Dr. Mindy Brashears, Under Secretary for Food Safety, USDA and Dr. Donald A. Prater, Principal Deputy Director for Human Foods, FDA will present at the Food Safety Hazards Conference, April 20-22 in St. Louis MO. The format is a fireside chat with a town hall Q&A, moderated by Brian Ronholm, Director of Food Policy, Consumer Reports.
The Food Safety Hazards Conference will take place April 20-22 in St. Louis MO. The Program starts on Monday April 20 at 12 pm which leads into two full days of high-level panel discussions and educational presentations concluding Wednesday, April 22 at 12 noon CST. Presentations include:
* Regulators in the Spotlight: FDA & USDA’s Vision for Safer Food
* Practical Pathogen Control Strategies for Complex Food Operations: Lessons from Real-World Implementation
* Food Allergen Safety – On the Other Side of the Threshold
* Assessing Heavy Metal Risks in Food Systems: A Preventive Food Safety Approach to Protect Public Health
* Forecasting Microbial Behavior: Predictive Tools for Smarter Hazard Analysis
* Transforming Pest Control Through FMEA: A Predictive, Risk-Based Framework for Preventing Food Safety Hazards
* Cybersecurity and Food Safety: HACCP Meets Hacking
* End to End Foreign Material Control: A Practical Guide for Manufactures
* Less Chemicals, More Microbes? The Use of Clean-Label Ingredients to Formulate Processed Meats
* Sanitary Transportation – Bulk Tankers – cross contamination?
* From Known to Reasonably Foreseeable: Rethinking Biological Hazard Identification in Food Safety Programs
* Food Safe Facility Drainage Design
Organized by Food Safety Tech, who also runs the Food Safety Consortium Conference since 2012, the Food Safety Hazards Conference will focus on the detection, mitigation, control and regulations of food safety hazards through technology, best practices and data analytics. The Hazards addresses in the program include Listeria, e-Coli, Salmonella, Allergens, Chemicals and Foreign Matter. The conference scope includes both human and pet foods. The complete agenda, speakers and registration information is on the Food Safety Hazards Conference website.
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