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News Releases Register now for Pests & Diseases 2002 12 August 2002 The programme has been finalised and delegate registrations are now being taken for the British Crop Production Council (BCPC) Conference - Pests & Diseases, to be held in Brighton, UK between 18 - 21 November 2002. The 2002 Conference will open with the 29th Bawden memorial lecture to be presented by Dr Jørgen Schlundt, Co-ordinator of the Food Safety Programme, World Health Organisation (WHO). The lecture will consider recent developments in food production and how pests and disease control have contributed to food safety systems in the developed world and have helped prevent food-borne diseases. "Pests and diseases are this year's Conference theme, and as ever, we have come up with an interesting, varied and topical programme," explains Dr Terry Clark, Chairman of the BCPC Conference Programme Committee. "One of the core topics will be new chemical advances for pest and disease management. It is these sessions which provide organisations with the opportunity to introduce new products and formulations and highlight new techniques which have not previously been reported at scientific meetings or in the scientific literature." Food supply and safety will be addressed from a global perspective complementing the Monday Symposium 'The Global Challenge - Sustainable Food Production'. This special one-day event will consider how the challenges of food production can meet consumers' expectations in terms of safety, nutrition, quality, price, environmental concerns and social issues. Practical approaches and advances in pest and disease control in a wide variety of crops will be explored along with the issue of organic crops, biological control and the potential role of transgenic crops. There will be platform and poster sessions on new technology including topics on plant pathogenic inoculum and neonicotinoid insecticides. Whilst the environmental theme will cover biodiversity in arable ecosystems, integrated crop management (ICM), as well as the fate and effects of pesticides in the environment. On Tuesday 19 November the Marketing Forum, 'Crop Protection under Licence,' is likely to stimulate discussion on the likely measures, either voluntary or mandatory, which will impinge on the everyday routine of spray operators, farmers, their advisers and suppliers as well as many people further up the food chain. New for 2002 is the introduction of two Discussion Fora as part of the actual scientific conference programme. The first of these will pose the question 'Is Field Pathology and Diagnosis a Dying Art? Does it Matter?', whilst the second will consider 'Managed Approaches to Pest Control - Barriers and Constraints'. There will also be two Evening Sessions which provide an opportunity for discussion on crop protection research and information technology. More of an event There will be plenty of opportunity at Pests & Diseases for networking, but you do need to be there to make the most of it. By logging onto the conference website at http://www.bcpc.org/BCPCConference2002/Index.htm, you can register online, book your hotel accommodation and get full details of the conference programme and more. Copies of the Provisional Programme
and Delegate Registration brochure are available from BCPC, 7 Omni
Business Centre, Omega Park, Alton, Hampshire, GU34 2QD, UK.
Tel:+44(0)1420 593 200, Fax: +44(0)1420 593 209 For further information contact: |
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