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
Course summary
- 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.
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.

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