CORESTA is holding an agro-phyto webinar on “Low Nicotine Tobacco—Current Insight and Perspectives for the Agricultural Production of Raw Materials.”
The webinar will be held on Dec. 5, 2023, from 2 p.m. CET to 3:30 p.m. CET. The registration deadline is Dec. 4, 2023.
“This webinar seeks to highlight our current understanding of low nicotine production capabilities as well as the successes and failures of applied research in the areas of genetics and agronomy,” according to CORESTA.
Registration has opened for the 2022 Coresta Congress Online.
Scheduled for Oct. 10–28, the Coresta Congress Online will comprise 26 sessions and more than 140 presentations.
The daily sessions will focus on a specific topic area, and each prerecorded presentation will be followed by a live Q&A session with the presenters.
Videos will be available for replay after the event, and the presentations will be published on the Coresta website.
The registration deadline is Sept. 25, 2022.
Huub Vizee, based in Austria, will retire from his position as head of regulatory and corporate affairs at Delfort on March 31.
Vizee started at Delfort in Austria as head of regulatory affairs in September 2011. In 2020, he became head of regulatory and corporate affairs. In this role, he dealt with tobacco-related regulatory developments worldwide, advised the R&D department and represented Delfort on the Coresta board of directors.
From 2014 to 2016, Vizee served as vice president of the Coresta board of directors, and from 2016 to 2018, he served as its president. He has been a member of the GTNF advisory board since 2015.
Vizee worked in the tobacco industry for 35 years in areas such as leaf, research, engineering, quality assurance, product development and corporate affairs.
Prior to joining Delfort in September 2011, he worked for Van Nelle, Douwe Egberts and Imperial Tobacco, where his last position was head of group regulatory development. In this role, he was responsible for leading Imperial Tobacco’s regulatory engagement as an active participant on a global, regional and market level. Vizee also represented Imperial Tobacco on the boards of the Confederation of European Community Cigarette Manufacturers, the European Cigar Manufacturers Association and Coresta.
According to Vizee, working in the tobacco industry has been interesting, challenging, entertaining and incredibly rewarding. “The best thing about working in the tobacco industry was being [a] member of a large family and having an astonishing network all over the world in which everybody is equal, appreciates each other and where friendships last forever,” he reflects.
Upon retirement, Vizee plans to move back to his native Netherlands.
The 2022 Coresta Congress will take place online Oct. 10–28.
The event will comprise daily, two-hour sessions or workshops (1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Central European Time) focused on a specific topic area with pre-recorded 10 minute to 12 minute oral presentations followed by a live Q&A with the presenters.
Coresta’s Agronomy & Leaf Integrity and Phytopathology & Genetics study groups are soliciting the submission of papers relating to sustainability in tobacco leaf production, low nicotine, leaf chemistry, crop and environmental protection, genetics and plant breeding and supply chain integrity.
The organization’s Smoke Science and Product Technology study groups are encouraging the submission of abstracts presenting scientific research related to conventional tobacco products and potentially reduced harm next-generation products such as e-cigarettes, heated-tobacco products and novel oral products containing tobacco-derived nicotine.
The abstract submission deadline is May 20.
For more information, visit www.coresta.org/events/coresta-congress-2022-35938.html.