Go Organic, New Feature at Salima fair

SALIMA, a major food industry fair in the Czech Republic will feature Go Organic! A new category at its 2008 edition, to take place in the Czech city of Brno this coming March.

The SALIMA International Food Fair, held along with three related events March 4-7, is a major business-to-business event for the food industry in the European region, including various levels of the food industry chain in the Czech and Slovak Republics, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and Austria.

International firms will also be present. The 2006 SALIMA event attracted about 40,000 visitors from 60 countries and 1,000 exhibitors from 40 countries, according to the fair organizer.

Organics is not entirely new at this Czech fair, with various companies having exhibited organic offerings before. The fair’s organizers have been co-operating with Pro-Bio, the Czech organization for organic farmers, since 2004.

In 2008, though, organics will be a focus of the fair’s Trends project and will have its own category, Go Organic! Organizers also plan to give an award to the best Czech organic product of 2007.

A special one-day session for those involved in public catering, especially industry businesspeople and government planners servicing public health and education systems, is scheduled for March 5. The session “Organic food in public catering - health and sustainability on a plate” will feature examples of best practices from other European countries.

Planned speakers at the session include Silvana Sari, head of Rome’s education department who will describe how 150,000 school meals in Rome are cooked with organic ingredients each school day. Joanna Collins will speak about the Food for Life Project, which works with organic food in British schools. Another speaker will be the head of a project that has brought local organic food to a German hospital.

The four joint fairs - the SALIMA International Food Fair, the MBK milling, bakery and confectionery fair, the INTECO hospitality equipment fair and the VINEX International Wine Fair - are held every second year. The first SALIMA fair was held in 1974.

For more: www.salima.eu

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