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							Official Program
					
			About this session
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While the role of systematic reviews becomes more fully appreciated, the quality of systematic reviews is inconsistent. As the field of systematic reviews evolves, there are an increasing number of frameworks and approaches that can be used to conduct such comprehensive research.  When conducting systematic reviews there are questions about how to: develop a protocol and PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparator, Outcome) questions, execute a search strategy, manage data, grade the literature, evaluate and manage biases, and ensure transparency of the process. This session will address these components by using a large multi-endpoint systematic review of caffeine which followed the framework of the IOM Report "Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews", as a case study.

There continues to be interest within the scientific community in what is a safe level of caffeine intake and if certain populations should have modified recommendations.  Since the 2003 release of the highly cited and valued review by Nawrot et al., "Effects of caffeine on human health", there have been more than 5,000 articles on the effects of caffeine in humans published, highlighting the need for an update to this body of work.

The Systematic Review of the effects of caffeine on human health took into account the challenges of including nutrition and toxicological evidence. The health endpoints reviewed for caffeine are: acute toxicity, behavior, bone and calcium homeostasis, cardiovascular health, developmental and reproductive toxicity, and pharmacokinetics in three healthy populations.  The session will present the lessons learned and will emphasize the efforts taken to ensure transparency and rigor that allow for the achievement of a high level of scientific quality.  Specific areas of focus will include challenges with identifying and integrating caffeine intakes by level of adversity (e.g., physiological or clinical endpoints), and difficulties in applying standard risk of bias tools across outcomes and endpoints.

Although this session will focus on the Caffeine Systematic Review as a case study, the process, findings, and lessons are relevant to nutrition researchers and professionals who utilize systematic reviews.

Agenda & Videos Expand Welcome
Alison Kretser, MS, RD, IAFNS The Caffeine Landscape - framing the need for the Systematic Review 
Dennis Keefe, PhD, FDA
Video Striving for the Gold Standard in the Systematic Review Process
Esther Myers, PhD, RDN, FAND, EF Myers Consulting
Video The Methodology and Challenges of the Caffeine Systematic Review
Daniele Wikoff, PhD, ToxStrategies
Video Q&A
Moderated by Dennis Keefe, PhD
Video

10:10 - 10:25 Break

General Results of the Systematic Review
Daniele Wikoff, PhD, ToxStrategies
Video

Results of Specific Health Endpoints- Scientific Advisory Board Members

  • Harris Lieberman, US Army - Behavior - Video 
  • Charles O'Brien, University of Pennsylvania - Behavior - Video (See Lieberman for pdf)
  • Jennifer Peck, PhD University of Oklahoma - Reproductive & Developmental Toxicity - Video 
  • Daniele Wikoff on behalf of Jeffrey Goldberger, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine- Cardiovascular - Video 
  • Connie Weaver, PhD, Purdue University - Bone & Calcium - Video 
  • Milton Tenenbein, MD, University of Manitoba - Acute & Pharmacokinetics - Video 
Panel Discussion with the Caffeine Systematic Review Project Team Members Video
Moderated by Dennis Keefe, PhD
Panel includes: 6 of the 7 Scientific Advisory Board members, Daniele Wikoff of ToxStrategies (Scientific Review Team), Alison Kretser of IAFNS (Oversight Committee) Overall Conclusions - presented by Daniele Wikoff
Full session playlist  CoffeeBambooSmall

See IAFNS's other sessions at Experimental Biology 2017:

