Tuesday, 4 June 2019

8.30 Registration and coffee

9.00 Welcome address by Akademie Fresenius and introduction by the Chair

Andreas Meisterernst, Meisterernst Rechtsanwälte (law firm), Germany

The Legal Frame

9.10 Legal news

• European Court Of Justice: “Schwabe/Queisser”
• German Jurisdiction on Beauty Claims
• Recent changes in the Novel Food Catalogue

Andreas Meisterernst, Meisterernst Rechtsanwälte (law firm), Germany

9.50 First experiences with the new Novel Food Regulation

• Novel Food Regulation 2019
• Responsibilities and processes
• New monitoring obligations = better surveillance?
• Update on data protection

Christian Ballke, Meisterernst Rechtsanwälte (law firm), Germany

10.20 Panel discussion

10.40 Coffee break

11.10 Legitimate information vs. prohibition of claims

• Do communications based on facts that contain objective statements fall under the scope of the Claims Regulation?
• Relevance of the consumer protection objective as laid down in the Claims Regulation
• Role of the freedom of commercial speech in the EU legal system and its interpretation by the EU Courts
• Recommendations – keeping it safe

Sebastián Romero Melchor, Food Compliance International, Singapore

11.50 Chill the gin! Derogations for generic descriptors

• Why it took 13 years
• Regulation (EU) 2019/343 in detail
• More to come?

Andreas Kadi, sraConsulting, Austria

12.20 German list of substances

• Update
• Conceptual design
• New categories

Evelyn Breitweg-Lehmann, German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL)

12.50 Panel discussion

13.15 Lunch

Application and Authorisation

14.30 Claims on Botanicals: the Italian view

Paola Corte, Studio Legale Corte, Italy

15.00 What’s cooking in The Netherlands? A 30-minute report from a Member State

• Update selfregulatory decisions / court cases
• NVWA enforcement activities in 2019
• Challenges for Dutch companies

Sarah Arayess, Hoogenraad & Haak, The Netherlands

15.30 Panel discussion

15.50 Coffee break

16.20 Application procedures under the new Novel Food Regulation

• Overview about the different procedures
• The e-submission platform
• Timelines

Anne-Marie Orth, RDA Scientific Consultants, Germany

16.50 Impact of the new transparency rules on innovation

• What’s new and what’s the same under the new regulatory framework
• The impact of disclosure rules on study design and regulatory strategies
• Protecting competitive information and trade secrets
• EU transparency vis-a-vis US: is US home to innovation?

Francesco Planchenstainer, Ferrero Group, Luxembourg

17.30 Panel discussion

17.45 End of first conference day

18.45 Departure time for the evening event

After the first conference day Akademie Fresenius would like to invite you to a leisurely evening at the Ingelheimer Winzerkeller in the wine-growing region Rheinhessen. You have the opportunity of better getting to know other participants you met during the day over a relaxed wine tasting and meal.

Wednesday, 5 June 2019

9.00 Welcome address by the Chair

Andreu Palou, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

Nutrition and Functional Ingredients

9.10 Health claims and nutrition information

• Healths claims
• Nutrition labelling
• Nutrient profile
• Precision nutrition

Andreu Palou

9.50 What sports nutrition teach us about amino acid scoring as a measure of protein quality

• The recommendations of the FAO Report that were not talked about in the last 5 years
• Regulating protein quality in food labels and claims vs. new science in nutrition
• Case-studies: there is more to protein than its amino acid content

Suzane Leser, Gelita, Germany

10.20 Understanding probiotics in a European context

• Summary of the situation on probiotics in the EU
• How to reshape the strategies of the probiotic food and food supplements industry
• Explanation of the legal context
• Activity undertaken by IPA Europe at global level

Rosanna Pecere, IPA Europe, Belgium

10.50 Panel discussion

11.10 Coffee break

11.40 Modulation of the microbiome by dietary fiber – perspective for health claims

• Dietary recommendations – fiber gap – Implications for the microbiome
• Microbiome-mediated health benefits of dietary fiber
• Microbiome-targeted health claims – EFSA requirements
• Study design – critical issues
• Dietary fiber – perspective for health claim microbiome-mediated health benefit

Stoffer Loman, NutriClaim, The Netherlands

12.10 Marketing of Omega-3 fatty acids: perspective of an ingredients company

• General and individual needs
• Bioavailability and measurement of omega-3 status
• Value of omega-3 supplementation

Bernd Haber, BASF, Germany

12.40 Panel discussion and closing remarks

13.00 Lunch buffet and end of the conference