This symposium will showcase a collection of interesting and exciting stories from the food safety world. It will be an interactive symposium through the use of an audience response system that will help to encourage audience participation. Attendees of this symposium will be greeted with a fun and lighthearted atmosphere; however, it will not be short on learning opportunities as topics will be presented by an expert in his/her food safety field, and will provide an informative and educational insight into a different area of food safety. A variety of topics were chosen to engage the audience, including sometimes overlooked topics (i.e., food safety at the local level from a public health inspector’s perspective), topics of current focus (i.e., insights from both social media outlets and international food safety research projects), and topics that are popular and recurring at IAFP (i.e., investigative case studies from both an industry and academic perspective). Additionally, topics will be presented in a manner that may “gross” attendees out, will provide multiple opportunities for “I didn’t know that!” moments, and will encourage audience participation, all leading to a very engaging symposium.

Presentations