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.KeywordsFood AdditivePesticide ResidueForeign MaterialFood ControlSorbic AcidThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.