on health (functional foods) are already on the market. Research into food ingredients with health related attributes is ongoing worldwide, in parallel with consumers increasing concern over health and food safety. This conference will address scientific, regulatory and marketing aspects of the nutrition/health relationship and will consider their application to a wide range of foodstuffs formulated and designed to provide specific health benefits.
The scientific programme will consist of an international panel of expert speakers on the following topics:
- Legal and marketing strategies;
- Biopeptides, functional proteins, protein hydrolysates;
- Food fortification strategies, speciality foods;
- Probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics.
In conjunction with this conference, an EU workshop on "Novel Methods for Probiotic Research" will be held on 3 October 1997. The workshop is being organized by VTT, Biotechnology and Food Research (Finland), University College, Cork (Ireland) and the European Commission (DG XII/E-2 and DG XII/E-3), within the framework of the Community's specific RTD programme in the field of Agriculture and Fisheries (FAIR).
It is the second in a series of four workshops for the FAIR demonstration project "Demonstration of the Nutritional Functionality of Probiotic Foods" (FAIR CT86-1028). The aim is to substantiate the real value of probiotic products to the EU markets and to the EU consumers by providing a sound basis for assessing the functionality of novel probiotic foods, and to enable the industry to demonstrate the health claims for probiotic products with regard to management of intestinal disorders and immune enhancement.
For further information of the "Functional Foods" international conference, please contact:
Teagasc -Dairy Products Research Centre
Dr. Catherine Stanton
Moorepark
Fermoy, Co. Cork
Ireland
Tel. +353-25-31422; Fax +353-25-32563
E-mail: cstanton@dpc.teagasc.ie
or
Southeast Dairy Foods Research Centre
Prof. Todd R. Klaenhammer
Department of Food Science
Box 7624
North Carolina State University
Raleigh NC 27695-7624
USA
Tel. +1-919-5152971; Fax +1-919-5157124
E-mail: Klaenhammer@ncsu.edu
For further information and registration form for the EU satellite workshop, please contact:
VTT Biotechnology and Food Research
Minna Alander/Tiina Kauppila
PO Box 1500
SF-02044 VTT
Tel. +358-9-4565208/4565823; Fax +358-9-4552028
E-mail: minna.alander@vtt.fi
Foods claimed to have a positive effect on health (functional foods) are already on the market. Research into food ingredients with health related attributes is ongoing worldwide, in parallel with consumers increasing concern over health and food safety. This conference will address scientific, regulatory and marketing aspects of the nutrition/health relationship and will consider their application to a wide range of foodstuffs formulated and designed to provide specific health benefits.
The scientific programme will consist of an international panel of expert speakers on the following topics:
- Legal and marketing strategies;
- Biopeptides, functional proteins, protein hydrolysates;
- Food fortification strategies, speciality foods;
- Probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics.
In conjunction with this conference, an EU workshop on "Novel Methods for Probiotic Research" will be held on 3 October 1997. The workshop is being organized by VTT, Biotechnology and Food Research (Finland), University College, Cork (Ireland) and the European Commission (DG XII/E-2 and DG XII/E-3), within the framework of the Community's specific RTD programme in the field of Agriculture and Fisheries (FAIR).
It is the second in a series of four workshops for the FAIR demonstration project "Demonstration of the Nutritional Functionality of Probiotic Foods" (FAIR CT86-1028). The aim is to substantiate the real value of probiotic products to the EU markets and to the EU consumers by providing a sound basis for assessing the functionality of novel probiotic foods, and to enable the industry to demonstrate the health claims for probiotic products with regard to management of intestinal disorders and immune enhancement.
For further information of the "Functional Foods" international conference, please contact:
Teagasc -Dairy Products Research Centre
Dr. Catherine Stanton
Moorepark
Fermoy, Co. Cork
Ireland
Tel. +353-25-31422; Fax +353-25-32563
E-mail: cstanton@dpc.teagasc.ie
or
Southeast Dairy Foods Research Centre
Prof. Todd R. Klaenhammer
Department of Food Science
Box 7624
North Carolina State University
Raleigh NC 27695-7624
USA
Tel. +1-919-5152971; Fax +1-919-5157124
E-mail: Klaenhammer@ncsu.edu
For further information and registration form for the EU satellite workshop, please contact:
VTT Biotechnology and Food Research
Minna Alander/Tiina Kauppila
PO Box 1500
SF-02044 VTT
Tel. +358-9-4565208/4565823; Fax +358-9-4552028
E-mail: minna.alander@vtt.fi