Workshop:

Date: 3 September 2007

FOOD FACTS every food professional should know!

09:00 - 09.10 Workshop Opening, Welcome & Announcements
Session Chair: David Watson
SAAFoST President
09.10 - 09.50 "What's The Panic": Dispelling The Myths About Diet And Disease Prof Vincent Marks
Co-author: "Panic Nation" Former Prof of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Surrey, UK.
09:50 - 10:30 Working the Media - make it your story Tony Hines
Leatherhead Food International
10:30 -11:00 TEA (Sponsored by Nampak R&D)
Session Chair: Brenda Neall Journalist
11:00 - 11:30 Adverse reactions to food: Perceptions, myths and facts Dr Harris Steinmann, FACTS
11:30 - 12:00 Making Healthier Choices Easy: An international, science-based benchmark for front-of-pack labelling Christelle De-Witt, Unilever
12:00 - 12:30 Is Food Packaging Safe? Francis Hannay, NAMPAK R&D
12:30 - 13:00 Labelling Legislation - why and how Prof Peter Aggett
Head of School
Lancashire School of Health and Postgraduate Medicine. Univ. of Central Lancashire, UK.
13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH (Sponsored by Cadbury)
Session Chair: Lauren Wilson SASA
14:00 - 14:30 The Evidence Versus The Marketing Mix Jane Badham
JB Consultancy
14:30 - 15:00 Sugar; Why all the Fuss? Prof Vincent Marks
Co-author: "Panic Nation" Former Prof of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Surrey, UK.
15:00 - 15:30 TEA (Sponsored by Clover)
Session Chair: Nigel Sunley SAAFoST Immediate Past President (2003 - 2005)
15:30 - 16:30 Panel Discussion and Questions to the Team of Experts All Speakers
16.30 Closure

 
 
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