ACTI-Day Nutrition and Health conference
24 April 2007
The Syral company is organising ACTI-Day, a nutrition and health conference that will take place on June the 14th 2007 at Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport, in the Radisson Hotel.
As a leading food ingredient supplier, Syral takes part in the responsibility for nutritional and health problems, and is therefore committed to providing healthy food choices to consumers. During ACTI-Day, we wish to offer new technical, scientific and marketing perspectives, and present how innovative ingredients can help food manufacturers take an active part in the marketing of nutritional and healthy food.
ACTI-Day is designed for food technologists, marketing managers and new product developers who are, or wish to become, involved in contributing to the shift of the food industry to healthier foods by promoting better-for-you products and functional food.
The nutrition and health conference will give them an opportunity to get an overview of market trends, discover new examples of food formulation with improved nutritional value, including Actilight® and Maltilite®; get updated about new regulations; discuss the latest scientific evidence in the pre-biotics area; and benefit from expert knowledge.
THE PROGRAMME
Morning session, 09:30 to 12:30 – new concepts and innovative ideas to improve the nutritional value of foods:
- Nutrition and health claims: the new EU regulation (Dr Anne Wagner, Syral innovation department)
- Overview of market trends and innovative ingredients (Mrs Pilar Roig, Mintel, London)
- Formulating foodstuff with better nutritional value (Professor Daniel Tomé, Agroparistech, Paris)
- Fibres: how to comply with consumers' expectations (Dr Francesca Mercandelli, Giulio Gross, Milan)
- Sugar reduced and fibre-enriched products with Actilight and Maltilite: innovation in dairy and snacks (Mrs Laurence Baron, Syral innovation department)
12:30 to 13:30 – lunch
Afternoon session, 13:30 to 17:00 – prebiotics: the benefits of functional ingredients for health and well-being:
- Human intestinal micro-flora: from infants to adults (Dr Joel Doreacute;, INRA Jouy en Josas)
- Prebiotic ingredients and the bifidogenic effect (To be announced)
- Obesity prevention: new insights from digestive microflora (Dr Petra Louis, RRI Aberdeen)
- Effects of fructo-oligosaccharides on obesity (Mrs Frédérique Respondek, Syral innovation department)
- Intestinal micro-flora and gut health (Dr Annick Bernalier, INRA Theix)
- Beneficial influence of fructo-oligosaccharides in digestive comfort (Dr Francis Bornet, Nutrihealth, Paris)
