Food Allergen Management Symposium2015 (FAMS2015)

Global Best Practice and Clinical Implications

SPONSORSHIP

OPPORTUNITIES & EXHIBITION

PROSPECTUS

12-14 May 2015

Crowne Plaza Hotel

Coogee, Sydney, Australia

Invitation to Participate

On behalf of the Organising Committee, it is with great pleasure that we invite you to attend and contribute to the Food Allergen Management Symposium 2015 (FAMS2015), to be held from 12-14 May 2015 in Sydney, Australia.

Food allergy has emerged as a significant food safety challenge for the food and associated industries. This impacts on consumers worldwide. Around 6-8% of children and 1-2% of adults experience at least one form of food allergy or another. It is estimated that 1 in 10 newly born babies in Australia is likely to develop food allergy and prevalence is on the rise. The financial burden from medical costs to economic losses such as from product recalls can amount to billions of dollars.

The FAMS2015 aims to update the current regulatory framework and to showcase recent discoveries on food allergen/allergy research. It provides an excellent forum to bring together all stakeholders to discuss strategies for more effective food allergen management by incorporating new development into integrated risk assessment and management.

Only through a holistic approach can we prevent deaths caused by food allergy.

The symposium will cover the following session themes:

• • Update global regulatory framework• • Risk assessment and clinical thresholds/ action

levels• • The Allergen Bureau’s VITAL® Framework• • Analytic for food allergens management • • Advanced analytical techniques• • Food allergy management and medical

therapies

Alice Lee, Kirsten Grinter, Robin Sherlock and James RobertsFood Allergen Management Symposium 2015 co-chairs

Preliminary Program

Pre-symposium Training Workshop - Monday 11th May (optional) Allergen Management and VITAL® Training (including preview of VITAL® Online ) UNSW, 9am – 4pm 

Pre-symposium Allergen Testing Special Interest Group (ATSIG) Meeting - Monday 11th May (by invitation only)National Measurement Institute, North Ryde, 12 pm – 4 pm (including lunch) 

Monday 11th May 1800 Welcome Reception + Registration

2000 Close

   

Tuesday 12th May - Food Allergen Regulations and Overview0800 Registration and tea on arrival

0900 - 0915 Welcome

0915 - 0930 Opening Address (TBA)

0930 - 1015 Keynote 1 - Food Allergens – From Chaos to ControlProf. Stephen Taylor (FARRP)

1015 - 1045 Tea Break

Session 1 – Food Allergen Regulation Update- (setting the scene)

1045 - 1115 Keynote 2: Global Allergen Regulation OverviewSam Godefroy (Health Canada)

1115 - 1135 The Australian New Zealand Regulatory EnvironmentDean Stockwell (FSANZ) (TBC)

1135 - 1155 The Japanese Regulatory Environment Dr Masahiro Shoji (Morinaga Institute)

1155 - 1230 Session 1 discussion

1230 - 1330 Lunch

1330 - 1400 Keynote 3 - Allergen Hazard Identification and ControlRene Crevel (Unilever)

Session 2 – Risk Assessment and Action Levels

1400 - 1430 Thresholds and ActionsGeert Houben (TNO)

1430 - 1500 Use of Thresholds and Action Levels for Quantitative Risk Assessment Joe Baumert (FARRP)

1500 - 1530 Tea Break

Session 3 – The Australian Perspective

1530 - 1550 The Allergic Consumers Maria Said (Anaphylaxis Australia)

1550 - 1610 The Australian Food Industry Overview Fiona Fleming (AFGC and the Allergen Forum) - TBC

1610 - 1630 “Gluten-Free” - TBC

1630 - 1700 Sessions 2 and 3 discussion

Preliminary Program

Day 2 - Wednesday 13th May - Allergen Management and Analysis 0800 Registration and tea on arrival0900 - 0930 Keynote 4 – Insights from EuroPrevall and iFAAM

Clare Mills (iFAAM)0930 - 1000 Keynote 5 – Clinical Management of the Food- Allergic Patient

Katie Allen (Murdoch Children Hospital)Session 4 - Analysis for Food Allergen Management

1000 - 1030 Food Allergen Management and the VITAL® Framework Allergen Bureau – the Vital Framework and the on line calculator

1030 - 1100 Tea Break1100 - 1140 An overview of Commonly Used Methodologies

Roland Poms (MoniQ Association) 1140 - 1200 Mass Spectrometry for Food Allergen Analysis

NMI (speaker TBC) 1200 - 1220 Allergonomics

ARC ITTC ATFM (speaker TBC)1220 - 1245 Session 4 discussion1245 - 1345 Lunch1345 - 1410 Practical Application of Analysis for Allergen Management

Rob Sherlock (Allergen Bureau)1410 - 1435 The Essence of a Good Validation

Steve Taylor – (FARRP) 1435 - 1455 Food Industry – The Challenges for Industry – a Food Industry

Example – e.g. Mondelez and their overall approach Or case study – What to do When it Goes Wrong