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Saturday, 22 April 2017
8:30AM - 12:30PM
Ballroom S100BC
Speakers: Dennis Keefe, FDA; Harris Lieberman, USARIEM; Esther Myers, EF Myers Consulting; Charles O'Brien, University of Pennsylvania; Jennifer Peck, University of Oklahoma; Milton Tenenbein, University of Manitoba; Connie Weaver, Purdue University; Daniele Wikoff, ToxStrategies
Supported by the Caffeine Working Group
Session Info & Videos The Changing Brain: How Brain Plasticity, Exercise and Nutrition Affect Function and Cognition
Saturday, 22 April 2017
3:00PM - 5:00PM,
Ballroom S100BC
  • Neurogensis and brain plasticity in the adult brain - Henriette van Praag, National Institute on Aging;
  • The Relation of Exercise, fitness, & Adiposity to Cognitive and Brain Health - Charles Hillman, University of Illinois - Video
  • Neuroinflammatory Processes in Cognitive Disorders - Sophie Laye, Universite Bordeaux - Video
  • Exercise, Nutrition and Brain Funciton: What are the steps toward dietary and physical activity Recommendations? - Mary Ann Johnson, University of Georgia - Video
  • Panel Discussion - Video
Utility of Predictive Modeling for Nutrition Research, Clinical Interventions and Public Health
Sunday, 23 April 2017
8:30AM- 10:30AM
S105BCD
Speakers:
  • Intro to Predictive Modeling: From Linear Regression Models to Mechanistic Mathematical Modeling - David Allison, University of Alabama at Birmingham - Video;
  • Use of Predictive Modeling in the Design of Clinical Studies Kevin Hall, NIDDK - Video;
  • Application of Predictive Modeling in Weight Loss Counseling -  Corby Martin, Pennington Biomedical Research Center - Video;
  • Application of Predictive Modeling in Personalized Nutrition - Ben van Ommen, TNO - Video;
  • Utility of PRedictive Modeling for Public Health Obesity Policies - Emily Dhurandhar, Texas Tech University - Video;
  • Summary and Wrap-Up - Diana Thomas, West Point - Video
    Supported by the Protein Committee
  • Full session playlist
Learning Lab: How to Access and Use a Fiber and Health Outcomes Database for Researchers and Policymakers
Tuesday, 25 April 2017
11:00AM - 12:30PM
S105AB
Speakers: Kara Livingston, Tufts University; Caleigh Sawicki, Tufts University
Supported by the Carbohydrate Committee Posters
Sources of dietary folate/folic acid in women of different races in the United States between 2009 and 2012: What is the role of fortified and enriched products?
PDF
Abstract Number: 6707
Poster Board Number C88
Presenter: Ray DeVirgiliis, George Washington University
Monday, 24 April
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Co-hosted by U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) and the IAFNS Technical Committee on Food & Chemical Safety

This workshop will bring together scientists from government, academia and industry to discuss the advances in testing strategies to reduce animal testing and the need for the development of a standardized approach for use of these alternative methodologies in food safety assessment.

Workshop Proceedings:

State of the Science on Alternatives to Animal Testing and Integration of Testing Strategies for Food Safety Assessments

Read the Proceedings Registration Expand

There is no fee to attend the workshop but, registration is required by Tuesday, February 21. Please register for the workshop using this link: Workshop Registration

Webcast Registration
Register for webcast here: webcast registration
Webcast participants can submit questions online during the event. These will be answered as time allows. Agenda Expand

8:30-8:40 am: Welcome Suzanne Fitzpatrick, FDA Mansi Krishan, IAFNS

8:40-8:55am
Introductory Remarks
Dennis Keefe, FDA
Heidi Bialk, IAFNS Member Scientist 8:55-9:35am
Integrated Testing Strategies in Food Safety
Alan Boobis, Imperial College London [30 mins + 10 mins Q & A] 9:35-10:15am
State of the Science on High Through-Put Screening (HTS): Food Safety Perspective
Nadine Bewry, FDA 10:30-11:10am
Case Studies to Describe the Limitations of Using HTS data in Food Safety Assessment
Rebecca Clewell, ScitoVation 11:10 -11:50am
Identify and Translate Learnings from On-Going Assay Validation Efforts into Standard HTS Testing Practices
Richard Judson, EPA 12:50- 1:30pm
Read Across Approaches: Chemical Structure and Bioactivity Profiling Applicable to Food Safety
Grace Patlewicz, EPA 1:30-2:10pm
FDA Perspective on Read Across Approaches
Tim Adams, FDA 2:10-2:50 pm
Organ on a Chip Technology
Daniel Levner, Emulate 3:05- 4:30pm
Panel Discussion Moderator: Suzanne Fitzpatrick, FDA Panelists:
All speakers, Thomas Hartung, Johns Hopkins University and Katya Tsaioun, Johns Hopkins University 4:30-4:40pm
Concluding Remarks
Suzanne Fitzpatrick
FDA Mansi Krishan, IAFNS Videos Expand

