1st BIONCP meeting Theme 2 : Fork to farm

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Health in all policies From the declaration to
actions Liaison office of the Toscana Region -
25 Nov 2008
Isabelle de Froidmont-Görtz Directorate E
Biotechnology, Agriculture and FoodDG Research -
European Commission
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Overview of the presentation

• Why Research on food and nutrition ?
• New opportunities in the FP7

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Leading risk factors for ill health in the
European RegionSource World Health Report 2002
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Challenge for the future Action to protect
health.Why ?
Increasing world population
Ageing population
Metabolic disorders
From curative to preventive health care
Healthier lifestyle, fresher, healthier safe
foods, lower on fats and others, incorporating
new ingredients, bioactive components, with
enhanced availability
Interactive, personalised food
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What is done at Commission level ?

• Financial support for more research
• to respond to the needs of the European citizens
  and improve health and quality of life
• to support EU policies in the fields of health,
  nutrition and food safety gt better informed
  decisions taken by policy and regulatory bodies
    better regulation policies  new EU strategy
• Regulatory measures for the quality and safety of
  food - supplementation, contaminants, food
  contact materials, EU regulation (2006/1924) on
  nutrition and health claims (scientific evidence)
  
• Stimulation of other stakeholders initiatives
  European Technological Platform  Food for Life 
  to identify future key needs of food research in
  and for Europe in bringing together the main
  stakeholders
• http//www.ciaa.be/navigation/frames_fr/frameset1
  .htm

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Nutrition science of today

• Classical concept of prevention nutrient
  deficiencies diseases moved to the concept of
  optimal nutrition
• Aim to optimise the nutrient intake to promote
  overall health and well-being, to improve the
  physical and mental performance and to reduce the
  risk of disease such as cancer, obesity, CVD,
  diabetes.
• It is primordial to identify and elucidated the
  mechanisms of interaction between diet, genes and
  environment and the synergisms between the
  different components contained in food and their
  overall impact on health
• The role of research and food industry is
  essential

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Objective of Health-oriented Nutrition Research

• make the consumers health and well-being the
  major driving force for innovation in food
  beverage production
• to give scientific evidences for the health claim
  of food products
• to support the science-base of the
  risk-benefit-analysis of food as well as of
  dietary recommendations
• to develop innovative products and services for
  the early diagnosis, prevention and therapy of
  nutrition-related disorders/diseases

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• How EU research can help ?
• What are the new opportunities
• in the FP7?

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Seventh Framework Programme for Research and
Technology (FP7 2007-2013) general structure (50
billions )
Euratom
JRC
http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/home_en.html
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Cooperation Collaborative research

• 10 Thematic Priorities
• Health
• Food, Agriculture, Fisheries and Biotechnology
• Information and Communication Technologies
• Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new
  Production Technologies
• Energy
• Environment (including Climate Change)
• Transport (including Aeronautics)
• Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities
• Space
• Security

M
6 100
1 935
9 050
3 475
2 350
1 890
4 160
610
1 430
1 350
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Food, Agriculture, Fisheries and Biotechnology
Rationale

• Build a European Knowledge-Based Bio-Economy
  (KBBE)
• Respond to social and economic challenges
• High quality food and sustainable food production
• Food-related disorders (cardiovascular, obesity
  )
• Infectious animal diseases and zoonoses
• Sustainable agriculture/fishery and climate
  change
• Clean biomaterials from renewable bio-resources
• Involve all stakeholders (incl. industry) in
  research
• Support CAP and CFP
• Respond quickly to emerging research needs

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Theme 2. Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and
Biotechnology
Sustainable production and management of
biological resources from land, forest, and
aquatic environments Fork to farm Food
(including seafood), health and well being Life
sciences and biotechnology for sustainable
non-food products and processes
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Activity 2 Fork to farm-Food, health and well
being

• Consumer perception and attitudes towards food,
  understanding societal trends, cultural aspects
  of food, identify determinants of food choice
• Nutrition, diet-related diseases such as obesity
  and allergy, nutrigenomics, interaction between
  nutrition, physiological and psychological
  functions, food development (e.g. dietetic,
  functional, personalised foods)
• Innovative food and feed processing and
  packaging, smart control, waste management
• Improved quality and assured microbiological and
  chemical safety of food and feed, detection
  methods, risk governance
• Environmental impacts on/of the food chain, total
  food chain concept, global change, traceability

