ILSI Europe hosts, sponsors, and co-organises a variety of scientific events. These include independent symposia, workshops, webinars, hands-on scientific trainings and sessions held as part of the program of larger scientific conferences or professional meetings.
Discover below the upcoming events we are organising or participating in.
2022
Practical Guidance on the Application of Food Allergen Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) – Final Webinar 23 June 2022 – 14.00-15.00 CEST
23/06/2022
Webinar, Zoom
Gut-Brain Axis Panel Session – ‘The microbiota–gut–brain axis: pathways to better brain health. Perspectives on what we know, what we need to investigate and how to put knowledge into practice’
25/05/2022
The Hague, Netherlands
Nutritional Strategies to Support Healthy Aging
10/05/2022
Webinar, Zoom
ILSI Europe’s Scientific Session on Food Allergen Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) at IAFP’s European Symposium on Food Safety 2022
04/05/2022 – 06/05/2022
Munich, Germany
Scientific session supported by the Food Allergy Task Force
7th International Symposium on Food Packaging – Scientific Developments Supporting Safety and Innovation
03/05/2022 – 06/05/2022
Digital, Online
The 7th International Symposium on Food Packaging – Scientific Developments Supporting Safety and Innovation was a digital-only event that was held from 3rd to 6th May, 2022. This event was supported by the Packaging Materials Task Force.
- Introduction to the New ILSI Europe Activity on Food Allergen Quantitative Risk Assessment, 29 June 2020
- Protected: Food Allergen Quantitative Risk Assessment - Digital Event, 29 October 2020
- Core Concepts: Food intake, data conversion, carry-over calculation, and prevalence of food allergy, 29 April 2021
- Incidents - characteristics of contamination, 7 May 2021
- Core Concepts: Sampling and analysis, 18 May 2021
- Incidents - communication, 1st June 2021
- Communication across the supply chain, 29 July 2021
- Food Allergen Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) - 2nd Digital Event 22 and 24 June 2021
- Food Allergen Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) - 3rd Digital Event 20 and 23 September 2021
The EG published a peer-reviewed publication (here) and released a practical guidance (Black and White Report) (here).
During the final webinar, we presented the chapters summaries of the Practical Guidance (Black & White Report) including Communication Across Supply Chains, Management of Operations, Management of Incidents and Overarching Core Concepts.
Programme
- Welcome and Introduction
Dr Benjamin Remington, University of Nebraska, US
Dr Michael Walker, Laboratory of the Government Chemist (LGC), UK
- Communication Across Supply Chains
Dr Benjamin Remington, University of Nebraska, US - Management of Operations
Dr Marty Blom, The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), NL
- Management of Incidents
Dr Neil Buck, General Mills, CH - Overarching Core Concepts
Prof. René Crevel, René Crevel Consulting, UK
- Questions & Answers
- Concluding Remarks
Dr Benjamin Remington, University of Nebraska,US
Dr Michael Walker, Laboratory of the Government Chemist (LGC), UK
Participation was free but registration was required. Please click here to register. Contact
Scientific Program
Torben Koenig - ILSI Europe Scientific Project Manager (tkoenig@ilsieurope.be)
Toula Aslanidis - ILSI Europe Project Assistant (taslanidis@ilsieurope.be) Registration
Hugo Costa, ILSI Europe Event Officer & Office Assistant (hcosta@ilsieurope.be)
For more information about the Food Allergy (FA) Task Force, click here
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AbstractUnderstanding the impact of the microbiota on the gut brain axis is key to exploring prophylactic or therapeutic approaches. The complexity and interindividual diversity of the gut microbiota, the impact of environment, diet, drugs and stresses, make it difficult to manage or manipulate the microbiota. Learnings from animal models, especially humanised rodent models, from 3D brain and gut organoids or advanced co-culture systems, can help understand the complex interactions between the host and his/her microbiota.
New sophisticated diagnostic tools applied in humans allow to not only know "who" is there, but also "what are they doing there". When applied on a large number of people, healthy and diseased, accumulated data will feed artificial intelligence algorithms, permitting to identify high-risk patients at an early stage, determine imbalances, whether microbiological, immunological, endocrinological or metabolic in nature, and suggest possible prophylactic interventions to mitigate risks.
Abstract based on Chakrabarti et al., Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (2022) 79:80 ; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00018-021-04060-w
Moderator
- Prof. Colette Shortt, University of Ulster (UK)
Panelists
- Dr Bruno Pot, Yakult Europe (NL)
- Dr David Vauzour, University of East Anglia (UK)
- Dr Lesley Hoyles, Nottingham Trent University (UK)
- Dr Elaine Patterson, Novozymes OneHealth (IE)
This event was organised by the Gut-Brain Axis Initiative of ILSI Europe
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On May 10th, ILSI Europe organised a free webinar on nutritional strategies to support healthy ageing. In the last century, we have added 30+ years to our life expectancies, but healthspan has not kept pace. We cannot reverse ageing, but we can extend our healthspan by changing our lifestyle. Please join us as we explore nutrition to improve health and age!
Dr Everson Nunes presented the latest insights on the current scientific evidence from randomized clinical trials regarding dietary protein supplementation to increase lean mass and strength. Prof. Philip Calder described findings from human trials that have investigated the effect of bioactive omega-3 fatty acids (EPA and DHA) on muscle protein turnover and on muscle mass and function. Possible mechanisms of action will be described. Lastly, Prof. Sue Shapses described how protein has multiple effects on maintaining a healthy body with aging, including evidence for bone health.
