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Dietary fibre centre stage for ICC conference

03-Feb-2009

The International Association for Cereal Science and Technology (ICC) announced this month that more than 120 papers were submitted before 15 January 2009 for oral and poster presentation at the upcoming 4th International Dietary Fibre Conference (DF09) to be held in Vienna, from 1 to 3 July 2009.

Organised by the ICC and endorsed by the International Union of Nutritional Sciences, the Healthgrain project, ILSI Europe, and the American Association of Cereal Chemists, the conference brings the booming area of dietary fibre to centre stage.

Subjects explored during the three day programme include: New trends and developments in prebiotics; fibre and product formulations as well as structure-function relationships; dietary fibre products and functional health benefits.

According to the ICC, Kellogg's, TNO, Cosucra, Tate & Lyle, National Starch and Russia’s scientific research institute for grain and grain products Vniiz, are all, to date, major sponsors of DF09.