At the conference, titled “Nuts as part of a healthy diet: evidence and insights from research”, Prof. Linda Tapsell, Senior Professor of School of Medicine of the University of Wollongong, Australia, talked about different health topics in relation to nut consumption and the scientific evidence to date.

This year, the Scientific Seminar invited an expert on allergy as a guest speaker: Dr. Vicki McWilliam, Clinical Allergy Dietitian and Researcher at the Royal Children’s Hospital and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute of Melbourne, Australia.

Today’s Dietitian hosted the 6th Annual Spring Symposium at the Talking Stick Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, on May 19-22, 2019. This continuing education and networking event for dietitians and nutrition professionals featured a diverse program of sessions and workshops plus a variety of opportunities to interact and network with fellow Registered Dietitians in attendance.

A study, recently published in the European Journal of Epidemiology, analyzed the association of maternal nut intake (walnuts, almonds, peanuts, pine nuts and hazelnuts) during pregnancy with child neuropsychological outcomes including child global cognitive functioning, attention and working memory.

India has extended by 30 days for the ninth time in a row the imposition of higher customs duties on 29 products imported from the US, including almonds and walnuts.

The Uganda National Bureau of Standards has notified the World Trade Organization of the “DUS 2123:2019, Full fat groundnut flour – Specification, First Edition”.

On May 15, 2019, UK and Colombia, Ecuador and Peru signed a Trade Continuity Agreement aimed at safeguarding exporters from the impact of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.

On May 13, 2019, China announced an exclusion process for additional tariffs imposed on specific US origin products.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency established tolerances for residues of glufosinate ammonium in or on multiple commodities.