July 18, 2021 – July 21, 2021
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.
October 26, 2020 – October 28, 2020
Virtual, 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. IAFNS is supporting four sessions at the 2020 IAFP Annual Meeting.
September 2, 2020
Virtual, Symposium
IAFNS is pleased to announce the second session in the symposium “Identifying Science Gaps for Risk Assessment of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Food”. This session will address risk characterization with a focus on exposure routes and toxicology, and will build on the first session on PFAS Analytical Methodology which was held June 23rd.
July 21, 2019 – July 24, 2019
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
IAFNS is supporting three sessions, a roundtable event and three posters at the 2019 International Association for Food Protection Annual Meeting.
April 2, 2019 – April 3, 2019
Washington, DC, USA
IAFNS is hosting the 2019 Food Packaging Conference: Scientific Advances and Challenges in Safety Evaluation of Food Packaging Materials on April 2nd-3rd, 2019. The global two-day conference will bring together international and national experts from academia, government, industry and NGOs to share about toxicology, risk assessment and regulatory science as they relate to food packaging.
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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
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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
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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.
Brendan Niemira, PhD, USDA Agricultural Research Service
Kevin Keener, PhD, University of Guelph
Melha Mellata, PhD, Iowa State University
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
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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
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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?
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.
Learn more about the IAFP 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.
IAFNS is supporting three sessions, a roundtable event and three posters at the 2019 IAFP Annual Meeting.
Scientific Sessions:
Managing Large Multidisciplinary/Multi-Institutional Food Safety Projects - Effectively, Impactfully, and with Integrity
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Monday, July 22, 2019 | 1:30 - 5:15 PM | Ballroom D
Food safety is a complex and multidisciplinary challenge. Therefore, federally-funded food safety projects, and even industry-centered projects, increasingly involve large, multidisciplinary/multiinstitutional collaborative teams. However, very few individuals thrust into these roles have formal education or training in managing such projects. This symposium brings together a unique and diverse cohort of presenters, ranging from an expert on assessing the effectiveness and impact of research collaborations and centers (with experience on multiple food safety project teams) to experienced managers of such projects (in government, academic, and industry) to a representative of the Scientific Integrity Consortium. The speakers will describe measures for evaluating the effectiveness of such largescale collaborations, identify common features of successful collaborations, share best practices for forming and managing such teams, and outline essential foundational principles for ensuring the quality and integrity of the resulting research. A panel discussion is included to maximize opportunities for attendee interaction with the multiple perspectives provided by the speakers. After this session, attendees will have a better appreciation on how to play together well in the research sandbox.
Conveners: Bradley Marks, Michigan State University; Kendra Nightingale, Texas Tech University; and Isabel Walls, USDA NIFA
Scholarly Assessment of Large Scholarly Collaboration: Measures of Effectiveness and Impact
Denis Gray, PhD, North Carolina State University
Managing Government-Academic-Industry Collaborations
Kimberly Cook, PhD, USDA ARS
Lessons Learned from Managing NoroCORE, a Large USDA-CAP Project
Lee-Ann Jaykus, PhD, North Carolina State University
Managing Food Safety Projects Across Multiple Boundaries - Internally and Externally
Edith Wilkin, PhD, Leprino Foods
Report from the Scientific Integrity Consortium: Principles and Best Practices for Scientific Integrity
Linda Harris, PhD, University of California, Davis
This session is supported by the IAFNS Food Microbiology Commitee.
The Mitigation and Regulation of Heat-Formed Substances Produced in Foods During Cooking: What are the Unintended Consequences on Microbial Safety and Public Health?
