FDA Roundtable on Nutrition Policy

FDA will host a Nutrition Roundtable Discussion on Friday, Dec. 12, 2008 from 1pm to 3:30 pm, at the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), Harvey W. Wiley Building, College Park, Md.

The agency designed the roundtable to share information on FDA's nutrition activities and provide status updates in the following tentative list of topics: foods referred to as Functional Foods, Health Claims, Evidence Based Review Guidance, Critical Path project on Biomarkers for use in Health Claims, Front-of-Pack Labeling, the collaboration between FDA and USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion for nutrition education and outreach, "Spot the Block" for 'Tweens' children 9 to 12 years, and other issues, for example, including the sodium status and implementation of section 912 of FDAAA.

Stephen Sundlof, D.V.M, Ph.D., CFSAN director, will lead the roundtable, which will also feature remarks from David Acheson, MD, FDA associate commissioner, and a question and answer session. Click here to register.