1. DG ResearchEuropean Commission 1 Epidemiology of food related diseases and allergies FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY DG RTD/E.2/RDA - 23/10/02 Objectives The objective is to examine the complex interactions between food intake and metabolism, immune system, genetic background and environmental factors to identify key risk factors and develop common European databases

2. DG ResearchEuropean Commission 2 Epidemiology of food related diseases and allergies FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY DG RTD/E.2/RDA - 23/10/02 Production systems: Agriculture Fisheries Aquaculture Processing Safe, high-quality foods Health and well-being of consumers Food intake Environ- mental factors From Fork to Farm From Farm to Fork

3. DG ResearchEuropean Commission 3 Epidemiology of food related diseases and allergies FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY DG RTD/E.2/RDA - 23/10/02 Human Being Food/Diet Environmental Factors Agriculture Fisheries From Farm to Fork From Fork to Farm e.g. chemicals, water, allergens Food Chain

4. DG ResearchEuropean Commission 4 Epidemiology of food related diseases and allergies FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY DG RTD/E.2/RDA - 23/10/02 Food intake Health and well-being of consumers

5. DG ResearchEuropean Commission 5 Epidemiology of food related diseases and allergies FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY DG RTD/E.2/RDA - 23/10/02 Epidemiological studies of the effect of diet, food composition and lifestyle factors on the health of consumers => 6specific population groups (e.g. children); 6specific diseases (e.g. metabolic disorders, allergies) Methodologies for measuring and analysing food composition and dietary intake; Influences of genetic variability (e.g. trhough advances in functional genomics).

6. DG ResearchEuropean Commission 6 Epidemiology of food related diseases and allergies FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY DG RTD/E.2/RDA - 23/10/02 Food intake Food metabolism Immune system Environment Genetic background Identification of key risk factors Development of databases

7. DG ResearchEuropean Commission 7 Epidemiology of food related diseases and allergies FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY DG RTD/E.2/RDA - 23/10/02 Topics derived from EoI selected by priority 5 experts Validated food information database for Europe Gene-nutrient interaction Epidemiology of food allergy Lipid metabolism and chronic diseases Influence of nutrition and lifestyle

8. DG ResearchEuropean Commission 8 Epidemiology of food related diseases and allergies FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY DG RTD/E.2/RDA - 23/10/02 Sources of information: Decision 1513/2002/EC on FP6 => http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/dat/2002/l_232/l_ 23220020829en00010033.pdf Specific programmes of FP6 => http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/fp6/pdf/11385- 2_en.pdf Report on the Analysis of Expressions of Interest 2002 => http://www.cordis.lu/fp6/eoi-analysis.htm

9. DG ResearchEuropean Commission 9 Epidemiology of food related diseases and allergies FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY DG RTD/E.2/RDA - 23/10/02 Rosanna DAmario E-mail: rosanna.damario@cec.eu.int Phone: +32-2-2984374 Alkmini Katsada E-mail: alkmini.katsada@cec.eu.int Phone: +32-2-2956926 Unit E-2, Research DG, European Commission