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Thank you to everyone who attended the 2005 Agri-Food Innovation
Forum and helped to make it a great success.
NEW -
Take-Away Conference Themes
from the Innovation Institute of Ontario
Updated - Presentation
Abstracts and Summaries
From Sunday
June 19th to Tuesday, June 21st 2005, delegates enjoyed presentations
from influential speakers from around the world including:
- Diet and
lifestyle interventions for chronic disease - Professor
Wim Saris, Nutrition and Toxicology Research Institute, Maastricht
University, The Netherlands
- Marketing
fruit and vegetable innovations to stimulate consumer demand
- Michael Simonetta, Chief Executive Officer, Perfection
Fresh Australia
- Bringing
innovation to market: An international perspective - Dr.
Lekh R. Juneja, Executive Vice President, Taiyo Kagaku Co.,
Japan
- Promoting
nutrition to Canadians - Mary Bush, Director General,
Office of Nutrition Policy and Promotion, Health Canada
- Applying
emerging science to address obesity - Dr. Claude Bouchard,
Director, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State
University
Full
conference agenda
Organizers
Overview
The Agri-Food
Innovation Forum is a coordinated effort of Agriculture and Agri-Food
Canada, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, MaRS Landing and
Ontario Agri-Food Technologies. Funding is being provided through
the Agricultural Policy Framework, an agreement among the federal,
provincial and territorial governments, to make Canada a world leader
in agricultural science and innovation. The Forum is supported by
the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario.
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