Dear Colleagues All,

I attach information concerning our annual Section meeting, to which we welcome any potential new members whom you may wish to bring along with you.  So attached you will find:

• an agenda for the meeting;
• the minutes of the last AGM, held in Milan in 2015, together with two annexes to these minutes;
• a report of the Section’s 2015/16 activities;  we have been so busy this year that only our main activities have been listed.   If you look at the equivalent report for last year, you will see other matters of lesser significance also listed, e.g. our advisory work for JPI HDHL – well, there has been plenty of this type of work in 2015/16 as well, besides all that is recorded on the attached list.

I hope to see as many as can get to it at our AGM meeting on 11th November – in just over two weeks’ time.   

Best wishes,  

Dr Christopher A Birt

President, EUPHA Section on Food and Nutrition

Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer

Department of Public Health and Policy

University of Liverpool

Att.

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AGM minutes_Milan 2015_Annex 1_221015

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8^TH EUROPEAN PUBLIC HEALTH CONFERENCE | 14 – 17 OCTOBER 2015 | MILANO CONGRESSI (MICO), MILAN, ITALY

HEALTH IN EUROPE – FROM GLOBAL TO LOCAL POLICIES, METHODS AND PRACTICES

PLENARY SESSIONS

We are excited to announce the following speakers at plenary sessions:

- Sir Andy Haines, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

- Kasturi Sen, Wolfson College, Oxford University

- Scott L. Greer, University of Michigan School of Public Health, USA

- Annemiek van Bolhuis, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands

- Jacqueline Müller-Nordhorn, Professor of Public Health at the Berlin School of Public Health

- Adriana Corina Stanciu, resident physician at Coltea Clinical Hospital Bucharest, Romania

- Dr. Mengistu Asnake Kibret, President of the World Federation of Public Health Associations

- Ilona Kickbusch, Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

- Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy and Director of the Centre for Food Policy, City University London

- Suzanne Marie Babic, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, USA

- Michael Moore, Public Health Association of Australia and Vice President of the World Federation of Public Health Associations

- Armin Fidler, President of the European Health Management Association (EHMA)

- Alessandra Lafranconi, Resident Physician in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, University of Milan

More information on plenary sessions here.

REGISTRATION

You can benefit from early bird registration fees until 1 September. Please note that this year’s  conference is one month earlier than in other years, so do not delay your registration until the last moment. Click for Registration.

PRECONFERENCES

The preconference programme is updated continuously. We offer interesting sessions on urban health and architecture, healthy food and nutrition, child injury prevention, sustainable health systems and social security, work and health. Check the website for regular updates.

EXPO MILANO 2015

FEEDING THE PLANET, ENERGY FOR LIFE encompasses how culture, technology, innovation, tradition and creativity relate to food and diet. The themes of food and nutrition are presented at the EXPO Milano in light of new global scenarios and emerging issues, with a principle focus on the right to healthy, secure and sufficient food for all the world’s inhabitants.

PRECONFERENCE ‘CAN WE FEED EUROPE SUSTAINABLY AND EQUITABLY?’ Why not combining your visit of the EXPO Milano with the pre-conference  organised by the EUPHA Section on Food and Nutrition on Wednesday 14 October. Find out more here.

The EPH Conference is held at the same time as the 48th National Congress of the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health (SItI), creating the largest public health event in Europe.  Both conferences are held in the ultramodern MiCo, only one Metro stop from the centre of Milan and the world exhibition EXPO Milano 2015.

HACCP – Food Safety Video  – Prevent Food Borne Illness – FDA – USA
Food Safety Video
Title: Start at the Store: Prevent Foodborne Illness Source from US FDA
To see the video, click on
- http://www.foodhaccp.com/movie1.html
- http://www.foodhaccp.com/movie1.html

FoodHACCP.com
Informative Website for FoodHACCP.com
To become a FREE new member, click on
- http://www.foodhaccp.com/membership_original.htm

FoodHACCP.com 
Food Safety and Quality Related Slides. 
– Food safety is in your hands
- Integrated Food Safety System
- Manure and water
- Food Safety Policy
- Salmonella
- Avian Flu
- Prevention of cross-contamination
- Food safety matters
- Defending food against biofilms  
- HACCP training tips

Click on;
- http://www.foodhaccp.com/online.html 

Safer Processing of Fresh-cut Produce 
On-line video training.
To view the training video, click on:
- http://www.foodhaccp.com/movie1.html 

Online Slides (Sanitation Training Module)
Source from: www.mda.state.mn.us/news/publications/food/safety 
To check the slides, click on:  
http://www.foodhaccp.com/online.html

Regulatory News

Feb. PDA Letter: Find out which PDA conference is volunteer Don Elinski’s in this issue’s Volunteer Spotlight. Plus, the India Chapter explores quality and sterility assurance. And find out why your resume may not be generating interviews.

