Sponsored Satellite Program: Assessing the Safety of Bioactives that Affect the Infant Immune System
Sponsored By: Columbia University
This Sponsored Satellite Program was presented at NUTRITION 2021 LIVE ONLINE.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the processes needed to advance regulatory approvals
- Understand the differences between efficacy and safety in achieving regulatory approvals for bioactives added to infant formula
- Understand how safety factors related to immune function are related to bioactives that are added to infant formula
- Identify gaps and required research related to immune function to better define safety of new bioactives in infant formula
This Sponsored Satellite Program includes the following presentations:
- Introduction
- Special Needs to Assure Safety of Ingredients Intended for Infants; Breastfed Infant Model
- Establishing Reasonable Certainty of No Harm of New Ingredients on the Infant Immune System
- Nutritional Effectors of the Infant Immune System; Some Findings from the Panel
- Microbiota Direction of Immune System Development
- Status of Measures for Immune System Safety
- Panel Discussion
Chair: Richard J. Deckelbaum, MD, CM, FRCP(C) – Robert R. Williams Professor of Nutrition, Columbia University
Chair: John Wallingford, PhD – principal, Nutrispectives, LLC
Speaker: Steven A. Abrams, MD – Professor of Pediatrics, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin
Speaker: Peter Van Dael, PhD, MBA – DSM
Speaker: Catherine J. Field, PhD, RD – Professor, University of Alberta
Speaker: Talal A. Chatila, MD – Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard University
Speaker: Ronald Kleinman, MD – Physician in Chief , MassGeneral Hospital for Children
Available Credit
- 1.50 Attendance
Learners are eligible to download a Certificate of Attendance upon activity completion. A Certificate of Attendance confirms the learner has completed the activity and does not confer any continuing education credit to the learner from ASN.