Top officials meet in Moscow for international food supplement symposium

摘要

Two hundred participants from across the globe, including regulatory officials and scientific experts, met at an international symposium in Russia last month to discuss the evolving regulatory frameworks of the food supplement market.rnThe Moscow symposium, titled 'Optimal Nutrition: role of biologically active components of food' saw high profile speakers in attendance from industry and government including Dr G.G. Onishenko, Head of Russia's Federal Office of Surveillance of Consumer Right Protection and Wellbeing; Basil Mathioudakis, Head of the European Commission's Unit on Food Law, Nutrition and Labelling; Jinjing Zhang, Deputy Director General, Department of Food Safety Coordination, State Food and Drug Administration, P.R. China;VictorTutelyan, head of the Institute of Nutrition (ION); Byron Johnson, Chairman of the International Alliance of Dietary/Food Supplement Associations (IADSA); and Dr Tatiana Pilat, Chair of the Council of Dietary Supplement and Healthy Food Producers of Russia (CDSP).