VACCINES & BEYOND (Brussels, Belgium)

April 29-30: The aim of vaccine development is to design a stable product which is safe and efficacious for the intended patient population. Under a Quality by Design approach, product development begins with the establishment of predefined quality objectives. Such quality requirements are built on the basis of proven critical quality attributes (CQAs) & related acceptance ranges. This session will be dedicated to selected case studies from different vaccine manufacturers, showing paths for the achievement of this challenging objective. The focus will be on: (i) identification of potential CQAs through product knowledge and risk- based approaches; (ii) understanding of the relationship between structural features and immunogenicity; (iii) practical implications on specifications settings & process understanding, taking into account the need of periodic updates to incorporate the latest development data throughout the product’s lifecycle – Read More.

Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (Madrid, Spain)

une 3-4: As ATMPs cover the most recent type of medicinal products of high complexity, there is a clear need to discuss the challenges in product development and in non-clinical and clinical testing. Meanwhile, first products are now moving through the regulatory approval path, and the field is starting to take shape, gradually maturing.
This year’s program will specifically focus on CMC development topics both in early and late development as well as illustrate new technical developments in the field. The Program Committee also intends to select a number of submitted posters for short oral presentation and discussion.
Selected keynote lectures and a series of case studies encompassing a broad range of product types and development approaches will illustrate how ATMPs are currently being developed and tested. Examples will come from both the academic world and industry, and will cover cell therapy, gene therapy, and tissue engineering products. A careful selection of presentations aims to demonstrate ATMP diversity and the different aspects of their application and development. All this should set the stage for exchanging professional experience and new ideas in panel discussions. Read More.

Parenteral Manufacturing (Istanbul, Turkey)

June 24-25: Our conference will provide an update on the most recent developments of Turkey and provides interfaces to international, EU and US regulations with case studies from leading global and domestic companies sharing their expert knowledge. Showing current and new technologies will enable you to manufacture state of the art products.
The conference will be split into two main aspects: Regulation and Technology.

- Our track on Regulation will discuss the local landscape framework compared to international harmonized systems such as PIC/S. It will cover the current discussions in Quality Systems, Inspection requirements and especially focus on future regulation trends in Turkey and worldwide.

- Our track on Technology will give an overview of current quality topics, equipment, infrastructure and devices. It will show the current state of the art technology. Case studies will highlight requests and solutions by describing just finalized projects in Turkey. Read More.

GMP for APIs, a PIC/S-PDA Training Course (Brussels, Belgium)

September 18-19: Regulatory inspectors from PIC/S and members of PDA developed this training course based on ICH Q7, taking into account the latest regulatory developments which impact APIs.
This course will be held by inspectors and industry experts. It will start with an overview and provide background of API regulation. All 19 sections of Q7 will be covered. Inspectors will share observations from API manufacturing sites and there will be plenty of time to discuss in detail how to prepare for an inspection. Course participants will have the unique opportunity to receive answers to their specific questions.
PDA believes there is no better way to get first-hand information about the current best-practice in API manufacturing and all related activities. Be sure to sign up soon, seats are filling quickly!
Who should attend: API manufacturer, production, development, QA, QC functions, engineering – Read More.

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16548 Glienicke/Berlin, Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)33056 237710
Fax: +49 (0)33056 237777
https://europe.pda.org

Organizer:  SSPH+ PhD Program in Public Health 

Date: 12 – 14 February 2014

Place: University of Basel, Swiss TPH, Switzerland

More info:  http://www.ispm-unibasel.ch/ssphplus/spip.php?page=phd_courses&lang=en

Dates: 2-3 December 2013

Place:  Brussels, Belgium

Organiser: EHTEL

More info:  http://www.ehtel.eu/symposium2013