AGENDA & PRESENTATIONS
| Sunday, March 30
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| 6:00- 7:00 pm
7:00-10:00 pm |
Welcome reception (Hosted by FFI Partners)
Dinner |
Resort Deck
Waterside
Room 5 |
| Monday, March 31
|
| 6:30-8:30 am |
Breakfast |
Waterside Room 5 |
8:30 am |
Group Photo
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|
Rotunda Room |
Plenary Session I
Co-Chairs: Scott Montgomery and Liz Turner
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| 9:00 am |
Welcome and introductions (Scott Montgomery and Bill Dietz)
(15 mins)
PowerPoint Presentation
Multimedia Presentation
(Must view using Internet Explorer)
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Rotunda Room |
| 9:15 am |
Development agency messages (5 mins each):
UNICEF, WHO, FAO, WFP, MI,GAIN (30 mins)
(Brief statement from each agency regarding its position related to flour fortification and how
it will utilize the consensus recommendations reached)
Multimedia Presentation
(Must view using Internet Explorer)
| Rotunda Room |
| 9:45 am |
Update on FFI and global progress on wheat flour fortification
(30 mins for presentation and discussion) (Glen Maberly)
PowerPoint Presentation
Multimedia Presentation
(Must view using Internet Explorer)
|
Rotunda Room |
| 10:15 am |
Coffee Break |
Rotunda Room |
| 10:45 am |
Overview of workshop planning, purpose, objectives, and ground rules
(Abe Parvanta) (30 mins)
Presentation |
Rotunda Room |
| 11:15 am |
Existing standards for fortification of wheat
and corn flour and flour products - fortification (Peter Ranum)
(30 mins for presentation and discussion)
(A review of the current worldwide fortification standards and practices for wheat flour and maize
(corn) meal, comparing the similarities and differences, and their importance to world diets)
PowerPoint Presentation
Multimedia Presentation
(Must view using Internet Explorer)
|
Rotunda Room |
| 11:45 am |
Overview of premix manufacturers’ best practice guidelines, and feasibility of standard premix formulations (Peter Ranum) (15 mins for presentation)
(Presentation of a set of best or recommended practices by premix companies that have been
developed under the Flour Fortification Initiative.)
Presentation
|
Rotunda Room |
| 12:00 pm |
Overview of premix manufacturers’ best practice guidelines,
and feasibility of standard premix formulations (Peter Ranum)
(15 mins for presentation)
(Presentation of a set of best or recommended practices by premix companies
that have been developed under the Flour Fortification Initiative.)
Presentation
|
Rotunda Room |
| 12:15 pm |
Discussion on proposed premix manufacturers' and millers
best practice guidelines (15 mins)
(Short period for questions and comments from audience)
|
Rotunda Room |
| 12:30-1:45 pm |
Lunch |
Waterside Room 5 |
Plenary Session II
Co-Chairs: Venkatesh Mannar and Mary-Elizabeth Reeve
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| 2:00 pm |
Overview of process of preparing background documents - Workgroup
Leaders' Panel (5 mins each)
(Brief summary of steps taken by each Expert Workgroup to draft background documents and proposed recommendations)
- Iron group - Richard Hurrell
Presentation
- Zinc group – Ken Brown
Presentation
- Vit. A group – Keith West
- Folic acid group – R.J. Berry
Presentation
- Vit. B-12 group – Lindsay Allen
Presentation
- Estimating fortifiable flour consumption group – Rafael Flores
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Rotunda Room |
| 2:30 pm |
Estimating per capita consumption of fortifiable flour
(Rafael Flores) (60 mins for presentation and discussion)
(Presentation on issues and approaches to estimating per capita
consumption of "fortifiable" flour in a country)
PowerPoint Presentation
Multimedia Presentation
(Must view using Internet Explorer)
|
Rotunda Room |
| 3:30 pm |
Vitamin and mineral consumption: importance of differentiating between
dietary supplements and fortified foods (RJ Berry)
(30 mins for presentation and discussion)
(Presentation, using NHANES data, on the importance of differentiating between the contributions of vitamin/mineral supplements vs. fortified foods toward overall nutrient status of a population)
|
Rotunda Room |
| 4:00 pm
4:15 pm
|