1500 - 1530 Tea BreakSession 5 - Analytical Session

1530 - 1550 Methods that are “fit for purpose”Sigrid Haas-Lauterbach (r Biopharm)

1550 - 1610 Explaining Unexpected Positive ResultsTony Treloar (ELISA SYSTEMS)

1610 - 1630 Analysis for Outcomes 1 - TBC Speakers TBC (Waters)1630 - 1650 Analysis for Outcomes 2 - TBC Speakers TBC (Agilent)1650 - 1710 Session 5 discussion1900 - 2130 Conference dinner

Day 3 Thursday 14th May - Food Allergen Research and Clinical Issues 0800 Registration and tea on arrival0815 - 0845 Keynote 6 - Effects of Processing on Allergens and Their Detection

Clare Mills (iFAAM) 0845 - 0915 Keynote 7 - Molecular characterisation of allergens

Andreas Lopata (James Cook University)Session 5 - Clinical Intervention Update

0915 - 0945 Update on immunotherapyDianne Campbell (USyd and Westmead Children Hospital)

0945 - 1015 Infant nutrition and Food Allergy John Sinn (USyd and Northshore Hospital)

1015 - 1045 Tea Break1045 – 1105 Update from dietician perspective

(TBA)1105– 1130 Low FODMAP diet for Irritable Bowel Syndrome

(TBC)Session 6 - Food Allergen Research

1130 – 1150 Allergen-free eggCenk Suphioglu (Deakin University) TBC

1150 – 1210 Food processing impacts on food allergens or equivalentARC ITTC ATFM – Alice Lee

1210 - 1230 NMI (speaker TBC)

1230 - 1330 LunchSession 7 – Postgraduate 3 min presentation

1330 - 1445 Session 7 – Postgraduate 3 min presentation (12 presentations)1445 - 1500 Closing Ceremony

Preliminary Program

Keynote and Invited Speakers

Professor Steve L. Taylor (Ph.D.) currently serves as Professor in the Dept. of Food Science & Technology and Director of the Food Allergy Research & Resource Program at the University of Nebraska. Professor Taylor’s primary research interests involve the development of methods for the detection of residues of allergenic foods, the determination of the minimal eliciting doses for specific allergenic foods, the assessment of the allergenicity of ingredients derived from allergenic sources, and the assessment of the allergenicity of foods produced through agricultural biotechnology. He has published research on peanut, soybean, Brazil nut, almond, and cows’ milk allergies among a total of over 250 publications.

Professor Clare Mills is Professor of Allergy at the University of Manchester and a lead Chief Investigator of the new iFAAM project. Professor Clare Mills applies her molecular science to understand, better diagnose and treat food allergies. Through several EU Frame Work Programmes she developed a network of researchers that put forward the expression of interest on food allergy which subsequently the consortium applied for, and won, and came on to become the EuroPrevall project. Spanning 17 countries, including India, China, Russia and Ghana, it had 63 partners spanning clinical science, epidemiology, social science, biochemical and immunological sciences, academia and industry.

Dr Samuel Godefroy is the Director General of Health Canada’s Food Directorate. He served as Vice Chair of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, the international food standard setting body from 2011 to 2014. During his tenure, Dr Godefroy led the development and facilitated the adoption by consensus of the organisation’s strategic plan for 2014-19. He represents Canada in various international food safety venues under the auspices of APEC, the Codex Alimentarius Commission and the QUADs (Canada, USA, Australia, New-Zealand) food safety cooperation forum.

Keynote and Invited Speakers

Professor Katie Allen is a Paediatric Gastroenterologist and Allergist, undertaking research in the evolving field of food allergy. She is a prestigious Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellow and is the Principal Investigator of the HealthNuts Study - the largest single centre population-based study of food allergy in children ever mounted. Professor Allen is Chief Investigator on a further 6 NHMRC-funded cohort studies (and Associate Investigator on a further 2 NHMRC grants) which seek to answer parts of the jigsaw with regards to population health and evolution of the new allergy epidemic including gene-environment and epigenetic associations with food allergy.

Associate Professor Andreas Lopata leads the Molecular Immunology Research Group in the College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, Division of Tropical health and Medicine, James Cook University, where he is Co-Director of the Centre for Biodiscovery & Molecular Development of Therapeutics and leads the Molecular Immunology Program. A/Prof. Lopata’s research team uses cutting-edge approaches in characterising the interactions of immunogenic proteins from different food sources including marine invertebrates and parasites with the human immune system leading to allergic and inflammatory reactions. He has published over 100 journal articles and presented at over 200 national and international conferences.

The Food Allergen Management Symposium 2015 (FAMS2015) will provide a valuable opportunity for sponsors and exhibitors to promote themselves amongst stakeholders.

Symposium delegates will receive symposium proceedings that will contain symposium information, plenary, keynote and invited speakers biography and abstracts, together with sponsor messages.

