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The Guelph Food Safety Seminar Series Presents...

GFSSS 6th Annual One-Day Symposium

Outbreaks: Learning from the Past, Preparing for the Future

 

Date:

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

 

Time:

7:30AM -1:00 PM

 

Place:  

Holiday Inn Guelph Hotel and Conference Centre

601 Scottsdale Drive, Guelph, Ontario

Tel: 519-836-0231

Website: http://www.higuelph.ca/guelph-hotels

 

GFSSS 2009 Symposium Registration

·         There is NO registration fee.

·         Registration Deadline: Wednesday, October 14.

·         There is NO on-site registration. Cancellations must be made by October 16. Please email us if you cannot attend to allow room for those on the waiting list.

·         Completed registration forms MUST be sent to GFSSS@phac-aspc.gc.ca  

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Guelph Food Safety Seminar Series 2009 Symposium program schedule*

 

Time

Program

7:30 – 8:45 AM

Registration/Refreshments/Trade Show/Posters

8:45 – 9:00 AM

 

Welcome/Opening Remarks

Ken Moore, Regional Director, Health Products and Food, Ontario Region, Health Canada

9:00 – 10:30 AM

 

Session 1

Moderator:

Tom Graham, National Inspection Manager, National Inspection Division, National Operations, Canadian Food Inspection Agency

 

Pathogen Control Best Practices in Food Plants

Ruby M Lee, Chief Microbiologist, Guelph Food Technology Centre

 

The Ontario Multi-Agency Foodborne Outbreak/ Food Recall Working Group

Louise Sharpe,  Manager-Intergovernmental Affairs, Ontario Area, Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Yvonne Whitfield, Senior Program Consultant, Infectious Diseases Branch, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

 

An Investigation into a Foodborne Outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 Associated with a Restaurant in North Bay, Ontario

Mike Duncan, Manager of the Environmental Health Division and

Louise Gagne, Epidemiologist, North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit

10:30 – 11:00 AM

Coffee Break/Trade Show/Posters

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

 

Session 2

Moderator:

Mike Cassidy, Coordinator, Food Safety Science Unit, Food Inspection Branch, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs

 

 

Tentative Title: Packaging Related Food Safety Technology

Carol Zweep, Manager, Packaging Services, Guelph Food Technology Centre

 

Speaker 5

TBA

 

 

Tentative Title: Food Safety Culture: A Necessary Prerequisite for the Production of Safe Food

Randy Huffman, Chief Food Safety Officer, Maple Leaf Foods

12:30 PM

 

Closing Remarks/Tradeshow/Posters

Mansel Griffiths, DFO/NSERC Senior Industrial Research Chair in Dairy Microbiology and Director, Canadian Research Institute for Food Safety, University of Guelph

*PLEASE NOTE: speaker order may change. Speakers are still to be confirmed.  

 

 

 

Registration is FREE so register now as its first come first served!  Your registration will be confirmed by email within 3 business days.  If you do not receive a confirmation letter in that timeframe, please email again.  Bring your confirmation letter to the Registration Desk on Thursday, October 22, 2009.  

 

Please email your registration information to: GFSSS@phac-aspc.gc.ca    


GFSSS 2009 Symposium Registration Form/Information

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