Emerging Issues in Food Safety, Locally. Nationally and Globally

Description:

The food safety landscape is changing and this presents a litany of challenges. Learn about the issues and how can they be addressed. Understand what responsibilities each of us must adopt to help ensure that our food supply is safe. This webinar will address the complexity of defining safe food and examine the factors that impact on microbiological food safety. We will look at the changing nature of foodborne/food transmitted pathogens and the influence of demographics and geography on the changing landscape. The webinar will also discuss roles and responsibilities for mitigating food contamination and foodborne illness.(Read More)

Topics covered include:

·         Defining food safety

•          Risks and realities

•          Statistical reliability 

•          The multiplicity of impacting factors 

•          The changing landscape

•          Mitigating the risks    

• Food production
• Food safety Education

Would benefit from this topic:

•          Consumers

•          Regulatory authorities,

•          Food microbiologists,

•          Food producers

•          Teachers.

Speaker: Michael Brodsky,

Michael has a post-graduate degree from the University of Toronto, School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. eHe has been an Environmental Microbiologist for more than 46 years, as a research scientist and Laboratory Director in both the public and private sectors. He currently operates as the President of Brodsky Consultants. He is a Past President of the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP), the Ontario Food Protection Association (OFPA) and AOAC International. He serves as Chair for the AOAC Expert Review Committee for Microbiology, as a scientific reviewer in Microbiology for the AOAC OMA and the AOAC Research Institute, as a reviewer for Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater and as a chapter editor on QA for the Compendium of Methods in Microbiology. He is also a technical assessor in microbiology for the Standard Council of Canada and Certified by Exemplar Global as a lead auditor/assessor for the Canadian Association for Laboratory Accreditation (CALA).

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