The Organic Center’s Chief Scientist Dr. Chuck Benbrook, Ph.D., will be a featured speaker at the upcoming annual convention of the American Dietetic Association on Oct. 25-28 in Chicago. According to Dr. Benbrook, it is an excellent opportunity to educate nutrition professionals who are becoming increasingly interested in the health and nutritional benefits of organic food, and who have an influence on a greater part of the population.

Dr. Benbrook also has accepted an invitation to give the Rachel Carson Memorial Lecture sponsored by the Pesticide Action Network-U.K.  The event occurs Dec. 4, 2008, in London at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Chuck is working on scheduling other events during his trip to the U.K.  He has been invited by scientists at the University of Newcastle to do two seminars, one on the Center’s organic food quality research, and a second on the impacts and future direction of biotechnology in U.S. agriculture.

Additionally, The Organic Center’s Development Director, Seleyn DeYarus, will speak on organic and sustainability at the University of Minnesota as part of a conference produced by the university’s Austrian Studies program. The event, Global Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture, and Bioresources: Challenges, Opportunities, and Choices, will take place on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota on Sept. 26, 2008. Seleyn will speak on a panel with Horst Rechelbacher, founder of Intelligent Nutrients and Aveda. Horst has lived for many years in the U.S. and is a native of Austria.