Cape Town

Event Profile: Food Ingredients Africa is a highly prestigious & respected event - gaining its reputation for delivering a quality audience of high profile food ingredient professionals from all over the world in this dynamic region. Ingredient manufacturers and food producers alike are finding Africa a profitable operational base. Visitor's Profile: Executives from R&D, purchasing, production, marketing & sales, quality assurance and control and general management from: Baby foods, Ice cream & desserts, Bakery products, Confectionery Institutes, Convenience foods, Fats & spreads, Organic foods, Food retailers, Food supplements, Research institutes, Fruit / vegetable products, Snack foods & cereals, Functional and health foods. Exhibitor's Profile: Profile for exhibit include Acidulants Flavours & aromas, Additives Functional foods, Amino acids & derivatives, Fruit products, Bakery products, Herbs, spices, seasonings, Cereals Minerals, Cheese products, Chocolate products, Cocoa products, Organic ingredients, Pasta products, Confectionery products, Dairy Products, Soya products, Spirits, liqueurs & wines, Enzymes, sweeteners & syrups, Fat replacers, Vegetable products, Fats Vinegar, Fibres, dietary Vitamins. Organizer: CMP Information Expoconsult B. V. Trading, P. O. Box 200, 3600, Ae Maarssen, The Netherlands. Tel: +(31)-(346)-559444 Fax: +(31)-(346)-573 811

INECE is pleased to announce that it will hold its 8th International Conference on 5-11 April 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa. INECE’s triennial international conferences bring together environmental compliance and enforcement practitioners from more than 80 countries and organizations to build partnerships for enforcement cooperation and to share a wide range of skills and experiences that improve compliance with international and domestic environmental laws. The 7th Conference (2005) provided training on INECE's principles of compliance and enforcement course and fostered the development of a new compliance and enforcement network for the Maghreb region. The Conference resulted in the Marrakech Statement and Call to Action on making law work for people, environment, and sustainable development. The 8th Conference will open with two days dedicated to local capacity building and networking events. The subsequent five days will feature action-oriented thematic workshops, distinguished keynote speakers, and networking opportunities for over 150 invited participants, and will include a day for field visits to sites of innovative environmental enforcement initiatives in South Africa. Central themes of the Conference will include "Strategic Management of Environmental Compliance & Enforcement Programs," "Detecting Noncompliance," "Transboundary Compliance," "Biodiversity and Compliance," "Climate Change and Compliance," and "Compliance Promotion and Social Aspects." INECE will be releasing a Call for Papers on these and other environmental compliance and enforcement topics in advance of the Conference. South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, which is supporting the Conference, noted that "[e]nvironmental compliance and enforcement are becoming high profile issues in South Africa in the context of high economic growth and development, ...the ongoing protection of our biodiversity and protected areas, and the required adaptation for climate change. We therefore welcome the attention that the INECE Conference will bring to environmental compliance and enforcement in South and Southern Africa." Additional information on the 8th Conference, including the Call for Papers, will be made available in the coming months. Conference participation is by invitation only; nominations will be made through the regional compliance and enforcement networks.

The MRC Unit on Anxiety Disorders is pleased to announce that we will be hosting an International Anxiety Disorders Symposium on 17 and 18 March 2008. The symposium will be organised in conjunction with the International Society for Affective Disorders’ 4th Biennial Conference. The ISAD conference will consist of a series of parallel symposia held over 3 days (14- 17 March) (for further details visit www.isad.org.uk/2008/con_abstract.html ). Mood and anxiety disorders are the most prevalent of all psychiatric disorders, are very disabling and costly, in terms of human suffering as well as economic cost, hence they warrant special attention. Leaders in the field of anxiety and mood disorders will review and discuss the most recent advances in the diagnosis, pathogenesis and treatment of anxiety and mood disorders. The International Anxiety Disorders Symposium will take place at the prestigious Arabella Sheraton in the heart of Cape Town thereby offering ample opportunity for sightseeing. We look forward to welcoming you to Cape Town and to receiving your poster abstract submissions. Organisers: The Mental Health Information Centre The MRC Unit on Anxiety Disorders The Cross University Brain Behaviour Initiative For more details, please refer to www.mentalhealthsa.co.za or contact Arlene Kleinhans at Tel +27 21 938 9229 or mhic@sun.ac.za, SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD Christer Allgulander (Sweden), Kurt Audenaert (Belgium), David Baldwin (UK), Borwin Bandelow (Germany), Donald Black (US), David Castle (Australia), Kathryn Connor (US), Jonathan Davidson (US), Damiaan Denys (Netherlands), Naomi Fineberg (UK), Jean-Pierre Lepine (France), Eric Hollander (US), Donatella Marazziti (Italy), Euripedes Miguel (Brazil), David Nutt (UK), Stefano Pallanti (Italy), Kees van Heeringen (Belgium), Herman Westenberg (Netherlands), Joseph Zohar (Israel). Chairperson: Dan Stein (South Africa)