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Tuesday, July 23, 2019 | 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | M107
A growing field in food safety is the focus on the potential risk of heat-formed substances produced during cooking. Compounds that are known as human health hazards are being increasingly identified as heat-formed substances present in food. Two prominent examples of this are acrylamide and furfuryl alcohol, both of which are present in significant amounts in a wide array of foods. This session will help inform how the risk assessment process of heat-formed substances can incorporate the benefits of cooking and cooked food. It will highlight the genetic changes that allowed humans to consume cooked food. The session will then explore the unintended consequences in mitigating heat formed substances, such as introducing microbial hazards. It will address how to assess and communicate these risks to food processors and consumers. The potential impact and implications on the food industry and, ultimately, the end consumer, of using current approaches to assess the potential public health impact of compounds formed during routine cooking of food will be debated.
Convener: Steven Hermansky, PharmD, PhD, DABT, ConAgra Brands
Genetic Evidence of Human Adaptation to a Cooked Diet and its Role in Human Health and Food Safety - Video not available
Steven Hermansky, PharmD, PhD, DABT, ConAgra Brands
Balancing Microbial Food Safety Risks with Mitigating Heat-Formed Substances in Foods - Video not available
Scott Hood, PhD, General Mills
The Need for a Holistic Toxicological Assessment of Heat-formed Substances within A Food Matrix -Video
Michael Dourson, PhD, DABT, FATS, FSRA, Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment
This session is supported by the IAFNS Food and Chemical Safety Committee.
Let's Hear from Next Generation Food Safety Scientists on Pathogen Behavior in Ready to Eat Foods
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Wednesday, July 24, 2019 | 1:30 - 3:30 PM | Ballroom E
A current research collaboration between Health Canada, the University of Guelph and North Carolina State University is investigating the survival and inactivation of Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella, and foodborne viruses during the storage of low moisture foods. This is a wide-ranging research consortium funded by the IAFNS Food Microbiology Committee and includes a number of developing research scientists who will also present their findings. The IAFNS Food Microbiology Committee is committed to proactively improving the understanding and control of microbial food safety hazards to enable scientifically informed decision making. The Committee achieves its mission by funding research that is conducted at institutions who also train the next generation of food safety scientists.
Ready-to-eat low moisture products such as nuts, dried fruits, cereal products, and chocolate are often ingredients used in the manufacturing of many food products. They carry significant potential for the amplification of outbreaks and recalls over a wide variety of products. The research consortium represented by this next generation of food safety experts is studying several aspects of pathogen behavior in low moisture ready-to-eat foods and goes beyond traditional thermal mitigation strategies.
Conveners: Laurie Post, PhD, Deibel Labs; Edith Wilkin, PhD, Leprino Foods
Survival, Inactivation and Detection of Foodborne Viruses During Long Term Storage in Chocolate, Pistachios and Cornflakes
Neda Nasheri, PhD, Health Canada
Survival and Virulence of L. monocytogenes During Storage on Low Moisture Foods and Characterization of the Low Moisture Foods Microbiome
Vivian Ly, MSc candidate, University of Guelph
Nontraditional Decontamination Methods for Salmonella Reduction in Dried Fruits and Cereals
Kayla Murray, PhD candidate, University of Guelph
Identification of Molecular Mechanisms Mediating Long-Term Survival of Salmonella in Pistachios, Dried Apples, and Cornflakes
Victor Oladimeji Jayeola, PhD candidate, North Carolina State University
This session is supported by the IAFNS Food Microbiology Committee.
Roundtable Event:
Is It Time for Food Safety Performance Standards Since Zero Risk Is Not an Option?
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Monday, July 22, 2019 | 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Ballroom E
Food safety systems rely on verification activities to determine if the system is working as designed and validated. Microbiological performance standards can be used to verify if a processing system is adequately controlling a specific hazard. Performance standards should be set to protect public health. Sampling protocols and microbiological testing methods must be appropriate for the food being tested. In the US poultry industry, performance standards have been in place to measure the prevalence of Salmonella. Over time, the performance standards have changed to reflect the improved conditions in the industry. Prevalence based performance standards may work for other product categories, especially in dry products of raw agricultural products such as wheat flours and the produce area especially for frozen fruits and vegetables. This roundtable discussion will explore the current and potential future uses of performance standards in foods where it is not reasonable to expect zero presence of pathogens.
