Saturday, July 8
8:00 – 5:00 W1: Drying Technologies: Strategies for Managing Pathogen and Allergen Risks
Monday, July 10
12:15 – 1:15 Special Session: U.S. Regulatory Update on Food Safety
1:30 – 3:00 S19: How does GFSI Audit Criteria for Sanitation, Hygiene, and Environmental
Sampling compare to FSMA Requirements?
1:30 – 5:00 S29: After 20 Years of Seafood HACCP, Is our Food Safer?
3:30 – 5:00 S22: Defining, Capturing, and Assessing the Vulnerability of the Food Supply to
Economically Motivated Adulteration and Food Fraud
Tuesday, July 11
8:30 – 10:00 S40: Ensuring Food Safety through the Product Development Lifecycle:
Successes and Pitfalls
1:30 – 5:00 S47: Stories from the Trenches: FDA Inspection after Food Safety
Modernization Act Implementation
Wednesday, July 12
10:30 – 12:00 RT12: The Devil is in the Details: Experiences with Early Implementation of the
FSMA Produce Safety Rule and Efforts to Fill the Information Gaps
10:30 – 12:00 S56: Chemical and Microbial Risk Assessment: Similarities and Differences
1:30 – 3:30 S67: Preventive Controls other than CCPs: Choosing, Verifying, and Validating
Update on Codex activities regarding the proposed CCHF updates to General Principals of Food Hygiene (GPHF) including the HACCP annex – Invited speaker Jenny Scott or Carol Wallace (speaker not yet confirmed)
Breakout Sessions:
1) Risk Evaluation – Supply Chain hazard analysis, FSVP
2) Relating “Enhanced GHP’s” to OPrP’s and PrP’s
3) Ingredient Risk Assessment – Characterizing risk for ingredients in light of FDA Draft Guidance
4) Qualitative vs. Quantitative approaches to characterization of severity and likelihood of potential hazards
Symposia for 2018 Meeting:
Brainstorming symposia ideas- early suggestions:
- Supplier verification activities – what is really needed? As it relates to audits, scientific basis of preventive controls, choosing the appropriate validation of process controls (i.e. using the right surrogate)
- How to handle HACCP/Food Safety plans in dual or multi-jurisdiction manufacturing facilities (such as USDA/FDA, or FDA PCHF/Seafood HACCP, or FDA PCHF/Juice HACCP) – CCP’s and PP’s vs. PC’s in one plant?
- Using COA testing as a verification activity for supply chain controls – how to determine appropriate methods and sampling schemes (this can be done jointly with the Applied Methods PDG)
Submission date for symposia is October 3, 2017.
Clarification of the submission process