BCPC PREvIEW 2007
Monday 15 October 2007
Session 1 – Opening Ceromony and the
Keynote addresses
Responsibilities and challenges of modern crop protection
Advances in technology have presented new Tony Hardy, (Science Director, Agri-Environment, Central
responsibilities and challenges for the crop production Science Laboratory, York, UK and Chair of the European
industry. No longer is the prime objective the simple Food Safety Authority Scientific Panel on Plant Protection
goal of efficient crop protection; the effects on the user, Products and their Residues).
consumer and the environment must now be considered
when embarking on any crop protection practice, whether The overall responsibility for crop production rests,
it is research into new molecules for use as crop protection however, with the farmer and grower. He is the person
agents or the development of crop production/protection who, while running a viable business, has to choose
programmes using established materials. the products and digest the information from the crop
protection industry in order to produce the crops in such
The keynote lectures will investigate these challenges. a way, and to such a standard, that the concerns for the
Dr Christian Verschueren, (Director General, CropLife environment and the consumer are met at the same
International, Brussels, Belgium), will address the progress time. These issues will be considered by Simon Browne,
being made by the industry in providing responsible (Meyrick Estates, Winchester, UK).
stewardship for the highly sophisticated products available
to the farmer and grower and how the concerns for Chairman
consumer and environmental safety can be met today and Dr Barry Thomas
in the future. (Chairman BCPC, Alton, UK)
The main concern of the consumer is that of food safety: Session Organiser
how safe is our food and who do you trust to provide the Professor Phil E Russell
answers? These points will be addressed by Professor (Consultant, Cambridge, UK)
This year the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC), Glasgow,
plays host to the International Plant Protection Congress and Exhibition.
SECC layout
Congress delegates and exhibition visitors who have pre-registered can
pick up their badges from the registration desks in the main concourse
Layout at the SECC
of the SECC. Visitors who wish to register on the day should do so at the 1
Concourse – Registrations
same registration desks.
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Loch suite – Congress sessions
The exhibition, hospitality booths, bookshop, cybercafe, meeting areas
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Hall 5 – Exhibition
and delegate refreshments/restaurant are all integrated in Hall 5 of the
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SECC this year.
Hall 5 – Hospitality booths
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Hall 5 – Poster presentations
This year’s congress sessions will all be held in the Loch Suite.
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Leven & Morar SponsoredSuites – commercial seminars
The Crowne Plaza Hotel will once again host many company hospitality
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Crowne Plaza Hotel – hotel accommodation, hospitality
suites and will be a focal point for the informal meetings that make the
suites and 2007 Crop Protection Business Seminar
BCPC event such an important networking opportunity.
Company hospitality suites are also located in other hotels around
Glasgow. For more information on their locations see map on Page 38.
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