12:20 - 12:50
PANEL Q&AÂ
Mente · Paganini · Chamorro · Drewnowski (chair)Drewnowski
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12:00 - 12:20
Front-of-Pack Warning Labels and Food Taxes: What the Evidence From Chile and Beyond Actually Shows
Prof. Rodrigo Chamorro · University of Chile · Chile
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11:40 - 12:00
The Wrong Target: Why Food-Centric Policies Miss the Real Drivers of Chronic Disease
Dr. Pietro Paganini · President, Competere · Adjunct Professor, Temple University · Policy Strategist · Italy
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11:20 - 11:40
The PURE Study: Dietary Patterns Across 21 Countries and What They Reveal About Food, Processing, and Chronic Disease
Dr. Andrew Mente · Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University · Canada
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SESSION 2Â Â
The Epidemiological Reality: What the Global Population Data Shows
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Chair: Adam Drewnowski · University of Washington
10:55 - 11:20
COFFEE BREAK
10:25 - 10:55
PANEL Q&AÂ
Terra · Ludwig · Mattes · Visioli (chair)Â
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10:05 - 10:25
Consumption of Highly Processed Foods and Obesity: Outstanding Questions About Association and Mechanisms
Prof. Rick Mattes · Purdue University — Distinguished Professor of Nutrition Science · USA
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9:35 - 10:05
SCIENTIFIC KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Macronutrients and Mechanisms — Implications of Imprecision to Public Health Policy
Prof. David S. Ludwig · Harvard Medical School / Boston Children's Hospital · USA
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9:15 - 9:35
The Intellectual Ecosystem of NOVA: From Wendell Berry to Global Regulatory Policy — How a Cultural Movement Became Science
Márcia Terra · NutriInsight, ANAD, SBAN, AND · Brazil
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SESSION 1Â Â
Classifying Food for Public Health:
Historical Context, Scientific Rigor, and Biological Plausibility
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Chair: Francesco Visioli · University of Padova
9:00 - 9:15
Institutional Opening
Prof. Vincenzo Fogliano
Wageningen University · President, EFFoST · Netherlands
15:35 - 16:00
COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 4Â Â
The Chemistry: What Food Science Actually Says
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Chair: Julian McClements · University of Massachusetts
15:05 - 15:35
PANEL Q&AÂ
Donini · Forde · Magkos · Guess (chair)Â
14:45 - 15:05
The RCT Evidence on UPF: What the Trials Actually Show, and What They Don't
Prof. Faidon Magkos · University of Copenhagen · Denmark
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14:25 - 14:45
The Impact of Eating Behaviour and Sensory Properties on Caloric Intake and Metabolic Health; the RESTRUCTURE RCT
Prof. Ciarán Forde · Wageningen University · Netherlands
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14:05 - 14:25
Fu Vera Gloria? (Was It True Glory?) The Case of the Association Between UPFs and Health Status
Prof. Lorenzo Maria Donini · Sapienza University of Rome · Italy
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12:50 - 14:05
LUNCHÂ
SESSION 3Â Â
The Experimental Evidence: What RCTs Actually Prove — and What They Do Not
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Chair: Nicola Guess · University of Oxford
17:40 - 18:10
PANEL Q&AÂ
Henle · Fogliano · Daniel · Socolovsky · Kennedy · McClements (chair)
17:20 - 17:40
Chemophobia: The Irrational Fear of Chemicals, Its Evolutionary Roots, and Its Weaponization in Food Policy
James Kennedy · University of Cambridge graduate; science communicator · Australia
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17:00 - 17:20
Food Additives and JECFA: 70 Years of Rigorous Safety Evaluation — and the Regulatory Contradiction at the Core of NOVA
Dr. Susana Socolovsky · Independent regulatory consultant · Argentina
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16:40 - 17:00
The Case for Abolishing the Term 'ultra-processed food' From Scientific Discourse: The Open Letter and Its Arguments
Prof. Dr. Hannelore Daniel · TU Munich (emerita) · Germany
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16:20 - 16:40
Food Processing, Food Matrix, and Bioavailability: What We Should Actually Measure — and Why NOVA Misses It Entirely
Prof. Vincenzo Fogliano · Wageningen University; President, EFFoST · Netherlands
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16:00 - 16:20
Chemical Transformations in Food Processing: Maillard Reactions, Protein Modifications, and Toxicological Nutritional Significance
Prof. Thomas Henle · TU Dresden · Germany
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