Annual Conference 2007

The Federation of Bakers held its seventh Annual Conference on Wednesday, 16th May 2007 at One Great George Street, London SW1.

This year's event was well attended, with an audience of over 140 senior baking & milling industry representatives, major retailers, sister trade associations, civil servants & trade press.

A number of key trade issues were addressed including how the industry can strengthen its relationship with the Food Standards Agency; how bread will fit into the health debate in future; and how bakers can adapt their product to fit both consumers' and retailers' needs.

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Dame Deirdre Hutton CBE, Chair of the Food Standards Agency headed an impressive list of speakers, including:

Jeya Henry, Professor of Human Nutrition at Oxford Brookes University
Edward Garner, Director of TNS Worldpanel UK, and
Ian Bentley, Trading Executive – Protein & Agriculture at Marks & Spencer plc.

Copies of the speakers' biographies & presentations are available to download from the column on the right of this page.

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This year's Panel Debate was chaired by Sylvia Macdonald, Editor of the British Baker magazine, who was joined by panellists, Dr Andrew Wadge, Chief Scientist and Head of Food Safety at the FSA, Professor Robert Pickard, Director-General of the British Nutrition Foundation, Ian Bentley from Marks & Spencer and Joseph Street, Managing Director of Fine Lady Bakeries. Amongst the topics debated in this session were prescribed quantities, salt reduction, corporate social responsibility, folic fortification and bread prices.

A transcript of the Panel session is available to download from the column on the right of this page.

Please email amy.yeates@bakersfederation.org.ukif you would like to be added to the mailing list for further details of the 2008 event.

The Federation would like thank all our speakers and panellists for their contributions, and our sponsors whose contributions have enabled us to stage the event.

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