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Health Claims and Innovation
2 June 2009, Brussels
In a presentation addressed to representatives of Member States, the European Parliament, European patients, food industries, food experts and the European Patent Office, the renowned Max Planck Institute (www.mpg.de) indicated on the basis of a comparison with the pharmaceutical sector that a too rigid and restrictive regulatory environment can do much harm to European innovation in the food sector.
The lack of a proper economic and regulatory impact analysis for the health claims regulation (EC) 1924/2006, in addition to recently voiced concerns by the European Commission that the deadline for the health claims evaluations will not be met, raises in this regard even more uncertainty about the efficacy of this important piece of legislation in terms of one of its major objectives, i.e. to stimulate innovation.
Is the current process destined to throw away Europe’s technology baby with the bathwater? Parliamentarians, scientists, patients and industries responded to Dr Baines’ (Scientific Coordinator of the Max Planck Institute) presentation and are at the availability of the media for interviews.
The following documents are available for downloading:
- Press Release
- Agenda
- Speakers’ biographies
- Opening remarks by Karin Riis-Jørgensen, Member of European Parliament
- Key note presentation by Dr. Ivan C. Baines, Scientific Coordinator, Max Planck Institute
- Presentation by Prof. Dr. Markwart Kunz, Member of the Board, Südzucker
- Presentation by Dr. Paul Tenning, Regulatory Affairs Manager, Danisco
- Presentation by Nigel Baldwin, Senior Scientific and Regulatory Consultant, CANTOX
- Presentation by Jean-Luc Gal, Head of the Brussels Office, European Patent Office
- Presentation by Ysbrand Poortman, Vice President of the World Alliance of Organizations for the Prevention and Treatment of Genetic Conditions, Secretary General of the International Genetics Alliance
- Concluding remarks by Jules Maaten, Member of European Parliament
For additional information and/or interview requests, please contact David Webber or Dirk Jacobs, or contact the general PA International number: +32 2 735 83 96.
1 March 2008
International Roundtable Conference
on “Food Safety: International Trade, Sustainable Production, Social Responsibility"
Concerns over food safety have been a hot topic all over the world. Especially imported food products from China have been causing serious problems, not only in Japan where contaminated dumplings are a major news item these days, but also in other countries in Asia and Europe. However, these facts and the results of health studies demonstrating the negative impact of several food products from China, fail to provide an insight into this serious health issue.
Against this background the Public Advice International Foundation, the United Nations University and The Tokyo Foundation co-sponsored this international roundtable conference on 1st March 2008 at the UN House in Tokyo in order to shed more light on the backgrounds of and possible solutions for food safety issues.
The following conference documents are available for downloading:
This International Roundtable Conference was the third conference about food safety organized by PA International. More information on the past conferences in Berlin and Brussels can be found here.
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Based on the 1st March 2008 Tokyo conference the United Nations University published a Policy Brief on Food Safety and Trade Liberalization in an Age of Globalization
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