Food Safety Compliance Strategies
Regulatory and Legislative Updates and Best Practices in Traceability, and Quality Assurance
September 23 and 24, 2010
Optional Workshop: September 22, 2010
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
Conference Program Agenda - Day Two
Friday, September 24, 2010
| 8:00 - 9:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
8:00 - 9:00 |
9:00 - 9:15
Opening Remarks from the Co-Chairs
Jonathan Cohen, Partner, Gilbert LLP
Shawn Stevens, Partner, Gass Weber Mullins LLC
9:15 - 10:15
Examining and Cultivating Best Practices in Food Traceability
Dane Bernard, Vice-President - Food Safety and Quality Assurance, Keystone Foods
Jorge Hernandez, Senior Vice-President, Food Safety, U.S. Food Service
- Assessing your organization's tracing practices to ensure proper documentation
- Inspecting compliance for your food accountability and reporting programs
- Deciphering the "one up, one down" practice: contrasting what this means to industry vs. government
- Position your company to share traceability data with key partners
- Monitor products during transport: how they can be employed to maintain product integrity and to trace sources of mishandling and abuse
| 10:15 - 10:30 |
Networking Break |
10:15 - 10:30 |
10:30 - 11:30
Validating Food Safety Controls for Maximal Safety Results
Tim Birmingham, Associate Director Quality Assurance/Industry Services, Almond Board of California
- Creating efficient internal controls and strategies to better anticipate unplanned inspections
- Ensuring your internal processes are in place to respond quickly when contamination occurs
- Enacting traceability practices to pinpoint contamination causes
- Implementing a HACCP plan that works
11:30 - 12:00
Case Study
Peanut Corporation of America (PCA)
Sarah Brew, Attorney, Nilan Johnson Lewis PA
An overview of the far-reaching implications of the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) salmonella outbreak, including:
- Scope of the outbreak, recall and resulting commercial and personal injury claims
- PCA's bankruptcy, the personal injury claims process, and liability implications for on-going litigation against manufacturers and distributers
- Supplier management and audit implications for the food industry
| 12:00 - 1:30 |
Luncheon Break |
12:00 - 1:30 |
1:30 - 2:30
Case Study
American Peanut Council Food Safety Initiatives and Response to Recalls
Dr. Sterling Thompson, The Hershey Company
This case study will outline the proactive steps being taken by the U. S. peanut industry to enhance food safety practices, such as the completion of a thermal inactivation study of Salmonella, development and presentation of a HACCP Workshop with the focus on the nut industry, and revision of a GMP document with a specific focus on microbiological contamination.
- Overview of the 2009 PCA recall
- Industry's response and strategic approach to the media frenzy
- Lessons learned
2:30 - 3:30
Building a Comprehensive HACCP Plan
Dr. Ernie McCullough, Vice-President Technical Services - Executive Director, ASI Food Safety Consultants
- Exploring what you should incorporate in your HACCP plan
- Realizing the difference between regulatory HACCP and scientific HACCP
- Marrying regulatory and scientific HACCP seamlessly
- Develop a HACCP strategy for food packagers
- Utilizing GMPs
- Leveraging HACCP for the fresh produce industry
| 3:30 - 3:45 |
Networking Break |
3:30 - 3:45 |
3:45 - 4:30
CGMPs: Where We've Been and Where We're Going - An Industry Perspective
Robert Garfield, Senior Vice-President Public Policy and International Affairs, American Frozen Food Institute
- Understanding the importance of CGMPs
- Exploring CGMPs history since 1968
- Examining FDA's 2004 modernization process
- The food industry's voluntary response
- Future considerations
4:30 - 5:30
Connect the Dots: How Food Safety, the Consumer, and Profitability Relate
Anthony Flood, Director - Food Safety and Defense, International Food Information Council
Caroline Smith DeWaal, Director of Food Safety, Center for Science in the Public Interest
- Understanding the correlation between food safety and consumer choice
- Leveraging your food safety practices to boost sales
- Communicating your organizations commitment to safety excellence through labeling
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