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Fifth International Advisory Board Meeting for the BfR MEAL Study

What progress can the BfR MEAL study team report from the first two years of the field phase? What are the next steps of the second field phase of the first German total diet study to look like? The International Advisory Board of the BfR MEAL Study met at the BfR location in Alt-Marienfelde on 13 and 14 April 2019 to discuss these questions.

For the fifth time now, the BfR MEAL study team convened jointly with scientists from international organisations, such as the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the Institute’s French sister authority ANSES and other international experts.

The two-day meeting focused on the one hand on the experiences made in the first field phase, which is set to end in April. On the other hand, the members of the Advisory Board discussed with the BfR the conception of the second phase, in which process contaminants, additives, pharmacologically effective substances and substances that migrate from food packagings are to be examined. The BfR MEAL team explained which individual adjustments are planned in the selection of substances to be examined and in the methodology in order to do justice to the special challenges of the individual modules. Thanks to their extensive knowledge of the design of total diet studies from other countries, such as Canada, France and New Zealand, the members of the Advisory Board were able to give important impulses for the further duration of the BfR MEAL Study.

It was also discussed to what extent new eating habits – fish varieties such as pangasius and sugar substitutes are becoming more and more popular – should be taken into account in the German total diet study. For the communication of the study, the BfR MEAL team presented projects for the target group-friendly processing of results, on which a lively exchange with the Advisory Board members also took place.

The next meeting of the International Advisory Board of the BfR MEAL Study is scheduled to take place next year.

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