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WELCOME TO FQHThe FQH association encourages, co-ordinates and disseminates research in the field of organic food and health. Coordinator Coming EventsFQH General assembly during Biofach 2010 FQH Workshop on latest research results during Biofach 2010 FQH Scientific workshop on concept development May 18 - 20, 2011 in Prague Research results of the Organic CenterOrganic research results of the Organic Center for Education and Promotion. |
NewsFQH 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:
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. 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. 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. |