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FOOD SAFETY, NUTRITION AND HEALTH:
A TRANSATLANTIC PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCE
APRIL 17-18, 2008
On April 17-18, 2008 the EU Center of Excellence
hosted a food safety conference entitled, ‘Food
Safety, Nutrition and Health: A Transatlantic
Partnership.’ The event was co-sponsored by the
Bush Presidential Library Foundation, the Texas
A&M Mexico Center, and the Colleges of
Agriculture and Life Sciences and Veterinary
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Texas A&M
University.
An audience of over one hundred nutrition, food
safety education, food science faculty,
biological and agricultural engineering
researchers, quality assurance managers, and
community members from food industries attended
this event on the Texas A&M campus in College
Station. The event was also broadcasted by
videoconference through the Texas A&M Mexico
Center in Mexico City, to locations that
included the office of the US Food and Drug
Administration in Washington DC, the Universidad
Tecnológica Equinoccial in Quito, Ecuador; the
FES Cuautitlán, Universidad Autónoma de México,
Estado de México; the Universidad De
Montemorelos, Nuevo León, México; and the
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City.
A distinguished
panel of international and national experts
presented on various topics of relevance to the
European Union and the US alike. Some of these
were the prevalence of Obesity in EU countries
and the US, health policies, and the rising cost
of battling diseases that result from it;
Nutritional Labeling, the different approaches
to food labeling in the EU and the US, the
policies behind it, and consumer preferences;
food safety and quality assurance systems;
infectious diseases that can be transmitted from
animal to human, and verification tools and
technologies used to identify voids in the food
safety production and consumption process.
The event was
moderated by Dr. Wolf-Martin Maier, Counselor,
Food Safety, Health and Consumer Affairs,
Delegation of the European Commission,
Washington, DC. Panelists included Dr. José M.
Gil, Center for Agro-food and Development
Economics, Spain; Dr. Andreas Drichoutis,
Agricultural University of Athens, Greece; Dr.
Chung-Tung Jordan Lin, Food and Drug
Administration, US; Dr. Kristian Moeller,
Managing Director, GLOBALGAP; Dr. Maurizio
Canavari, University of Bologna, Italy; Dr.
Kerri Harris, Texas A&M University; Dr. Marco
Martini, University of Padua, Italy; Dr.
Veronica Cibin, Istituto Zooprofilattico
Sperimentale Delle Venezie, Padova, Italy; and
Dr. Erdal Erol, Texas Veterinary Medical
Diagnostic Laboratory at Texas A&M University.
Dr. Robert Brown, panel respondent from Frito
Lay, discussed the corporate approach.
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