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2^nd World Congress on

Malta Immunity Ingredients

 

Science, Market, Regulation & Industrial Applications

How to boost General & Skin Immunity?

 

Radisson SAS, Saint Julian, Malta

 

 

Programme

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Thursday October 28^th, 2010

 

8.30      Registration

 

9.00      Opening of the conference:  Immunity & oxidative stress: The challenges for the next          decade

            Pr M. Edeas, Chairman of the congress, President of ISANH

 

Session 1: Market

 

9.05      The Immunity Health Market

·         Presentation of the Market of Consumer Immunity

·         Factors driving the Immunity Market

·         Product Categories, Latest Trends and Evolutions of Sales

·         NPD Strategies and Regional Diversities

·         Communication Strategies to Stakeholders

·         Opportunities and Barriers for Businesses

Mrs K. Nielsen, CEO, Bio2com, Denmark

           

Session 2: Regulation

Regulation & Immunity Health claim: An analysis of successes and failures:

What makes a successful application?

 

9.35      Optimizing immune function: do we know what to measure and how to interpret?

Mr Ruud Albers, Nutrition & Health Discover Platform Director, Unilever Research & Development Vlaardingen, The Netherlands

 

10.05    Regulatory environment in the Europe Union

·         Regulatory framework

·         Issues addressed during evaluation of health claims

·         Guidance on substantiating the evidence of the beneficial effects of immunity boosters: How to undertake a good clinical study?

·         Guidance on submission of a dossier for health immunity claims evaluation

·         Learning points from published opinions

·         Examples of immunity health claims accepted by the EFSA

Dr Y. Sanz, Microbial Eco-physiology Group Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA), Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Spain

 

10.35 Coffee and Tea Break

Business to Business- Networking Session

 

 

 

 

 

Session 3: Science

How to boost general & skin immunity?

 

11.00 Oxidative stress and immunity: the potential role of antioxidants

·         Relationship between oxidative stress and immunity

·         Impact of antioxidants on the immune system

Pr M. Edeas, Chairman of the congress, President of ISANH, France

 

Immunity & Immunity system modulators: Application of natural ingredients:

Probiotics, Prebiotics & Antioxidants

 

11.30    Antioxidants and antioxidants Cofactors as boosters of immunity: the powerful of   polyphenols

·         Immunomodulatory effects of polyphenols

·         Effects of flavonoids in gastrointestinal disorders

Dr MP. Vinardell, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Barcelone, Spain

 

12.00 Discussion and Short oral presentations upon abstract submission: effects of antioxidants on immune health system

 

12.30 Lunch and Network Session

 

14.00    Perspectives on prebiotics and synbiotics: Applications for human health    improvement

·         Synbiotics:  Which prebiotic matches up best with probiotic strains to give the best health benefit? Which is the rate of bioavailabilty improvement that we can get using a symbiotic carrier?

Dr M. De Vrese, Federal Research Centre for Nutrition and Food, Max Rubner Institute, Germany

 

14.30    New frontiers and perspectives in probiotics research

·         Probiotics and gastrointestinal disease: successes, problems and future prospects

·         Mechanism of action: probiotics and gastric health

·         The role of probiotics in allergic diseases

·         The power of the synergy of probiotic strains

·         Could probiosis offer a new generation of probiotics?

            Dr C. Hill, University College Cork, Ireland

 

Discussion: To boost general and skin immunity: Myth or reality?

 

Immunity Ingredients Innovation:

Strategies to target babies, seniors and obese

 

15.00    Early life nutrition and immune modulation: the role of oligosaccharides

Dr L. Knippels, Danone Research – Centre for specialised Nutrition, The Netherlands

 

15.30 Coffee and Tea Break

Business to Business- Networking Session

 

16.00    Immunity, ageing and seniors: How to boost immunity of elderly people?

Dr E. Mengheri, INRAN – National Institute of Research for Alimentation and Nutrition, Italy

 

16.30    Obesity, immunity and gut microbes: is there a rational for nutritional intervention?

Dr Y. Sanz, Microbial Eco-physiology Group Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA), Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Spain

 

 

 

Session 4: Industrial Applications

New sources of immunity ingredients

 

17.00    Short Oral presentations upon abstract submission: 6 minutes to convince

 

ISANH will invite all specialist involved in Research and Development, Formulation, Marketing and Commercialization of immunity health ingredients or products who are oriented to this health care sector to present their expertise in this area.

 

17.30    Discussion with the Scientific Committee and Speakers on:

Flu, influenza, common cold and immunity:

Is there a place for better ways to prevent and treat this pathology?

 

The aim of the discussion is to debate the relationship between a common cold, flu or influenza and the immune system deterioration. It will be the occasion to discuss the potential application of natural ingredients which can be used to modulate and enhance the immune system.

 

17.45    Malta Immunity Ingredients Awards

The Scientific Committee will select and award the most innovative project with new ingredients and/or products to enhance and boost immune system

 

Step1: All files (scientific data, publications...) will be submitted to the Scientific Committee.
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Step 2: A short oral presentation will be proposed introducing the "Innovation" will take place during the conference.
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Step3: At the end of the congress, the scientific committee will decide the Winners, and will award the best innovative ingredient.

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Moreover, a special award will be awarded for "Immunity Ingredients 2010"

Only ingredients with high quality clinical study will be admitted.

 

For more information and file submission, please contact the scientific committee at isanh-conferences@orange.fr

 

18.30 End of the conference

 

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