10:00-12:00 The Latest Developments in Food Data in the UK – a Practical Guide

The UK Foodcomp Project
Sponsored by the British Nutrition Foundation

This session will focus on the updates to the food composition data for the next edition of McCance and Widdowson’s the Composition of Foods. This session will provide an update on new data within the dataset that are now available online and also provide some training in how to use this data. This session would provide information on the latest additions to the online dataset including new data on trans fatty acid content, new analyses on fish and eggs and data from the food industry on the sodium content of bread. The session would also provide practical advice on the use and processing of the dataset.

Chair: Dr Sian Robinson, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, Southampton

10:00- 10:35 Background to the UK Foodcomp project and the latest data on trans fatty acids in our food Hannah Pinchen, Institute of Food Research

10:35-10:55 A guide to the UK online dataset
Susan Church, Independent Public Health Nutritionist

11:00-11:30 BREAK: Opportunity to visit the exhibition, gather resources, win prizes and network

11:30-12:00 Q&A session – a chance for the audience to pose their questions to the panel and provide feedback on the project

12:45- 14:15 LUNCH: Opportunity to visit the exhibition, gather resources, win prizes and network

13:15-14:45 Food, Nutrition and the Public Health Agenda –Everyone’s business
Sponsored by the BDA Public Health Nutrition Network

Chair
Kirsten Whitehead PHNN Committee member

Speakers and Facilitators
Jackie Loach - Principal Dietitian Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Kathy Cowbrough - Freelance Dietitian and Public Health Nutritionist, Retford Nottinghamshire

Background

The Community Nutrition Group (CNG) of the British Dietetic Association (BDA) has been active since 1974 sharing strategies on nutrition and dietetics, in primary care, public health, health promotion departments and keeping Dietitians up to date with the wider food and health community. The BDA Public Health Nutrition Network (PHNN) is a new initiative moving on from the work of CNG. It will highlight the importance of Public Health Nutrition and provide opportunities to network and develop food and nutrition planning policy and action.

Here is your chance to be part of the action on the nutrition and health strategic agenda. Effective food and nutrition policy and action is vital in improving public health and health care services. Come and join other health care professionals at this interactive networking session to consider how we can influence others to recognise this. We will look at examples of public health nutrition action in different settings and consider strategies to keep food and public health nutrition on everyone’s agenda.

Objective of this session

To share strategies on food and public health nutrition and look at ways to influence action on public health nutrition in the health care services and the wider community.