Health is set to be a hot topic at the British Society of Baking’s Spring Conference. Two of the keynote speeches at the event will be ’Reducing salt in cakes and biscuits’ and ’Health and well-being’, delivered, respectively, by Dinnie Jordan and Laetitia Rocha.

Jordan runs Kudos Blends, which formulates raising agents with zero or minimal levels of sodium, while Rocha is Holgran’s nutrition innovation manager.

Other speakers at the conference include Finsbury Food Group CEO Dave Brooks, and John Gillespie, who will draw on his experience of 37 years in the baking industry, mainly with Macphie & Co.

The conference is on 19 and 20 March at Campden & Chorleywood Food Research Association in Chipping Campden.

Contact Sharon Byrne on 01869 247098 or bsb@freeuk.com for more information.