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Food Safety Considerations in Alleviating Hunger and Food
Insecurity
Multi-level Approach to Combating Antimicrobial Resistance
Pathogen Detection and Food Microbiome Characterization
Using a Metagenomics Approach
Soil Contamination with Foodborne Bacteria

Technical Sessions
Low-water Activity Foods and Food Processing Technologies
Viruses and Parasites and Communication Outreach and
Education

12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Business Meeting
Afternoon Sessions - 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Alignment between Reference Microbiological Methods -
Reality or Dream?
Converting WGS and Bioinformatic Jargon into Plain
Language and Understanding the Science
Food Fraud - Progress and Plans for Prevention and
Management
International Recognition of National Food Safety Systems
Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Transparency? Different
Perspectives on Deciding When to Communicate during a
Food Safety Outbreak
Norovirus and Hepatitis A Virus Contamination: Emerging
Monitoring Methods and Their Future Applications
Salmonella in Poultry: Where Do We Go from Here?
The Saga Continues...What's on Your COA? How Can We
Effectively Utilize This Tool?
Validation and Verification - The Dos, the Don'ts and the
Differences
Building a Network of Accredited Governmental Human
and Animal Food Laboratories: Benefits to Public Health
and Industry
Can We Ever Accomplish a Standardized Protocol for
Validating WGS-based Assays for the Detection of Foodborne
Pathogenic Microbes?
Developments and Novel Applications of Microbiome
Research for Pre- and Post-Harvest Food Safety and Quality
Help! I'm New Management. How Do I Convince My Colleagues
Food Safety is Important?
How Omics is Changing the Food-safety Landscape in
Foodborne Parasitology: Sequencing, Not Just Seeing is
Believing!
Process Validations - Stories from the Trenches
Responsible Use of Antibiotics - Are We Making Progress?
The Conundrum of Campylobacter Source Attribution

Technical Sessions
Retail and Foodservice Safety
Food Chemical Hazards and Food Allergens and Dairy

WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 2018
10:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Poster Session 3

General Microbiology, Laboratory and Detection Methods,
Modeling and Risk Assessment, Packaging, Dairy,
Antimicrobial

Morning Sessions - 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Environmental Pathogen Monitoring and Control for the
Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Preventive Controls
Implementation

Food Safety of Hydroponic Fruits and Vegetables -
What We Do and Don't Know
Food Safety and Hurricanes - The Eye of the Storm
NGS Case Studies Beyond WGS and Outbreak Investigations
Novel Processing Technologies to Improve Food Safety and
Quality
State and Local Regulatory Agency Foodborne Illness
Investigations
Surreptitious Connections: Exploring the Emerging Role
of Heavy Metals in Antimicrobial Resistance
The Global Food Safety Impact of Cyclospora cayetanensis:
An Issue Crossing Continents
The Grey Area of Science: "Predatory" Publishers and
Questionable Conferences
Enhancing Food Safety: Translating Molecular Biology to
Microbiology: A Dialog between Molecular and Traditional
Microbiologists
Impacts of Marine Biotoxins and Lessons from the Past
to Protect the Future
Improving Safety of Sprouted Seeds
Insights into Food Safety Careers Roundtable
Marrying Nanotechnology and Food Packaging: Benefits
and Issues for Food Safety
Maximizing Food Safety and Quality through Application
of Hygienic Design
Understanding Antibiotic Resistance from an Environmental
Perspective
WGS & Mass Spectrometry: The Paved Road to Routine
Food Applications!

Technical Sessions
Pre-harvest Food Safety and Meat, Poultry and Eggs
Antimicrobials

Afternoon Sessions - 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Closing in on the Research Gaps with Listeria monocytogenes,
Salmonella, and Viruses in Low-moisture Foods
Culturally Targeted Messages and Methods: The Next
Generation of Food Safety Education Strategies
Risk Assessment of Listeriosis: Latest Developments
for Food Safety Risk Management
Science, Safety, and Sanity: Hot Topics in Food Toxicology
Spores in the Global Dairy Industry Significance, Issues
and Challenges
Starting Up after a Contamination Related Shut Down
The Future of Food Microbiology is Extra CRISPy: Novel
Applications of CRISPR Technology
Use of Whole Genomic Sequencing Data for Source
Attribution of Foodborne Pathogens

Utilizing Big Data to Revolutionize Food Safety, Traceability
and Transparency in Food Systems

Technical Sessions
General Microbiology
Laboratory and Detection Methods

4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
John H. Silliker Lecture - Heroes Past and Future

Ann Marie McNamara, Vice President, Food and
Essentials Safety and Quality Assurance, Target
Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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