The 5th Annual Session of the Dietitians’ Association of Sri Lanka (DiASL) 2019 was held on the 6th & 7th of December 2019 at Hotel Miraj, Colombo. The theme of the sessions this year was “Optimizing the Future Excellence in Nutrition and Food Science in Sri Lanka”. Dr. Ananda Chandrasekara, a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Applied Nutrition delivered an important talk on “Where the Latest Science Meet for safe and Healthy Rice”. In addition, there were three panel discussion sessions which enable audience to actively present their questions and views to these speakers. These three sessions were chaired by well qualified academics in the field of nutrition from the Department of Applied Nutrition, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka namely Prof. Renuka Silva, Prof. Anoma Chandrasekara and Dr. Kumari M. Rathnayake.
