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November 2013: Discussions are underway under the scrutiny procedures of a draft Regulation that would authorise the EU Article 14.1(a) disease risk reduction health claim for "increasing maternal folate status by supplemental folate intake and a reduced risk of neural tube defects". The dossier was submitted by Rank Nutrition at the end of 2012.

SENSE Meeting orgranised for March 2013 by Michele Sadler - Programme Co-ordinator of SENSE:

 

Tuesday 5 March 2013

 

UPDATE ON FOOD COMPOSITION AND NUTRITION LABELLING ISSUES

 

10.00   Coffee and networking opportunity

 

10.30   Welcome

Michele Sadler, SENSE Programme Coordinator

 

10.35   The nutritional content of eggs

Juliet Gray, Consultant, and Andrew Joret, Chairman, British Egg Industry Council

 

11:05   Update on UK Foodcomp project

Susan Church, Consultant

 

11:25   Front of pack nutrition labelling

Andrea Minchausti, British Retail Consortium

 

11.50   Discussion

 

12.00   SENSE BUSINESS MEETING

 

13.00   Lunch and networking opportunity

 

14:00   Nutrition labelling – the food enforcement view

Jane Bull, TSO, Norfolk County Council

 

14:30   EU guidance on tolerances for nutrition labelling

Kate Halliwell, FDF

 

14.50   Discussion, including members experiences of Dietary Analysis Software

 

15:10   Sense business talk – Everything you need to know about contracts

Richard Harvey and Jenny Parker, Harvey Camford LLP, Guildford

 

16:00   Close

SENSE Meeting orgranised for October 2012 by Michele Sadler - Programme Co-ordinator of SENSE:

 

 

Monday 1 October 2012

 

UPDATE ON NUTRITION AND HEALTH CLAIMS

 

 

 

Morning session: chaired by Michele Sadler, SENSE Programme Co-ordinator

 

10:00   Coffee, registration and networking opportunity

 

10:30   Welcome

Michele Sadler, SENSE Programme Co-ordinator

 

10:35   Regulatory update – where are we now?

            Nino Binns, Consultant in Nutrition and Food Regulation

 

11:15   Industry response – nutrition claims vs health claims

            Janice Harland, Harland Hall Associates

 

11:45   Enforcement issues

            Corinne Lowe, Trading Standards Institute

 

12:15   Round table discussion

 

12.30   Lunch and networking opportunity

         

Afternoon session: chaired by Michele Sadler, SENSE Programme Co-ordinator

 

13:30   Consumer understanding of health claims

Stephan Storcksdieck, EUFIC

 

14:00   Consumer understanding of sugar claims

Nicole Patterson, Leatherhead Food Research

 

14:30   Update from AfN - Changes to UK Voluntary Register of Nutritionists

            Leonie Milliner, AfN

 

15:15   SENSE members’ business meeting

 

16:00   Close

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