The International Committee on Predictive Modelling in Foods has organized a symposium for the IAFP 2017 Annual Meeting to encourage the use of predictive microbiology and risk assessment tools by food business operators. These tools can help solve industrial incidents, prove compliance with microbiological criteria, or justify the use of specific control measures in the food chain. Such tools are, more and more, used by authorities to assess the exposure to microbiological contaminants and to support management decisions. This symposium will help microbiologists and stakeholders from the food sector gain knowledge and expertise on how to use these predictive modeling and risk assessment tools, based on oral presentations. Software, to be presented, will offer different features: databases, growth/no growth interfaces, growth and inactivation fitting tools and predictors, and risk assessment tools. Following an introductory talk, five tools will be presented, orally.  Their developers will describe the different features, the possible applications, overviews of the interfaces, and share brief case studies.

As a complement to the oral presentations, there will be a live demonstration or “software fair”, during which attendees can come in and try out the various tools, in a friendly, hands-on session with the developers. Details for the "software fair" can be found under Special Events (#3977).

Presentations