Convener: Christina Stam, PhD, Kraft Heinz
Panelists:
Craig Hedberg, PhD, University of Minnesota
Candace Doepker, PhD, ToxStrategies
Angie Siemens, PhD, Cargill
Scott Hood, PhD, General Mills
Donna Garren, PhD, American Frozen Food Institute
This roundtable event is supported by the IAFNS Food Microbiology Committee.
Poster Presentations:
A Novel Simulation Approach to Improving the Effectiveness of Sampling for Bulk Food Products - Video
Eric Cheng, University of Illinois | P1-124 | Monday, July 22, 8:30am - 6:15pm
Global Gene Expression Analysis of Salmonella Contaminating Low-Moisture Foods - Video
Victor Oladimeji Jayeola, North Carolina State University | P1-201 | Monday, July 22, 8:30am - 6:15pm
Prevalence and Characteristics of Selected Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens in Post-Hurricane Florence Floodwaters - Video
Jeff Niedermeyer, North Carolina State University | P3-161 | Wednesday, July 24, 8:30am - 3:30pm
Learn more about the IAFP Annual Meeting here.
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IAFNS is hosting the 2019 Food Packaging Conference: Scientific Advances and Challenges in Safety Evaluation of Food Packaging Materials at The Westin Washington, D.C. City Center on April 2nd-3rd, 2019. The global two-day conference will bring together international and national experts from academia, government, industry and NGOs to share about toxicology, risk assessment and regulatory science as they relate to food packaging.
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Day 1
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| Keynote: | Science Denial & The Future of Food |
| Roxi Beck, Center for Food Integrity, USA - Bio | Video |
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| Session I: Analytical Testing and Migration Assessments/Modeling | |
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| Analytical Battery Testing Development for Generic Food Packaging Migration Study |
| Thomas Hartman, PhD, Rutgers University, USA - Bio | Video |
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| Trends in Heavy Metal Content for Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate (RPET) Food Packaging Between 2010 and 2018 |
| Keith Vorst, PhD, Iowa State University, USA - Bio | Video |
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| Determination of Phthalates in Foods and Food Packaging |
| Katherine Carlos, PhD, US Food and Drug Administration - Bio | Video not available |
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| Looking Beyond the Lamppost: High Throughput Measurement and Modeling for Chemical Prioritization |
| John Wambaugh, PhD, US Environmental Protection Agency - Bio | Video |
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| Session II: Exposure and Toxicology Assessments | |
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| Characterization of Genotoxicity and Endocrine Activity of Food Contact Materials by in vitro Bioassays |
| Christian Kirchnawy, PhD, OFI Technologie & Innovation GmbH, Austria - Bio | Video |
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| Application of an Extended Decision Tree for the Safety Assessment of Food Packaging Materials |
| Tim Adams, PhD, US Food and Drug Administration - Bio | Video |
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| Reevaluation of FDA’s Packaging Factors Used to Calculate Consumer Exposure to Food Contact Substances in Food Packaging Materials |
| Jessica Cooper, PhD, US Food and Drug Administration Bio | Video |
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| Exposure and Risk Assessment of Printing Inks Used in Packaging Under California Proposition 65 |
| Sneha Bhatia, MS, Sun Chemical Corporation, USA - Bio | Video |
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| Keynote: | Suzanne Fitzpatrick, PhD, US Food and Drug Administration - Bio | Video |
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| Session III: Risk Assessment and Regulatory Science Interpretation | |
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| Challenges in Safety Evaluation of Food Contact Materials in Europe |
| Cristina Nerín, PhD, University of Zaragoza, Spain - Bio | Video |
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| Dietary Exposure and Toxicological Review of Epoxidized Soybean Oil (ESBO) from Use in Food-Contact Materials |
| LaShonda Cureton, PhD, US Food and Drug Administration - Bio | Video |
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| Chemicals in Plastic Packaging: Prioritization of Hazardous Substances |
| Jane Muncke, PhD, Food Packaging Forum, Switzerland - Bio | Video |
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| Mitchell Cheeseman, PhD, Steptoe and Johnson, USA - Bio | Video not available |
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| Closing Remarks: From Packaging Safety Exposure Modelling to a Decision Support System for Food Packaging Innovation – including Safety and Environmental Assessment (GLOPACK) |
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16 Mar 2019 - 3 Apr 2019 |
| Industry/For-Profit |
$600 |
$700 |
| Government/Academia/Non-Profit* |
FREE |
$300 |
| Student/Post Doc* |
FREE |
$300 |
Breakfast (2), lunch (2) and a reception are included with registration.