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Potential of new technologies
Micro, nanotechnologies Targeting delivery of
nutrient to organs, cells Modifying structure
(fibrillar, microemulsions) Encapsulation for
slow release of flavours, fragance or bioactive
comp. or protection against ext .factors such as
heat, acid, etc
Bioinformatic Building coherent models for
physiology Omics (nutrigenomics, metabolomics,
transcriptomics, etc) Identifying molecular
interaction, metabolic pathways
Cognitive sciences Neuro-imaging Understanding of
consumer behaviour Visualization (brain) for
subjective pleasantness of food, satiety, hunger,
addiction

• Imaging techniques (MRI, US, PET)
• Non-invasive techniques for visualization of
  consumption and digestion

This presentation shall neither be binding nor
construed as constituting a commitment by the
European Commission
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Research related to Obesity (FP6)

• EARNEST To understand and quantify the effect of
  early programming (foetal and early life) on
  later cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes
  cognitive and mental disorders, bone health and
  some cancers
• HELENA to increase the knowledge about the
  factors influencing the food choices and food
  preferences of adolescents in Europe (cultural,
  social, genetic and gender differences, dietary
  and physical activity patterns in European
  adolescents)
• IDEFICS to identify and prevent the effects of
  diet and lifestyle on children and infant health
• LIPGENE To understand the interaction between
  the diet and the genotype in the metabolic
  syndrome. To improve the fat composition of milk
  and meat products (animal nutrition) and to
  provide novel sources of fatty acids (plant
  biotechnology)
• DIOGENES to examine interactions between dietary
  components and genetic and behaviour factors

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Examples of FP6 projectson functional food

• FLORA Flavonoids and related phenolics for
  healthy living using orally recommended
  antioxydants (STREP 3.3 m)
• HEALTHGRAIN Exploiting bioactivity of European
  cereal grains for improved nutrition and health
  benefits (IP 144 m)
• LYCOCARD Role of lycopen for the prevention of
  CVD (IP 5.2 m)
• ISAFRUIT to increase fruit consumption,
  searching the improvement of health and
  well-being of Europeans and their environment, by
  taking a total chain approach, identifying the
  bottlenecks and addressing them by
  consumer-driven preferences (IP 13.2 m)
• NUTRASNACKS Ready-to-eat food for breakfast and
  sport activity with high content of nutraceutics
  preventing disease and promoting public health
  (STREP 3.7 m)
• NUTRIDENT Towards functional foods for oral
  health care isolation, identification and
  evaluation of beverage and food components with
  anti-caries and/or anti-gingivitis activities
  (STREP 2.2 m)

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Examples of projects financed in the FP7

• Malnutrition in developing countries (INSTAPA)
• Influence of food contaminants on early
  programming leading to obesity (OBELIX)
• Effect of diet on mental performance
  (NUTRIMENTHE)
• Impact of diet on ageing (LIPIDIET)
• Food labelling and consumer behaviour (FLABEL)
• Measures aimed at promoting healthy eating habits
  (EATWELL)
• Diet and its effect on the development of
  intestinal microflora and on the immune system
  through the entire life span (TORNADO)
• CALL 3
• Applying behavioural models for the prevention of
  obesity (focus on children)
• Stress, addiction and eating behaviour
• Role and mechanisms of action of plant bioactive
  compounds
• Strategies for sustainable eating habits

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Call approach and roadmap

• Work programme 2009
• CALL KBBE-2008-3
• Publication September 2008
• CSA, CPs NoE covering all activities and areas
• Budget 2009 233 M
• 1 step evaluation procedure and up to one project
  per topic will be funded
• Deadline for proposal submission 15 January 2009
• Specific International Cooperation Actions (SICA)
  with region indication and minimum number of
  third countries

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Selection of the topics in the FPs

• Focus on expected impact
• European added value
• Strategic areas of importance for EU growth and
  competitiveness
• Areas supporting and /or regional challenges and
  the global responsability of EU
• Actions where time and emerging research needs
  are critical

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Further Information

• EU research http//europa.eu.int/comm/research
• Sixth Framework Programme
• http//www.cordis.lu/fp6/home.html
• http//www.cordis.lu/fp6/food.htm
• Seventh Framework Programme http//www.cordis.eur
  opa.eu/fp7/home.html
• Research DG Site
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/research/index_en.html
• RTD info magazine
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/research/rtdinfo/
• Information requests http//ec.europa.eu/research
  /index.cfm?pgenquiries