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IFSH 2018 Annual Meeting

  • 25 Sep 2018
  • 8:00 AM
  • 26 Sep 2018
  • 3:00 PM
  • Chicago Marriott Southwest at Burr Ridge, 1200 Burr Ridge Parkway Burr Ridge, IL 60527


The 2018 IFSH Annual Meeting will take place as follows, tickets & additional information can be found HERE

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

7:30am-8:00am Continental Breakfast

Taskforce Meetings (Concurrent Sessions)

8:00am-12:00pm

Low Moisture Foods Taskforce Meeting, The overall goal of this task force is to reduce risk of foodborne outbreaks associated with low-moisture foods, by developing scientific consensus for validation of preventive controls for low-moisture foods.

  • Keynote: Hot-topic
  • IFSH LMF Research Findings
  • Working Session: Development of Best Practices for Extrusion Processing

Sprout Safety Taskforce Meeting, The IFSH Sprout Safety Task Force was formed in 2009 with two major goals: 1) increase industry compliance with FDA sprout safety regulations and adoption of food safety best practices, and 2) address critical food safety research needs for safe production of sprouts.

  • Updates and emerging issues: sprout industry and FDA
  • Sprout Safety Alliance updates
  • Technology highlight: innovative seed treatment and sprout production technologies
  • IFSH research updates

Juice and Beverage Safety Taskforce Meeting 

  • Taskforce overview, taskforce structure and updates
  • Updates and progress: low-acid workgroup/high-acid workgroup
  • FDA perspectives and updates
  • Workgoup breakout discussions

Annual Meeting

11:30am–1:00pm Registration, Networking and Lunch Available for Meeting Attendees

1:00pm–1:30pm Welcoming Remarks and IFSH Update, Robert Brackett, Ph.D., Vice President, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and Director, Institute for Food Safety and Health (IFSH)

1:30pm–2:00pm CFSAN Update, Susan Mayne, Ph.D., Director, FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN)

2:00pm–2:30pm Invited Keynote Presentation, Stephen Ostroff, M.D., Deputy Commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine, FDA

2:30pm–2:45pm Break

2:45pm–4:00pm IFSH 30th Anniversary Session, Invited presentations from current and former leaders of NCFST, FDA CFSAN and Industry, Darsh Wasan, Ph.D., Karen Carson, David Armstrong, Ph.D., Chuck Sizer, Ph.D., Martin Cole, Ph.D., Jenny Scott, Ph.D.

5:00pm–8:00pm Reception at MOFFETT (6502 South Archer Road, Bedford Park, IL 60501)

  • 5:30pm–6:00pm Laboratory and Pilot Plant Tours #1
  • 6:30pm-7:00pm Laboratory and Pilot Plant Tours #2


Wednesday, September 26, 2018

8:00am‒8:25am Continental Breakfast

8:25am–8:30am IFSH Research Highlights – Management and Oversight, Les Smoot, Ph.D., Moffett Project Officer, FDA, CFSAN, Office of Food Safety

8:30am-9:00am Food Processing Platform, Glenn Black, Ph.D., Associate Director for Research, FDA CFSAN DFPST. Project presentation, "Enhancing Legacy Technology for the Pasteurization of Low Moisture Foods", Elizabeth Grasso-Kelley, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor, IIT IFSH

9:00am–9:30am Food Microbiology Platform, Mary Lou Tortorello, Ph.D., Branch Chief – Food Technology, FDA CFSAN DFPST. Project presentation, "Assessment of virus adhesion to food contact surfaces", Carol Shieh, Ph.D. Research Microbiologist, FDA CFSAN DFPST

9:30am–10:00am Food Chemistry and Packaging Platform, Lauren Jackson, Ph.D., Branch Chief –Process Engineering, FDA CFSAN DFPST. Project presentation, "Current assessment of food-grade lubricant transfer into foods", Yoon Song, Ph.D. Research Food Technologist/Packaging Scientist, FDA CFSAN DFPST

10:00am-10:30am Break

10:30am–10:45am Nutrition Platform, Britt Burton-Freeman, Ph.D., Director - Center for Nutrition Research, IIT IFSH. Project Presentation, "Metagenomics in Nutrition Research"

10:45am–11:05am Proficiency Testing and Method Validation Platform. Ravinder Reddy, Ph.D., Senior Microbiologist, FDA CFSAN DFPST. Project presentation, "Use of proficiency test data to evaluate method performance", Yang Chen, Chemist/ORISE Research Fellow, FDA CFSAN DFPST and Sal Lopez, Goldbelt Falcon Contractor, FDA CFSAN DFPST

11:05am–11:10am Poster Session Overview, Jason Wan, Ph.D., IFSH Associate Director, IIT IFSH

11:10am–12:00pm Poster Viewving

12:00pm–1:00pm Lunch

1:00pm-1:15pm IFSH Taskforce Update Summary

1:15pm–2:30pm Emerging Issues in Food Safety and Health

  • Whole Genome Sequencing and Food Safety - Present and Future Applications, Tyann Blessington, Regulatory Scientist, FDA, CORE Surveillance Team
  • Panel: How FSMA Has Changed Compliance and Inspections – FDA and Industry Perspectives, Priya Rathnam M.P.H., FDA CFSAN and Loralyn Ledenbach, M.S., Principal Scientist, The Kraft Heinz Company

2:30pm–3:00pm Invited Industry Keynote Presentation, Future Food Safety Challenges and Opportunities, Greg Pritchard, Vice President Quality, Nestle North America

3:00pm- 3:10pm Closing Remarks

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