Selenium deficiency in Europe and how this affects food quality, food safety and ultimately human health will be among the issues addressed at this year’s European Selenium Conference: “Selenium in animal and human health – Nutrition inspired by nature” taking place in Prague on 10 June 2008.
Topics addressed include:
– “Selenium in human nutrition:
requirements and needs”, Prof. Margaret Rayman , University of Surrey, UK;
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“Selenium in food and feed: nature’s best design?”, Prof. Gerhard Schrauzer,
University of California, San Diego, USA;
– “Selenium status in the Czech
Republic”, Prof. Josef Illek et al., Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic;
– “Selenium status in Greece”, Dr. Athanasios Pappas, Athens University,
Greece;
– “Selenium status in Turkey”, Dr. Filiz Karadas, Van University,
Turkey;
– “Selenium status in Ukraine”, Prof. Sergey Melnichuk, National
Agricultural University, Ukraine;
– “Selenium in poultry nutrition”, Dr.
Peter Spring, Swiss College of Agriculture, Switzerland;
– “The role of
selenium in optimising pig performance: An update”, Dr. Wallace Henry,
Consultant, Ireland;
– “Impact of organic selenium on dairy and beef cows”,
Dr. Darren Juniper, Reading University, UK;
– “The horse and carriage:
Selenium & vitamin E”, Prof. Peter Surai, SAC, UK;
– “Nutrigenomics: An
essential tool to truly understand Selenium”, Dr. Richard Murphy, Alltech,
Ireland;
– “European regulatory issues surrounding Selenium”, Dr. Gerard
Bertin, Alltech, France;
– “Looking ahead”, Mr. Steve Elliott, Head of Human
Selenium Division, Alltech.
Related website:
Alltech