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DISTRIBUTED TO OVER 4,000 CONTACTS IN THE F&F INDUSTRY WORLD INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF ESSENTIAL OILS & AROMA TRADES NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE • SEPTEMBER 2016 2016 IFEAT CONFERENCE 25-29 SEPTEMBER, DUBAI WELCOME TO DUBAI! Dear Friends, learn more about these unique products. Delegates will nonetheless dispose of ample precious time to catch up Marhaba fi Dubai! with their meetings and networking over the last two days solely dedicated to an Exhibition and networking in the I am very pleased and honoured to Madinat Jumeirah Conference Centre where some 50 welcome you to Dubai for the 2016 companies will be exhibiting their latest products IFEAT Conference. This year's (Wednesday and Thursday) and 50 additional companies will conference title – “The Middle East: welcome you in their Meeting Rooms (Monday through to Hussein A Fakhry Challenges at the historical Thursday). crossroads of the F&F industry” – proved to be quite fitting for the city of superlatives: registrations had Before you leave for Dubai, do consider making use of the exceeded 1200 by 1st September. This makes it by far our Marhaba Services to scoot you through passport control largest conference ever, and is a sign that our industry is with its meet & greet service from the aircraft’s door upon growing. IFEAT plays a central role in allowing producers, arrival. Check the IFEAT website for more information traders and users to simply meet and interact in one place, on this. unencumbered. From my side, in looking forward to This year’s conference is innovating in more ways than one. meeting you all in Dubai, I would like to thank from the It is meeting for the first time in peninsular Arabia covering bottom of my heart my mates (sailor’s accent, please!) products from this region or used locally which had never aboard the Dubai Organising Committee (whether IFEAT been reported on previously in their very context (e.g. Staff, Service Suppliers, or Directors) for having been frankincense, myrrh, opoponax, oudh (agarwood), oriental tirelessly present by my side in organizing this Conference: perfumery, …), with reports on sourcing and sustainability. ana’ mutashaker leekom lil abad! (yes! you got it right: I am This will be articulated through a shorter, more eternally thankful to you!) concentrated lecture program over the first two days only of the Conference. That way, delegates will be allowed to Hussein A. Fakhry dedicate some of their time away from their business Chairman of the 2016 Dubai Conference Committee meetings to attend these exceptional presentations and IFEAT Study Tour to USA Another very successful IFEAT Study Tour took place in the USA from 13th to 21st August visiting Texas, the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest. Some 47 IFEAT members from 20 countries participated, visiting six IFEAT member companies as well as several other companies. A report on the Tour will be presented in Dubai and in the next edition of IFEATWORLD. See details on back page for the 2017 IFEAT Study Tour. 1 IFEATIFEAT CONFERENCE EDUCATION NEWS IFEAT EDUCATION IFEAT sponsors two educational courses run separately through the UK universities of Reading and Plymouth. The Flavourist Course is run by the University of Reading and the distance learning programme, in which participants study for the IFEAT Diploma (Fragrance or Flavour), is run by the International Centre for Aroma Trades Studies (ICATS) based at the University of Plymouth. Each year a Best Student is nominated from each course, and we shall be pleased to welcome both of the 2016 Best Students to Dubai in September. Flavourist Course IFEAT/ICATS Distance Another highly successful Flavourist Training Course was Learning Course held from 3rd to 20th May 2016, It has been another eventful year with thirteen participants from for ICATS, with numerous events eleven countries. They were an and a steady flow of new enthusiastic and highly motivated students signing up to its courses. group who returned home with They are an international cohort, increased knowledge and skills that Nicole Pabi employed across the value chain. will greatly benefit their careers in the A range of companies are flavouring industry. The course aims to provide represented: aroma producers, an understanding of the flavour characteristics of a wide range of aroma compounders, end-users and academia; Zohra Khaliq compounds and essential oils and teaches how they can be whilst students’ roles include evaluation, incorporated into food flavourings. The emphasis is on practical creative flavourists and perfumers, technicians, sales and management. participation in flavour creation and the success of the course lies in the This year saw the uptake for the Flavour Pathway overtake Perfumes for tutoring given by four highly experienced flavourists. the first time since its introduction. Some excellent dissertations have been received this year on a diverse range of subjects, show-casing a Since this IFEAT-sponsored