*Capacity is limited. Register early!
Hotel
Accommodations
We have secured a room block at The Westin Washington, DC City Center, the venue for the 2019 Food Packaging Conference, with a nightly rate of $279, exclusive of state and local taxes. The room block ends 11 March 2019 but we recommend that you make your reservation in advance as space fills quickly. After you have successfully registered for your room you will receive an email confirmation. Please click here to reserve your room.
Hotel Address:
The Westin Washington, D.C. City Center
1400 M St. NW
Washington, DC 20005
Travel
Air Travel:
Washington, DC is located near three major airports: Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), Dulles International Airport (IAD), and Baltimore/Washington International Airport (BWI). Reagan National Airport is located closest to DC and is accessible via its own Metro stop on the Blue and Yellow lines. If commuting to The Westin via Metro from DCA, hop on the blue line at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Metro Stop and get off at McPherson Square (7 stops). You can also take a taxi, Uber or Lyft into DC. This will cost around $15-$25.
Dulles Airport is located 26 miles outside of DC in Virginia. To get downtown you can take a taxi, shuttle, Uber or Lyft. A taxi to DC will cost around $60-$70. BWI is the furthest but may offer better flight deals. All three airports offer domestic and international flights daily.
Metro:
Metro is the most convenient way to get around DC. This public transportation system consists of six color-coded lines: Red, Blue, Orange, Silver, Green, and Yellow that are connected to each other via transfer stations. To ride Metro you must pay via a SmarTrip card which can be purchased at any Metro station with cash or credit. Most fares range from $2.25 - $6 per trip. Metro runs from 5 a.m. to midnight on weekdays and from 7 a.m. to midnight on weekends. The closest Metro stop to the conference venue is McPherson Square, accessible via the orange, silver, and blue lines. Click here for more information about Metro.
Taxi:
Another way to travel in DC is by taxi. There are many and all accept cash, credit and debit cards.
Uber/Lyft:
To travel by uber or Lyft, download the app onto your smartphone and you can begin requesting a ride by entering the address of your destination.
DC Circulator:
The DC Circulator travels along six specific routes and is affordable at just $1 per ride.
International
When traveling to the 2019 Food Packaging Conference, the U.S. may require visitors to obtain a visa. This process can take a few weeks to several months to complete, so please be sure to apply early. For more information about your country's visa requirements, visit the U.S. State Department website for the latest information when planning your trip.
IAFNS can provide a formal invitation letter to assist with the visa submission process. Please contact Angela Roberts (angelar@iafnsconnect.wpengine.com) to request a letter.
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Cherry Blossoms
Depending on the weather, the beginning of April is usually around the time cherry blossom trees reach peak bloom in DC. Check out the beautiful pink and white sights on the Tidal Basin.
If you're taking the Metro, use the Blue, Orange or Silver lines and exit at the Smithsonian stop. From there, it's a 10-15 minute walk to the Tidal Basin Welcome Area located at 1501 Maine Avenue SW. If you are taking the Metrobus, the 32, 34 or 36 routes will drop you off at the National Mall.
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National Museum of American History
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0.1 miles from hotel:
Lincoln
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Quill
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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
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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
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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.
Brendan Niemira, PhD, USDA Agricultural Research Service
Kevin Keener, PhD, University of Guelph
Melha Mellata, PhD, Iowa State University
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
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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
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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?
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.
Learn more about the IAFP Annual Meeting.
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