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To respond to the demand of organic products for feed (oilmeals, protein crops) and food (oil, dry pulses), organic oilseed and protein crops surfaces are increasing rapidly in France. Terres Univia, the interbranch organisation which represents French oilseed and oil fruit sector and French high protein crops sector interests, carried out a comprehensive 2-year survey in 2016 and 2017 on the different actors of the organic production chain from the collectors to feed and food users. The study showed that organic sector was, at this time, well organized but that it had to face some challenges to meet up with the scale up of organic sectors. Collectors must ensure outlets and prices for producers, accompanying the choice and technical management of production crops. They need to reach a better matched between offer and demand to reduce their logistic cost by, for example, contracting with the producers and the users. Crushers must ensure their cost-effectiveness by enhancing the valuation of co-products (meals for rapeseed and sunflower, oil for soya) and improve their economies of scale. They also strongly rely on grain imports because of a lack of French supplies (rapeseed and soybean particularly). As for feed manufacturers, the new organic regulation for January 2022 brings even more constraints to reach the nutritional need for monogastric.

L’Anses a mis à disposition en accès libre en septembre 2014 l’ensemble des données brutes obtenues dans l’étude individuelle nationale sur les consommations alimentaires 2006–2007 (INCA 2). Terres Univia, a fait réaliser une étude statistique détaillée des apports en acides gras de la population française et de la place des matières grasses végétales dans ces apports. Ces apports ont pu être comparés aux apports nutritionnels conseillés (ANC) pour les acides gras définis par l’Anses en mars 2010. L’étude révèle que, pour la population adulte, l’apport total moyen quotidien en lipides est de 38,0 % de l’apport énergétique total sans alcool (AESA), ce qui est conforme aux ANC (35–40 % de l’AESA). Pour autant, l’analyse détaillée montre que l’apport de certains acides gras est parfois éloigné des valeurs recommandées par l’Anses. Il est donc important de savoir choisir ses matières grasses. En septembre 2015, l’Anses a publié son propre rapport sur les apports en acides gras de la population vivant en France et leur comparaison aux ANC 2010. Les résultats de l’Anses sont semblables à ceux de Terres Univia.

Le 13e congrès EuroFedLipid organisé par la SISSG (Società Italiana per lo Studio delle Sostanze Grasse – Société italienne pour l’étude des lipides et des corps gras) s’est tenu à Florence (Italie) du 27 au 30 septembre 2015. Comme à son habitude, ce congrès a balayé l’ensemble des domaines de la recherche concernant de près ou de loin les lipides avec pas moins de 11 sessions techniques en parallèle. L’objectif de cet article n’est pas de faire un compte-rendu exhaustif mais plutôt de présenter les avancées remarquables dans les sessions suivantes « Processing and sustainability », « Lipid oxidation and antioxidants », « Olive oil », « Health & Nutrition » et « Bioscience, Biocatalysis, Biochemistry ». À noter que Pierre Villeneuve, chercheur au CIRAD et directeur du laboratoire de biotechnologie microbienne et enzymatique des lipides et des agropolymères de l’UMR IATE de Montpellier, a été élu président de l’association Euro Fed Lipid pour la période 2016–2017.

Background: previous studies showed that hospitalized elderly women had low Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) intake and concomitantly showed biochemical indices of essential fatty acid (EFA) insufficiency. Objectives: the Alpha-Linolenage study aimed to improve health parameters of hospitalized very elderly patients, aged 85 years. The objective of the Part I of the Alpha-linolenage study was to assess blood fatty acid status and parameters of metabolic disorders of these patients at the baseline. Design: from 2009 to 2011, 188 patients entering the geriatric department of Emile Roux Hospitals, Île-de-France region, France, were included. Data on the lipid status were obtained through analysis of fatty acid compositions of plasma cholesterol esters and erythrocyte phospholipids. Results: because of our inclusion criteria, there was a high prevalence of CV disease, affecting 74% of our participants. Patients ingested an average of 1586 kcal per day. Fat accounted for 49.2 g/d. Both LA and ALA intakes were not reached, i.e. on average 5 g/d of LA vs. 8–10 g and 1.2 g/d of ALA vs. 2–2.5 g recommended, respectively. The LA and ALA blood status reflected this situation; their contents were lower than those waited under sufficient EFA diet. Conclusion: in very elderly patients a status of chronic disease may generate CV or mortality risk factors. A low fat intake, with both insufficient LA and ALA intakes might favor the harmful role played by de novo lipogenesis, Indeed, a cornerstone of dietary guidelines, i.e. restriction of fat and saturated fat, may be related to risk of disease. The second part of the alpha-linolenage study will aim to improve markers of the metabolic disorders by providing sufficiently lipids.

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