On September 12-13, 2018, an International Symposium on Nutrition was held in Tbilisi, and its slogan was: “Nutrition and health – current developments”. The Symposium was opened at Medical University and next day it was hosted by Georgian Academy of Agricultural Sciences. 

          The Session at the Academy was opened by its President, Academician Guram Aleksidze who welcomed the foundation of the Association which will control problems of nutrition in Georgia. The presenter pointed out that one of the six scientific departments functioning at the Academy – “Food safety and food technology” - also deals with the problems related to nutrition and safety of products. The Scientific Department is directed by Academician of GAAS Zurab Tskitishvili who controls and immediately gives due assessment to the problems which emerge regularly in this area to protect Georgian population from any hazards connected with food safety and nutrition.  

 The Syposium was attended by the representatives of the organizations working in this field and the specialists among whom there were the academicians of GAAS, researchers from Great Britain and Irland who delivered their presentations. The following persons took part in the discussion: Academician Z. Tskitishvili, Professors R. Gvamichava, K. Dadiani, Sh. Zarnadze, Nata Kakabadze, the Head of G. Natadze Scientific- Research Institute of Sanitary, Hygiene and Medical Ecology, and others. Manana Gobejishvili, the member of British Association of Nutrition was unanimously elected by the Meeting as the Head of Georgian Society of Nutrition, who thanked the Symposium participants and expressed her belief that the work carried out by the Society will be fruitful and will support the development of different branches of science connected with nutrition.