Sunday, October 19, 2008

7:00 pm

Opening Session - Kinnickinnic River Theater, University Center
Welcome
Purnendu C. Vasavada
Conference Director, UW-River Falls

7:10 pm

Trends in Food Safety
Karen Mullery
Global Business Manager, 3M Microbiology, St. Paul, MN

8:15 pm

Welcome Reception - Wind River Room, University Center

Monday, October 20, 2008
Riverview Ballroom, University Center

7:30 am

Registration

8:15 a.m.

Welcome and announcements

Dale Gallenberg - Dean, College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences, UW-River Falls

Purnendu Vasavada -Professor of Food Science and Conference Director

8:30 am

Diversity and Role of the Lactic Acid Bacteria in the Food Environment
Wilhelm Holzapfel, Director (retired), Institute of Hygiene and Toxicology,
Karlsruhe, Germany

9:00 am

Certificate of Conformance
Anne Sherod, Director, Food Safety and Microbiology, Schwan's, Marshall, MN

9:30 am

Food Safety in Developing Nations
Richard Stier, Consulting Food Scientists, Sonoma, CA

10:00 am

Break - poster viewing

10:20 am

Rapid Molecular Methods for Detection of Food and Environmental Pathogens
Brijesh Singh, Senior Scientist, The Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen, UK

10:50 am

Validation and Harmonization of Rapid Methods
Robert Koeritzer, 3M, St. Paul, MN

11:10 a.m.

Panel Discussion - Global Food Safety Issues and Trends

11:30

Lunch
Riverside Commons, University Center

1-5 pm
1 p.m.
1:20 p.m.
1:40 p.m.
2-3:30 p.m.
3:30 p.m.
3:50 p.m.
4:10 p.m.
4:30 p.m.

Presentations and demonstrations by representatives of various companies:
A. Crispin Philpott, Litmus Rapid-B, LLC
Adam Barnes, DuPont Qualicon
Laurie Kundrat, MicroBioLogics, Inc.
Supplier Spotlight - demonstration session
Glen Rose, Microbial Vac Systems, Inc
Olga Petrauskene, Applied BioSystems
James Spencer, Invitrogen
Colin Dykes, OpGen

8:00 - 10:00pm

Social at Country Inn and Suites

Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Riverview Ballroom, University Center

8:15 am

Announcements

8:20 am

A New Phage-based assay for the rapid detection of E. coli O157:H7
Stan Bailey, Director of Scientific Affairs, bioMerieux Industrial Diagnostics,
Durham, NC

8:50 am

Quality and Safety of Milk and Milk Products in Brazil: progress and
perspectives in analytical strategies
Marcelo Bonnet, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Juiz de Fora MG, Brazil

9:20 am

Food Safety Management for Mega events such as Olympic games or World Cup-a clear framework for risk management
Serban Teodoresco, Global Managing Director, SafeKey Group,
JohnsonDiversey, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

9:50am

Conference Group Photo
Break - Poster Viewing

10:20 am

History of Listeria Recall - Chicken Strips
Larry Cohen, Food Safety Program Manager, Kraft Foods, Glenview, IL

10:50 am

Perspectives on Staphylococcal Enterotoxin and a Detection Model for Insuring
ELISA Based Method Functionality
Reginald Bennett, Branch Chief, FDA, College Park, MD

11:20 am

Mycotoxins Dilek Heperkan, Professor of Food Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

11:40 am

Lunch
Riverside Commons, University Center

1-5 pm

Presentations and demonstrations by representatives of various companies.
Participating companies include: 3M Microbiology, AES-Chemunex, Applied
Biosystems, BioControl Systems, Inc., bioMerieux, DuPont Qualicon, Ecolab,
Litmus Rapid-B, LLC, Microbial Vac Systems, Inc. Microbiologics, Inc., and
Strategic Diagnostics, Inc.

Evening Program

6:00 pm

Social Hour

7:00 pm

Banquet

9: 30 pm

Social Mixer at Country Inn and Suites, River Falls, WI

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Riverview Ballroom, University Center

Food Allergen Issues and Testing
A mini-symposium in association with the Food Allergen Research and Resource
Program (FARRP), the International Association for Cereal Science and
Technology (ICC) and R-Biopharm

8:00 am

Announcements

8:05 am

Strengths and Limitation of Methods of Detection of Allergens in Food
Ingredients
Steve Taylor, Co-Director, Food Allergy Research and Resource Program,
Lincoln, NE

8:50 am

Food allergy: Natural History and Clinical perspective
Dr. Allan Stillerman, Allergy Asthma Specialists - Minneapolis, MN

9:20 am

Current State of Methodology for Allergens in Food Samples
Jonathon Devries, Technical Manager, Medallion Laboratories, General Mills,
Minneapolis, MN

9:50 am

Break - Poster viewing

10:15 am

NCFST Survey on Food Allergen Control Practices and Allergen Research Needs
Lauren Jackson, Research Food Technologists, FDA, Summit-Argo, IL

10:45 am

Food Allergen Issue: Industry Perspective
Paul Hall, President, AIV Food Safety Consultants, LLC

11:15 am

Detection of Gluten and Related Protein in Foods and Beverages -Specific Detection with the R5 Antibody in a Ready-to-Use Test Kit forIndustry.
Sigrid Haas Lauterbach, R-Biopharm, Darmstadt, Germany

11:45 am

Discussion

12 p.m.

Lunch

1-3 pm

Workshop demonstrations on testing for food allergens