Coffee Break including:
Demonstration on how to determine the content of added iron in flour fortified with ferric
sodium EDTA
(Carel Wreesmann and Huo Jungshen) (45 minutes)
Wreesmann Presentation
Jungshen Presentation
|
Rotunda Room |
| 4:15 pm |
Expert Workgroup meetings as needed (workgroup members only) (60 mins)
(Space will be available for authors of workshop background documents to use as needed)
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Breakout Rooms |
| 6:00-7:00 pm |
Workshop Steering Committee Meeting (for Steering Committee Members only) |
Rotunda Room |
| 6:00-10:00 pm |
Buffet Dinner |
Waterside Room 5 |
| Tuesday, April 1
|
| 6:30-8:30 am |
Breakfast |
Waterside Room 5 |
Plenary Session III
- Reports of Expert Workgroups
Co-Chairs: Omar Dary and TBD
|
| 8:30 am |
Introduction to session – Chair
(Brief introduction to morning session)
|
Rotunda Room |
| 8:40 am |
Flour fortification with iron: Workgroup report
(65 mins for presentation and discussion)
PowerPoint Presentation
Multimedia Presentation
(Must view using Internet Explorer)
(Summary of the key scientific and technical considerations related to fortification of
low and high extraction flours with iron, and presentation of draft recommendations of the
Expert Workgroup, followed by 30 - 35 mins of open discussion)
|
Rotunda Room |
| 9:45 am |
Coffee Break |
Rotunda Room |
| 10:15 am |
Flour fortification with folic acid: Workgroup report (65 mins for presentation and discussion; 5 mins to seat next panel)
Presentation
(Summary of the key scientific and technical considerations related to fortification of low and high extraction flours with folic acid, and
presentation of draft recommendations of the Expert Workgroup, followed by 30 - 35 mins of open discussion)
|
Rotunda Room |
| 11:25 am |
Flour fortification with Vit A: Workgroup report
(65 mins for presentation and discussion)
PowerPoint Presentation
Multimedia Presentation
(Must view using Internet Explorer)
(Summary of the key scientific and technical considerations related to fortification of low
and high extraction flours with Vit. A, and the draft recommendations of the Expert Workgroup,
followed by 30 - 35 mins of open discussion)
|
Rotunda Room |
| 12:30-1:45 pm |
Lunch |
Waterside Room 5 |
| 2:00 pm |
Simultaneous Breakout Sessions - discuss and finalize
recommendations (90 mins)
(Smaller group discussion and debate on scientific and technical aspects of fortifying flour and
flour products with each target nutrient based on the content of the background documents so as
to achieve consensus recommendations for fortifying flour)
- Iron fortification – Richard Hurrell
- Folic acid fortification – R.J. Berry
- Vitamin A fortification – Keith West
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Iron:
Ballroom Salon E
Folic Acid: Ballroom Salon F
Vitamin A: Ballroom Salon G
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| Participants will be assigned to
different breakout sessions. Every effort will be made, but not guaranteed, to assign participants
to different sessions based on their top choices. |
| 3:30 pm |
Coffee Break |
Rotunda Room |
| 4:00 pm |
Breakout Session - Millers' Best Practice Guidelines
(75 mins) Chair - Quentin Johnson
Presentation
(Session primarily targeted to milling and premix industry participants to discuss,
debate and achieve consensus on the proposed Millers Best Practice Guidelines)
|
Rotunda Room |
| 6:15 pm |
Paddle Boat Dinner Cruise on Stone Mountain Lake
(Hosted by FFI Partners - 3 hours)
|
Meet at Boat Pavilion promptly at 6:15 pm |
| Wednesday, April 2
|
| 6:30-8:30 am |
Breakfast |
Waterside Room 5 |
Plenary Session IV
- Reports of Expert Workgroups
Co-Chairs: Francesco Branca and Brian Thompson
|
| 8:30 am |
Introduction to session - Chair |
Rotunda Room |
| 8:40 am |
Flour fortification with zinc: Workgroup report
(65 mins for presentation and discussion)
PowerPoint Presentation
Multimedia Presentation
(Must view using Internet Explorer)
(Summary of the key scientific and technical considerations related to
fortification of low and high extraction flours with zinc, and presentation of draft recommendations
of the Expert Workgroup, followed by 30 - 35 mins of open discussion)
|
Rotunda Room |
