Ontario Food Safety Research Program

Food safety research has been funded by the Ontario government’s Food Safety Research Program since 2001. The current priority areas are:

• Development/validation of testing methods for pathogen and chemical detection in food and water
• Data to support risk assessments / risk assessments, including the identification of emerging hazards and contaminants
• Risk management and control in food safety

Oral presentations
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     Oral presentation abstracts
     Speaker biographies

1. Alain Stintzi (U of Ottawa): Role of protozoa in the persistence and amplification of Campylobacter in poultry houses
2. Perry Martos (LSD/U of G): A complete multi residue mycotoxin analysis in food
3. Scott Weese (U of G): Development and application methods for detection of Clostridium difficile in retail meat
4. Brian Sterling (OnTrace): Bridging the Traceability R&D Gap in Ontario – Industry perspective
5. Andrew Watt (OMAFRA): Bridging the Traceability R&D Gap in – Government perspective
6. Andreas Boecker (U of G): Investing in traceability - an economic perspective and empirical results
7. Marianne Elia (Maple Leaf Foods): Maple Leaf Foods’ Approach to Adoption of Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI)
8. Shu Chen (LSD/U of G): Detection of Food-borne Pathogens by Nanoparticle-based Technology
9. Keith Warriner (U of G): Control of human pathogens on tomatoes and sprouted seeds using a combination of lytic bacteriophages and antagonistic bacteria
10. Chris Cyrenne (Wal-Mart): Harmonization of Food Safety Standards - GFSI Certification”
11. Scott McEwen (U of G): Synthesis research on intervention strategies for Salmonella in broiler production in Ontario
12. Richard Holley (U of Manitoba – Keynote): Food Safety - compliance, complacency, and the constitution
13. Emergency Management Research Theme: What you need to know
    a) Dave Kelton (U of G): 2008-2018 OMAFRA-UofG Emergency Management Research Theme 
    b) Grant Maxie (AHL/U of G): Animal Health Laboratory Update 2010
    c) Tom Baker (OMAFRA): Setting priorities for OMAFRA Funded Research
14. Moustapha Oke (OMAFRA): Food Safety Research Program and Research Priorities for 2010/2011

• Poster presentation list  (titles, authors and presenters*)
• Poster presentation abstracts 

1. Brita Ball*, Anne Wilcock, Scott Colwell
   P01: Factors predicting worker food safety behaviour in Ontario meat plants
2. Oliver Bucher*, Ashley M. Farrar, Sarah C. Totton, Wendy Wilkins, Lisa A. Waddell, Barbara J. Wilhelm, Andrijana Rajić, Scott A. McEwen
   P02: The effectiveness of chilling against salmonella in broiler chickens: a systematic review and meta-analysis approach
3. Islam, M.R.*, Zhou, T., and Pauls, K.P.
   P03: Isolation and characterization of a novel bacterial strain capable of detoxifying the mycotoxin deoxynivalenol
4. Jennifer T. Brisbin*, Joshua Gong, Payvand Parvizi, Shayan Sharif
   P04: The effect of three species of Lactobacillus on cytokine expression in cecal tonsil mononuclear cells
5. L. Lee*, R. Reid-Smith, N. Janecko, S.A. McEwen A. Deckert
   P05: Prevalence and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Salmonella and Generic Escherichia coli Isolated From Cecal Contents of Canadian Spent Hens
6. Amanda Naaum*, Montana McLean, Heather Braid and Robert Hanner
   P06: DNA Barcoding and its Food Safety Applications
7. Otto, S.J.*, Reid-Smith, R.J., Dutil, L., McEwen, S.A.
   P07: Estimating the Burden of Illness of Ceftiofur-Resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Heidelberg Using Quantitative Risk Modeling and Surveillance Data from Ontario
8. A.L. Thomas*, D.L. Pearl, R.M. Friendship,and O. Berke
   P08: Quantitative Disease Surveillance using Condemnation Data of Market Hogs in Ontario from 2001 - 2007
9. Ian Young*, Andrijana Rajića,, Lindsay Arthur, Andria Jones and Scott A. McEwen
   P09: Attitudes towards food safety among niche market producers in Ontario,Canada. A qualitative descriptive study
10. Jennifer Ronholm*, Min Lin, Zhiyi Zhang and Xudong Cao
    P10: IspC – A Protein with Potential to be Targeted For Immunological Detection of Listeria monocytogenes serotype 4b

11. L. Arthur*, M. Oke, S. Chen
    P11: Pinpointing sources of contamination on leafy green and fresh market tomato farms
12. Canjun Mu, Zhiyi Zhang*, Min Lin and Xudong Cao*
    P12: A microchip-based flow cytometer for rapid detection of foodborne pathogens
13. C.M. Carey, J. Tang, and M. Kostrzynska
    P13: The effect of starvation and low temperature storage on stress and virulence gene expression of Escherichia coli O157:H7
14. Shu Chen, Jiping Li, and Joseph Odumeru
    P14: Evaluation of Multiple-Locus Variable Number of Tandem Repeat Analysis (MLVA) to Subtype Listeria monocytogenes Directly in Food Samples
15. Hongsheng Huang, Beverly Phipps-Todd, Karen St-Pierre, Qigao Fu and Brian Brooks
    P15: Development and evaluation of methods for detection of campylobacters in vegetables
16. Wen Liang, Justin Kong, Jean- Philippe Loublanches, and Mohamed Ibnkahla
    P16: Enhanced Food Traceability and Safety Risk Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks
17. Dele Ogunremi* and M. Ngeleka
    P17: Is there a food link between isolates of Salmonella serovar Typhimurium causing disease in people and wild avian species
18. Vahab Farzan, Robert Friendship
    P18: Vaccination to control Salmonella shedding in pigs
19. A. Valdivieso-Garcia, J. MacKinnon, F. Bralha, and A. Kropinski
    P19: A novel in-vivo model to assess Campylobacter virulence using Rhabditis pseudoteres, a thermotolerant (37° C) nematode