Review of the symposium on foreign materials in food, Lucerne, April 8 to 9, 1965

Abstract

An international symposium “Foreign Materials in Food” was held in Lucerne, Switzerland, on April 8 and 9, 1965. It was organized by Professors Drs. H. AEBI (Bern), E. GRAND JEAN (Zürich), and o. HÖGl (Bern), under the auspices of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, the Swiss Society of Research on Nutrition, the Swiss Society of Preventive Medicine, and the Federal Commission for Food, Legislation, and Food Control. Distinguished Swiss and foreign specialists in the matter of food additives were invited to take the floor. Their reports were attended by a large audience and formed the subject of numerous interventions, where various trends and opinions with regard to the admissibility of foreign matters in foodstuffs were confronted.

Owing to the interest of the subject, the Editorial Board of RESIDUE REVIEWS considered it worthwhile to review in summary form this entire symposium, although most of the individual reports were published in extenso in a special issue of the ZEITSCHRIFT für PRÄVENTIV MEDIZIN, vol. 10, part 4, July-August 1965.