course started in 2002, over 140 young bright industry future for our students in expertise and innovation. flavourists and food scientists from all over the world have participated. It is primarily designed for graduates working in the flavour or food Following an active year, attending as many events as possible, including industries seeking to upgrade their skills. It is unique, with no other the 2015 IFEAT Conference in Sri Lanka, ICATS reports that a number course like it being offered anywhere else in the world, which accounts of new additions to the course are underway. These include a Critical for its international appeal and increasing popularity. Thinking module, whilst Perfume Applications has been updated and Regulatory Affairs is under revision. This year, the IFEAT award for Best Student was given to Nicole Pabi from Red Bull GmbH in Austria. Nicole studied Chemistry at the Graz Zohra Khaliq, who works as a Development Chemist for the University of Technology where she was working on the development Aromatherapy Associates Group in the UK, has been nominated as the of analytical measurement techniques. Since 2014 she has worked for IFEAT/ICATS Diploma (Perfumery) Student of the year for 2016. Red Bull GmbH in the product development department and is in Zohra’s current responsibilities range from technical new product charge of the development of new methods and products. development through to the operational delivery. “The Flavourist Training Course provided a huge input for new ideas and “The IFEAT programme has allowed me to combine my day to day work helped me to further expand my fundamental knowledge about chemistry challenges and further understand standard industry practices,” said Zohra. and flavours,” Nicole told IFEATWORLD. “It also gave detailed insights “Working within a relatively small organisation allowed me to expand my into topics such as legislation, reaction flavours and flavour degradation. In knowledge and consolidate my industry learnings to date. Although a highly the first week, we received a lot of theoretical lectures and we had many challenging experience I am grateful for the knowledge I have gained within practical sessions which covered the sensory evaluation of a huge set of this specialist field. The course allows you to gain an overall understanding substances. The following week contained legislation aspects, reaction of the aroma trades industry, and all elements proved to be highly valuable flavours and their chemistry behind it, as well as the importance and the to myself. Working within the field requires a personality of ongoing enormous variety of essential oils. In the last week the acquired knowledge dedication to continue learning, paying special reference to both analytical was applied to flavour creations and formulations. Besides the acquired and creative techniques. I feel truly privileged to work within this field, due to knowledge, it is above all the wonderful people I have met on this course its unique ‘two tone’ outlook, combining both scientific and artistic principles who made these three weeks quite special.” in the work environment.” The 2017 Flavourist Course will be held on 2-19 May. Most of Further information on the IFEAT/ICATS course can be the places on this course have already been taken so early obtained from the ICATS website, application for the remaining places is essential. The course www.icatsaromaeducation.com, or by email will be run again in May 2018. More information can be found at: ([email protected]). www.reading.ac.uk/food/shortcourses/foodbio-flavourist.aspx 3 WWhere Art & Scieience Meet IFEAT ACTIVITIES IFEAT at 40 By Peter Greenhalgh, Consultant to IFEAT Next year will be IFEAT’s 40th birthday. The next four issues of IFEATWORLD will have articles on various aspects of IFEAT’s history, culminating in the publication of a book. IFEAT was international from the very beginning. The causal factor was the shipment to Europe and the USA of substantial quantities of drums filled with water rather than Indonesian essential oils. There quickly the first conference in followed a series of steering committee meetings in London involving Bangalore in 1979, at which traders, brokers and users of essential oils from around the world. This approximately 50 non- led to IFEAT’s birth in Kyoto, Japan in October 1977 at the 7th Indian delegates International Congress on Essential Oils, where the presidents and participated, the annual members of American, French, Japanese and other associations gave IFEAT Conference has their support to the London Steering Committee’s idea. A "World grown into one of the Council" was established to govern IFEAT on which there were major events on the F&F members from 18 countries. calendar, now attended by over 1,000 delegates from over The aims of the new Association were: 50 countries. This is a unique a. To promote international trade achievement and no other organisation b. To agree terms of business worldwide for the settlement of disputes in our industry can boast such an active Ron Neal, who passed away c.