City Food Lecture to debate organic food
Thursday 3 August 2006
The 2007 City Food Lecture will be sponsored for the first time by the Food Standards Agency. The keynote speaker will be Lord Peter Melchett (pictured) of the Soil Association, who will talk about organic food.
This annual event attracts an audience of 600 top food and drink figures from across the UK and will take place on the evening of 23 January 2007 at the Guildhall in the City of London.
‘Sales of organic food are growing rapidly and this will be a chance to debate the significance of its increasing popularity.’
The Agency's Deirdre Hutton will chair proceedings. Following the lecture, a panel of experts will debate the issues raised by Peter Melchett with the audience.
Deirdre Hutton, who is Chair of the FSA, says: 'We are extremely pleased to announce that Peter Melchett will be the keynote speaker at the 2007 City Food Lecture. Sales of organic food are growing rapidly and this will be a chance to debate the significance of its increasing popularity.
'The City Food Lecture is an excellent opportunity to bring together representatives from the various interest groups – including industry, consumers and campaigners – for an open, lively and challenging debate about organic food.'
Chair of the 2007 organising committee, Laurence Olins, adds: 'Peter Melchett's acceptance to speak at the 2007 City Food Lecture continues the tradition, since the inaugural lecture in 2000, of attracting very senior figures from the food industry to address us on highly topical issues.'
Further details of the lecture, including names of the panellists will be announced at a later date.
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