| 9:45 am |
Coffee Break |
Rotunda Room |
| 10:15 am |
Flour fortification with Vit. B-12: Workgroup report and discussion
(60 mins for presentation and discussion)
PowerPoint Presentation
Multimedia Presentation
(Must view using Internet Explorer)
(Summary of the key scientific and technical considerations related to fortification of
low and high extraction flours with Vit. B-12, and presentation of draft recommendations of the
Expert Workgroup, followed by 30 - 35 mins of open discussion)
|
Rotunda Room |
| 11:15 am |
Breakout Session - Premix Manufacturer’s Best Practice Guidelines (75 mins)
Chair - Peter Ranum
Presentation
(Session primarily targeted to milling and premix industry participants to discuss, debate and achieve consensus on the proposed Premix
Manufacturers’ Best Practice Guidelines)
|
Rotunda Room |
| 12:30-1:45 pm |
Lunch |
Waterside Room 5 |
| 2:00 pm |
Simultaneous Breakout Sessions - discuss and finalize
recommendations
- Zinc fortification – Ken Brown
- Vit. B-12 fortification – Lindsay Allen
(Smaller group discussion and debate on scientific and technical aspects of fortifying flour and flour products with each target nutrient based on the content of the background documents so as to achieve consensus recommendations for fortifying flour)
|
Zinc:
Ballroom Salon F
Vitamin B-12: Ballroom Salon G
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| Participants will be assigned to
different breakout sessions. Every effort will be made, but not guaranteed, to assign participants
to different sessions based on their top choices. |
| 3:30 pm |
Coffee Break |
Rotunda Room |
Plenary Session V
- Achieving Consensus Recommendations
Co-Chairs: William Dietz and Regina Moench-Pfanner
|
| 4:00 pm |
Present and finalize consensus recommendations from breakout discussion on zinc fortification (30 mins. for presentation and discussion)
(note: Zinc group will have to prepare presentation during coffee break)
|
Rotunda Room |
| 4:30 pm |
Present and finalize consensus recommendations from breakout discussion on
Vit. A fortification (30 mins. for presentation and final discussion
Vitamin A Recommendations
|
Rotunda Room |
| 5:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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| Thursday, April 3
|
| 6:30-8:30 am |
Breakfast |
Waterside Room 5 |
Plenary Session VI
- Achieving Consensus Recommendations
Co-Chairs: Larry Grummer-Strawn and Anna Verster
|
| 8:30 am |
Introduction to session (Chair) (10 mins) |
Rotunda Room |
| 8:40 am |
Present and finalize consensus recommendations from breakout discussion
on iron fortification (30 mins. for presentation and final discussion; 5 mins to seat next panel)
PowerPoint Presentation
Multimedia Presentation
(Must view using Internet Explorer)
|
Rotunda Room |
| 9:15 am |
Present and finalize consensus recommendations from breakout discussion
on folic acid fortification (30 mins for presentation and final discussion; 5 mins to seat next panel)
Folic Acid Fortification Guidelines
Multimedia Presentation
(Must view using Internet Explorer)
|
Rotunda Room |
| 9:50 am |
Present and finalize consensus recommendations from breakout discussion
on vit. B-12 fortification (30 mins for presentation and discussion)
PowerPoint Presentation
Multimedia Presentation
(Must view using Internet Explorer)
|
Rotunda Room |
| 10:20 am |
Coffee Break |
Rotunda Room |
| 10:50 am |
Premix manufacturers' and millers' best practices to support successful
flour fortification (30 mins for presentation and discussion; 5 mins to seat next panel)
PowerPoint Presentation
Multimedia Presentation
(Must view using Internet Explorer)
(Summarize the recommendations related to best practice guidelines)
|
Rotunda Room |
| 11:25 am |
Agency remarks (5 mins each) – CDC, UNICEF, WHO, FAO, WFP,
MI, GAIN (30 mins)
(Brief comment on how each agency will utilize the consensus recommendations)
Multimedia Presentation
(Must view using Internet Explorer)
|
Rotunda Room |
| 12:00 pm |
Closing remarks, including plans for dissemination of
workshop documents and outcome (Glen Maberly, Ibrahim Parvanta)
|
Rotunda Room |
| 12:30 |
Adjourn and Lunch |
Waterside Room 5 |
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