A video of the workshop can be found on the FDA YouTube channel

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While the role of systematic reviews becomes more fully appreciated, the quality of systematic reviews is inconsistent. As the field of systematic reviews evolves, there are an increasing number of frameworks and approaches that can be used to conduct such comprehensive research.  When conducting systematic reviews there are questions about how to: develop a protocol and PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparator, Outcome) questions, execute a search strategy, manage data, grade the literature, evaluate and manage biases, and ensure transparency of the process. This session will address these components by using a large multi-endpoint systematic review of caffeine which followed the framework of the IOM Report "Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews", as a case study.

There continues to be interest within the scientific community in what is a safe level of caffeine intake and if certain populations should have modified recommendations.  Since the 2003 release of the highly cited and valued review by Nawrot et al., "Effects of caffeine on human health", there have been more than 5,000 articles on the effects of caffeine in humans published, highlighting the need for an update to this body of work.

The Systematic Review of the effects of caffeine on human health took into account the challenges of including nutrition and toxicological evidence. The health endpoints reviewed for caffeine are: acute toxicity, behavior, bone and calcium homeostasis, cardiovascular health, developmental and reproductive toxicity, and pharmacokinetics in three healthy populations.  The session will present the lessons learned and will emphasize the efforts taken to ensure transparency and rigor that allow for the achievement of a high level of scientific quality.  Specific areas of focus will include challenges with identifying and integrating caffeine intakes by level of adversity (e.g., physiological or clinical endpoints), and difficulties in applying standard risk of bias tools across outcomes and endpoints.

Although this session will focus on the Caffeine Systematic Review as a case study, the process, findings, and lessons are relevant to nutrition researchers and professionals who utilize systematic reviews.

Agenda & Videos Expand Welcome
Alison Kretser, MS, RD, IAFNS The Caffeine Landscape - framing the need for the Systematic Review 
Dennis Keefe, PhD, FDA
Video Striving for the Gold Standard in the Systematic Review Process
Esther Myers, PhD, RDN, FAND, EF Myers Consulting
Video The Methodology and Challenges of the Caffeine Systematic Review
Daniele Wikoff, PhD, ToxStrategies
Video Q&A
Moderated by Dennis Keefe, PhD
Video

10:10 - 10:25 Break

General Results of the Systematic Review
Daniele Wikoff, PhD, ToxStrategies
Video

Results of Specific Health Endpoints- Scientific Advisory Board Members

  • Harris Lieberman, US Army - Behavior - Video 
  • Charles O'Brien, University of Pennsylvania - Behavior - Video (See Lieberman for pdf)
  • Jennifer Peck, PhD University of Oklahoma - Reproductive & Developmental Toxicity - Video 
  • Daniele Wikoff on behalf of Jeffrey Goldberger, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine- Cardiovascular - Video 
  • Connie Weaver, PhD, Purdue University - Bone & Calcium - Video 
  • Milton Tenenbein, MD, University of Manitoba - Acute & Pharmacokinetics - Video 
Panel Discussion with the Caffeine Systematic Review Project Team Members Video
Moderated by Dennis Keefe, PhD
Panel includes: 6 of the 7 Scientific Advisory Board members, Daniele Wikoff of ToxStrategies (Scientific Review Team), Alison Kretser of IAFNS (Oversight Committee) Overall Conclusions - presented by Daniele Wikoff
Full session playlist  CoffeeBambooSmall

See IAFNS's other sessions at Experimental Biology 2017:

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2021

Science Is Self-Correcting—But the Record Is Not: Building Self-Correction Into the Design of Science

Virtual, Event

In this session, invited speakers will expand upon dialogue from IAFNS’s original “Science is Self-Correcting – But the Record is Not” webinar by exploring how we can achieve an enterprise-wide approach to self-correction that is built into the design of science.