Speakers
- Dr Everson Nunes - Exercise Metabolism Research Group, Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, CA
- Prof. Philip Calder - Professor of Nutritional Immunology, University of Southampton, UK
- Prof. Sue Shapses - Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University, US
Chair
- Prof. Claire Gaudichon - Université Paris-Saclay, AgroParisTech, INRAE,UMR PNCA, Paris, France
This webinar was supported by the Health Benefits Assessment of Foods Task Force
ContactFor more information on this webinar, please contact Ms Naomi Venlet, Scientific Project Manager, at nvenlet@ilsieurope.be.
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About the SymposiumSince 2005, IAFP's European symposium has been shaping the future of food safety by providing a forum for the exchange of ideas with colleagues from across Europe working in industry, government, and academia. The Symposium is an excellent forum to gain knowledge about the latest-QRAB developments and techniques in food science and safety. The symposium will be held on 4-6 May 2022 in Munich, Germany at the Holiday Inn Munich - City Centre. For more details please visit the IAFP website.
This year ILSI Europe will participate to the Symposium through one scientific session supported by its Food Allergy Task Force. We will also have a booth in the exhibition area: Come visit us and do not hesitate to contact us to organise a one-to-one meeting, we would be very happy to meet and discuss with you.
Application of Food Allergen Risk Assessment and Management: Current Perspective and IssuesFriday, 06 May 2022, 08:30 AM (CEST) BACKGROUND
Food allergies were recognised as a significant, global public health issue over 25 years ago with the first FAO/WHO Consultation on allergens, which identified 8 priority allergenic foods or food groups. While this recognition implied a need to manage those allergens, the available tools severely limited what could be achieved at the time. In the intervening period, several methodologies have emerged and matured, together with a better understanding of the concept of tolerable risk. These developments and activities, together with the increasing global impact of food allergies on public health led to the recently concluded FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on Risk Assessment of Allergens as well as accompanying Codex activities. The landscape of food allergen management is thus at an inflection point. The previously established practice is that allergen cross-contact is managed in a binary fashion, i.e. either allergen is potentially present or not. This binary approach, which lacked industry alignment on how it was implemented, has led to inaccurate information being passed along supply chains. It has therefore led to a disconnect between the reality of risk and precautionary allergen labelling (PAL) and contributed to the proliferation of uninformative labelling. Fortunately, the current advent of allergen reference doses and their application in quantitative risk assessment can provide an opportunity to refresh how allergen risks are assessed and managed, but only if new tools are implemented consistently across businesses that produce food. OBJECTIVES
This session presented updates from recent food allergy related activities within Codex committees and FAO/WHO joint expert consultations, explored tools and approaches to harmonize the data gathering process for food allergen risk assessments and their implementation, and investigated the impact on consumers with food allergy when differing risk management strategies for allergen labelling are implemented. SESSION PROGRAMME
• Update on FAO/Who and Codex Activities Regarding Food Allergens, Prof. René Crevel, René Crevel Consulting Ltd, UK
• Practical Guidance on the Application of Allergen Quantitative Risk Assessment, Dr Neil Buck, General Mills Inc, CH
• Impact on Consumers with Food Allergies of Differing Public Health and Industry Risk Management Strategies, Dr Benjamin Remington, Remington Consulting Group B.V., NL Contact
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Globally there is an increased interest amongst government agencies, industry and academic experts in the integration of risk assessment as a part of allergen management, including as input into decisions on precautionary allergen labelling (PAL). Despite the increased maturity of allergen risk assessment approaches, which includes basic criteria on how calculations can be performed, there is a lack of consensus on practical deployment. This is a significant gap, as only with such consensus across all stakeholders and especially food operators can there be more accurate and meaningful PAL.
Through a series of stakeholder workshops, this project defined consensus on the methodologies needed for quantitative risk assessment by food business operators, and their implementation:
- Introduction to the New ILSI Europe Activity on Food Allergen Quantitative Risk Assessment, 29 June 2020
- Protected: Food Allergen Quantitative Risk Assessment - Digital Event, 29 October 2020
- Core Concepts: Food intake, data conversion, carry-over calculation, and prevalence of food allergy, 29 April 2021
- Incidents - characteristics of contamination, 7 May 2021
- Core Concepts: Sampling and analysis, 18 May 2021
- Incidents - communication, 1st June 2021
- Communication across the supply chain, 29 July 2021
- Food Allergen Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) - 2nd Digital Event 22 and 24 June 2021
- Food Allergen Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) - 3rd Digital Event 20 and 23 September 2021
The EG published a peer-reviewed publication (here) and released a practical guidance (Black and White Report) (here).
During the final webinar, we presented the chapters summaries of the Practical Guidance (Black & White Report) including Communication Across Supply Chains, Management of Operations, Management of Incidents and Overarching Core Concepts.
Programme
- Welcome and Introduction
Dr Benjamin Remington, University of Nebraska, US
Dr Michael Walker, Laboratory of the Government Chemist (LGC), UK
- Communication Across Supply Chains
Dr Benjamin Remington, University of Nebraska, US - Management of Operations
Dr Marty Blom, The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), NL
- Management of Incidents
Dr Neil Buck, General Mills, CH - Overarching Core Concepts
Prof. René Crevel, René Crevel Consulting, UK
- Questions & Answers
- Concluding Remarks
Dr Benjamin Remington, University of Nebraska,US
Dr Michael Walker, Laboratory of the Government Chemist (LGC), UK
Participation was free but registration was required. Please click here to register. Contact
Scientific Program
Torben Koenig - ILSI Europe Scientific Project Manager (tkoenig@ilsieurope.be)
Toula Aslanidis - ILSI Europe Project Assistant (taslanidis@ilsieurope.be) Registration
Hugo Costa, ILSI Europe Event Officer & Office Assistant (hcosta@ilsieurope.be)
For more information about the Food Allergy (FA) Task Force, click here
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