Radisson Blu Royal Hotel - Brussels, Belgium - Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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| 8:55 Introduction | |
| Review Lectures | |
| 9:00 | EU Regulatory Framework for Food Supplements, Fortified Products, Botanical Extracts and Cosmeceuticals - Mrs. Elodie Lebastard, Food Law Advisor EAS, Belgium, EAS, Belgium |
| 9:40 | Botanical Claims, the Battleground Area in Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation - Dr. Barbara Klaus, Lawyer & Partner, meyer // meisterernst, Italy |
| 10:20 | Approximation of Laws and Mutual Recognition of Laws for Botanical Extracts - Mr. Jean Savigny, Senior Partner, Keller & Hackman, Belgium |
| 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 | Difference between a Medicinal Product vs. Botanical Based Food Supplements - Case-law of the Court of Justice - Mr. Sebastián Romero Melchor, Lawyer/Partner, Food Law Consultants, Belgium |
| 12:10 | Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products: Opportunities for Herbal Products in the EU - under medicines and under food law? – Mr. Martin Last, Chairman of the HFMA, U.K. |
| 12:50 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Claims for Food Supplements: Elements to Determine if Inside or Outside the Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation - Dr. Michel Donat, Chairman European Botanical Forum (EBF), Belgium |
| 14:30 | Claims and Intellectual Property Rights - Mrs Florence Verhoestraete, Partner IP, NautaDutilh, Belgium |
| 15:00 | Tea break |
| Case studies | |
| 15:30 | Measuring the Effect of Herbal Extracts and Botanicals - Dr Alwine Kardinaal, Scientific Consultant Nutrition & Health, TNO Quality of Life, Netherlands |
| 16:00 | Benefit from Generic Health Claims? Value in Regard to Developing Innovative Food Products - Dr. Inga Köhler, Senior Consultant, analyze & realize, Germany |
| 16:30 | Borderline Products, Commercial Advantages of Selecting the Relevant Classification as Traditional Herbal Medicine and Botanicals - Mr. Alexander Roussanov, EU Regulatory Affairs Advisor, Hogan Lovells International, Belgium |
| 17:00 | Developing botanicals as food supplements, traditional medicine or drug: the consequences on product development program - Mrs. Virginie Coste, Quality and Regulatory Affairs Director, Naturalpha, France |
| 17:30 Wrap-up and Conclusions | |