Read more about Science Is Self-Correcting—But the Record Is Not: Building Self-Correction Into the Design of Science

IFT 2021 Annual Meeting

Virtual, Event

Sodium Reduction in Food: Where Are We Now? Extensive debate continues around the best approach for lowering population sodium intake, particularly given that public health campaigns related to labeling and education have had minimal impact. As a result, experts have more recently suggested that sodium reduction in the food supply is the only recourse. This session looks at that and other alternatives to addressing sodium intakes.

Read more about IFT 2021 Annual Meeting

IAFP 2021 Annual Meeting

Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Each year, the International Association for Food Protection hosts an Annual Meeting, providing attendees with information on current and emerging food safety issues, the latest science, innovative solutions to new and recurring problems, and the opportunity to network with thousands of food safety professionals from around the globe.

Read more about IAFP 2021 Annual Meeting

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Each year, the International Association for Food Protection hosts an Annual Meeting, providing attendees with information on current and emerging food safety issues, the latest science, innovative solutions to new and recurring problems, and the opportunity to network with thousands of food safety professionals from around the globe.

This year, IAFNS Food and Chemical Safety Committee and Food Microbiology Committee are supporting the four sessions at the IAFP Annual Meeting.

Progressing Allergen Risk Management: Thresholds and Quantitative Risk Assessment Expand

July 21, 2021, 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM ET

Food allergies constitute a significant public health issue that affects approximately 32 million Americans. The Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) reports a 377% increase in the diagnosis of anaphylactic food reactions between 2007 and 2016. Although research is ongoing for therapeutics, the primary management for food-allergic consumers is strict dietary avoidance. Food choices, however, may be limited for these consumers because of widespread and inconsistent use of precautionary allergen labeling (e.g., statements such as may contain). The concept of reference doses based on a threshold effect is routinely used in public health risk assessment to inform the approach to risk management. For food allergens, dose response modeling of clinical data from oral food challenges in food-allergic individuals has the potential to inform allergen risk management decisions and drive consistency in allergen labeling. This session will explore the current understanding and application of reference doses for food allergens (derived from the modeling of individual thresholds) and consider what information and tools are needed to progress toward reliable allergen risk assessment and management decisions.

Bayesian Hierarchical Evaluation of Dose-Response for Peanut Allergy in Clinical Trial Screening
Lynne Haber, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Occurrence of Allergens in Pre-Packaged Foods in Conjunction with the Use of Precautionary Labeling in Canada: Learnings and Future Directions
Samuel Godefroy, Université Laval, Department of Food Science, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences, Quebec City, QC, Canada Practical Applications of Quantitative Risk Assessment of Allergens
Benjamin Remington, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

 

This session is supported by the IAFNS Food and Chemical Safety Committee.

Developing Atmospheric Cold Plasma as a Nonthermal Food Safety Tool Expand

July 21, 2021, 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM ET

Cold plasma is an emerging technology proposed as a nonthermal process to reduce food safety risks on a variety of foods. Atmospheric cold plasma has a benefit in that it can be applied to packaged foods to reduce surface contaminants such as Salmonella or STEC on fresh fruits and vegetables or L. monocytogenes on high-moisture cheeses. This symposium will present an overview of the technology, examples of inactivating microbes as well as demonstrating it as a novel approach to reduce the presence of mycotoxins on grains. Results from validation studies will be presented and challenges to commercialization will be addressed.