Sponsorship Opportunities

Platinum sponsor (1 ) $15,000 (SOLD)

• Acknowledgement as Platinum Symposium Sponsor on all materials• Opportunity to address delegates for 5 minutes at commencement of symposium• Double exhibition space and premium positioning in the exhibition area• Full page colour advertisement inside front cover of symposium proceeding book• Further full page colour advertisement in symposium proceeding book• Company logo most prominent on symposium holding slide• Registration for four (4) representatives to the full symposium scientific program

and trade exhibition, including the welcome reception, daily symposium catering and symposium dinner

• Acknowledgement as Platinum Symposium Sponsor, including the symposium registration brochure and other marketing material

• Thank you article in the ATFM and Allergen Bureau’s e-Newsletter

Sponsorship Opportunities

Gold sponsor (1) $10,000 (SOLD)

• Acknowledgement as Gold Symposium Sponsor on all materials• Double exhibition space and premium positioning in the exhibition area

after Platinum Sponsor selection• Further full page colour advertisement in symposium proceeding book• Company logo most prominent on symposium holding slide• Registration for two (2) representatives to the full symposium scientific

program and trade exhibition, including the welcome reception, daily symposium catering and symposium dinner

• Acknowledgement as Gold Symposium Sponsor, including the symposium registration brochure and other marketing material

• Thank you article in the ATFM and Allergen Bureau’s e-Newsletter

Silver sponsor (2) $8,500 Acknowledgement as Silver Symposium Sponsor on all materials Single exhibition space and premium positioning in the exhibition area after

Platinum and Gold Sponsor selections Further full page colour advertisement in symposium proceeding book Company logo most prominent on symposium holding slide Registration for one (1) representatives to the full symposium scientific

program and trade exhibition, including the welcome reception, daily symposium catering and symposium dinner

Acknowledgement as Silver Symposium Sponsor, including the symposium registration brochure and other marketing material

Thank you article in the ATFM and Allergen Bureau’s e-Newsletter

Bronze sponsor (4) $5,000 (3 SOLD)

• Acknowledgement as Bronze Symposium Sponsor on symposium registration brochure

• Positioning of exhibition in order of booking• A half page colour advertisement in symposium proceeding book• Company logo most prominent on symposium holding slide• Registration for one (1) representatives to the full symposium scientific

program and trade exhibition, including the welcome reception, daily symposium catering and symposium dinner

Sponsorship Opportunities

Plenary/Keynote (International)Speaker Sponsor (limited) ($7,500)

Symposium Dinner Sponsor (1)($3,500)

Welcome Reception Sponsor (1)($3,500)

Poster/ 3 min Oral Presentation Prize Sponsor (2) (1 SOLD)($1,000)

Why Exhibit?

Exhibition

Key reasons to exhibit at the Food Allergen Management Symposium 2015 (FAMS2015):

• Highly targeted marketing, with digital advertising campaigns featuring editorial coverage and branding of event sponsors and media partners

• Reach your target audience and potential buyers/users in three days

• An opportunity to build a database of new potential customers, which may lead to follow up sales in the coming weeks and months

• Connect with a large gathering of food allergen/allergy professionals and meet the experts

Cost of exhibition (10 spaces):

• Food/medical industry: $1,100• Scientific: $1,600• Associations: $600

Dr Alice Lee - Co-chair (ARC Training Centre ATFM, UNSW)

Mr James Roberts - Co-chair (National Measurement Institute)

Ms Kirsten Grinter - Co-chair (Allergen Bureau and Nestlé)

Ms Robin Sherlock - Co-chair (Allergen Bureau and DTS)

Mr Ray Murphy (Allergen Bureau) Dr Saman Buddhadasa (National Measurement Institute)

Mr Dean Clark (National Measurement Institute)

Ms Jenny Bruce (National Measurement Institute)

Mr Shyam Kumaran (National Measurement Institute)

Prof Stephen Taylor (FARRP)

Dr Joseph Baumert (FARRP)

Conference secretary

Dr Sridevi Muralidharan (FAMS2015@unsw.edu.au)Xin Sun (FAMS2015@unsw.edu.au)

The Organising Committee

If you have any inquiries regarding the exhibition or would like to get involved in FAMS2015, please contact Conference Coordinator at FAMS2015@unsw.edu.au or alice.lee@unsw.edu.au (02 93854363)

Application Form

Food Allergen Management Symposium 2015 (FAMS2015) Sponsorship and Exhibition Application Form

Organisation Name:Contact Person: Postal Address: Email: Phone: Purchase Number (if required): Total Amount: Date (application completed):

Please select items by clicking on the appropriate items in the table below• All prices are quoted in Australian dollars and do not include GST (10%).• A summary of all sponsors and exhibitors will be included on the Food

Allergen Management Symposium 2015 (FAMS2015) website and proceeding.

Sponsorship Amount Tick ()

Platinum sponsor (1 only) $15,000  Gold sponsor (1 only) $10,000  Silver sponsor (2 only) $8,500  Bronze sponsor (unlimited) $5,000  Plenary/Keynote (international) speaker sponsor

$7,500  

Welcome reception sponsor (1) $3,500  Symposium dinner sponsor (1) $3,500  Poster prize sponsor (2) $1,000  Exhibition $600 - $1600