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FQH Workshop during the Biofach 2010, Nuremberg, Germany

The workshop will be held on 18th February in Room Riga from 1-3 pm. The main theme of the workshop is “Latest research results from 2009 on Organic Food, Quality and Health”. The program will be as follow:

• Dr. Alberta Velimirov: Results of a mice feeding study for quality assessment of BT-corn.
• Dr. Johannes Kahl: QACCP - a new approach to improve organic food quality.
• Dr. Daniel Kusche: Impact of management profiles of organic and conventional farms on milk quality
• Dr. Lucy van de Vijver: Do consumers experience a health effect of organic food? The consumers view.
• Machteld Huber, MD: Recent developments of the concept of “Health”, of interest to the organic sector.

FQH member Workshop 23-24 March 2010, Warsaw, Poland

Switzerland. In building a scientific community, since November 2008 one of the main themes in FQH is concept development: jointly discussing and thereby filling and defining terms that are relevant to organic food quality and health. In the first months of 2009 we focused on terms like ‘organic food quality’, ‘authenticity’, ‘vitality’, ‘true nature’, ‘integrity’, in a concept mapping process leaded by prof. Ton Baars of Kassel University. In the first day of the Workshop several steps forward were made in the understanding of each other. We decided to work further on some new interesting terms which appeared to be not fully clear: ‘inner quality’, ‘sustainable’, ‘holistic’, to be discussed further in the second Member Workshop in November 2009 in Warsaw. A second subject in the last year was the development of a FQH Research Agenda and, subsequently, contributing to the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) of TP Organics of the IFOAM EU group. On the second day of the Workshop the key challenges of the SRA were discussed and research ideas within the area of these challenges were discussed.
A Summary of the Workshop is now published on the members area of this website. In March 2010 a second FQH member Workshop will be organized, this time in Warsaw, Poland.

Organic food is not healthier than factory-farmed food......

This is the result of the largest review ever into the science behind organic food. The report, commissioned by the Food Standards Agency, was carried out by experts from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who studied data collected over 50 years. Organic groups are incensed by the findings. The report and the critics it has received can be downloaded from the following links.
Download report (.pdf)
Article at TimesOnline
Organic Center Response to the FSA Study

New members for FQH!!

In the first months of 2009 FQH welcomed two new Research members: the Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague (ICT) and Heliopolis Academy (Cairo, Egypt). We expect an inspiring and fruitful cooperation with these new members! FQH also welcomed a new Supporting member: SEKEM (Cairo, Egypt). More information on these new members can be found on the page ‘Members’ of this website.

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