Featured Speakers:

Introduction to Technology, Barriers to Commercialization, Regulatory Approval/Worker Safety
Brendan Niemira, PhD, USDA Agricultural Research Service Case Study: Inactivation of Aflatoxin/Grains
Kevin Keener, PhD, University of Guelph Case Study: Inactivation of Listeria monocytogenes in Soft Cheese
Melha Mellata, PhD, Iowa State University Case Study: From Bench to Prototype for Fresh Produce Safety
Paula Bourke, PhD, University College Dublin

This event is supported by the IAFNS Food Microbiology Committee.

Advances in Powdered Food Safety and Quality Sampling Plans: Theory, Simulation and Practice Expand

July 19, 2021, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM ET

Powdered products are burdened by low-prevalence, low-level contamination that is typically heterogeneously distributed. Multiple commodities and products could benefit from improved management of these risks as evidenced by outbreaks of foodborne disease linked to dairy powders, wheat and nut flours, and powdered infant formula. This session will focus on advances in powder sampling and provide depth in one well-studied commodity, dairy powder, upon which other commodities may draw analogous lessons.

As manufacturers supply domestic and global markets, they must continue to manage rare microbiological contamination with foodborne pathogens such as Salmonella, chemical contamination with mycotoxins such as aflatoxin, and meet increasingly stringent customer quality requirements for indicator and spore counts, to ensure product compliance with regulatory standards. While product testing is one fundamental component of food safety and quality management, traditional best practices like ICMSF-style manual N60 grab sampling is underpowered when those hazards are at low prevalence and level. Modern technologies like autosamplers provide opportunities to improve practice by automating the process of sample collection. This opens the possibility to take many more, smaller samples with complex stratification and true randomness.

Currently, the food industry is needing improvements in practices to meet safety and quality challenges. This session meets that need by addressing knowledge gaps around the benefits of improved sampling plans, technologies and implementation strategies, using dairy powders as an example case. The session will start with a speaker presenting recent statistical theory modelling powder sampling to define the performance of traditional grab compared to auto sampling approaches. The next speaker will present work simulating dairy powder sampling to better define the variability of sampling plans when applied to specific production and hazard scenarios. Finally, we will hear from an industry speaker providing perspective on the value and practicality of getting this done in a multinational company.

Modelling the Effect of Sampling Methods on Detection Tests for Powdered Products
Roger Kissling, Fonterra Simulating Production and Hazard Scenarios in Powdered Product Sampling to Improve Food Safety Sampling Plans
Matthew J. Stasiewicz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Industry Need and Role for Improved Sampling of Powdered Products
Pamela Wilger, Cargill

 

This session is supported by the IAFNS Food Microbiology Committee.

 

 

 

Emergency Use of Microbial Methods of Detection by Industry - Alternative Routes Proving Fit for Purpose Expand

July 20, 2021, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM ET

The food safety industry must ensure analytical methods designed to detect hazards are fit-for-purpose for their specific commodities. Meanwhile, the food industry is developing hundreds of new ingredients and products that will require screening for microbial hazards. With the ever-expanding diversity of these food products, what happens when a testing laboratory is presented with an urgent request for testing a matrix that was not included in the method's original validation study? The laboratory is asked to deviate from the intended use of the method by testing a different matrix or a different test portion size.

This situation can occur when a food manufacturer requires a faster turn-around time for product release than their standard method allows, when there is a sudden issue with the performance of a rapid test kit, or if a test kits from the manufacturer are backordered. Do these situations constitute an emergency? Arguably, this upset in product distribution could constitute an emergency in terms of the supply chain which is already under stress due to pandemic disruptions - with real effects on consumer well-being and the economy.

This roundtable will consider the key components required for a matrix validation and acceptable strategies for matrix validation that can be used in emergency situations. What approaches will allow expediency while assuring that the method is fit for purpose?

View Resources and Verification Guidance Documents

Invited panel participants:
• Deann Akins-Lewenthal, ConAgra Brands
• Patrick Bird, Technical Consultant, AOAC INTERNATIONAL
• Megan Brown, Eurofins
• Tom Hammack, US Food and Drug Administration
• Kelly Stevens, General Mills

 

This session is supported by the IAFNS Food Microbiology Committee.

 

 

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