Chairs

Kathryn Wiemer, MS, RD, General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, MN
Johanna Dwyer, DSc., RD, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA

Presentations

• Introduction
• Fortification and Health of the Nation: What it can and can’t do.  Janet King, PhD, RD, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, CA
• U.S. experiences in food fortification.  Christine Taylor, PhD, NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, Bethesda, MD
• Global issues in fortification: What works, what doesn’t?  Omar Dary, PhD, ABT Associates, Bethesda, MD
• The impact of fortification in the U.S. Diet:  A case study in children.  Regan Bailey, PhD, RD, NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, Bethesda, MD
• Discretionary fortification.  Valerie Tarasuk, PhD, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
• Technological Opportunities and Challenges in fortification.  Martin Philbert, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
• Benefit-risk analysis: What is it and why does it matter to fortification?  Carl Keen, PhD, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
• Panel: Moving forward responsibly.  Johanna Dwyer, DSc., RD, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA