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Preliminary Program Sunday, JuLy 12 Opening Session – 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Ivan Parkin Lecture – Paul A. Hall, AIV Microbiology and Food Safety Consultants, LLC, Hawthorn Woods, Illinois Technical Sessions T4 Education and Novel Laboratory Methods T5 Produce afternoon – 12:15 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. IAFP Business Meeting afternoon – 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Symposia S16 Facing a Persistent Challenge: Salmonella Control in LowMoisture Foods S17 Food Safety in Global Food Trade S18 Looking for Thresholds: A Multi-Disciplinary “Key Events” Approach S19 Round Up Your Pathogen Plan: Enrichment, Sample Preparation and the Legal and Social Perspectives S20 Environmental Reservoirs of Major and Emerging Foodborne Pathogens S21 Integrating Epidemiology and Microbiology to Solve Complex Food Safety Problems Technical Session T6 Meat and Poultry WedneSday, JuLy 15 all day – 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Poster Session P3 General Microbiology, Antimicrobials, Produce, Dairy and Epidemiology Morning – 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Symposia S22 Third Party Certification Systems: Can It Make Our Food Safer? S23 A Systems Approach to Minimize Escherichia coli O157:H7 Food Safety Hazards Associated with Fresh and Fresh Cut Leafy Greens S24 Emerging Chemical Hazards in Food Roundtable RT3 Measuring and Interpreting Food Handling Behavior and Its Impact on Policy Emerging Chemical Hazards in Food Technical Sessions T7 Risk Assessment, Spoilage, and Beverages and Water T8 Pathogens afternoon – 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Symposia S25 Food Safety Challenges for Unrefrigerated Display of Readyto-Eat Foods S26 Shigatoxin E. coli: The Bad, the Worse, and the Pathogenic S27 Food Defense Session (Title to be determined) S28 CSI Beverage Plant: Case Studies in Yeast and Mold Spoilage S29 Food Safety Programs Across an Integrated Poultry Industry Debate Pros and Cons of Zero-Tolerance Policy for Pathogens in Food MOnday, JuLy 13 all day – 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Poster Session P1 Meat and Poultry, Pathogens, Seafood, and Education Morning– 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Symposia S1 ICMSF Symposium on International Developments in Food Safety S2 Sterilant Gas Decontamination of Food and Environments and Emerging Technologies S3 Harnessing Irradiation for the Marketplace Today S4 Epidemiological Trends of Noroviruses Roundtables RT1 Public Health Decision Making – A Character Building Exercise RT2 Selling Food Safety to Employees: Creating a Fully Functioning Food Safety Culture in Retail Grocery and Foodservice Operations Technical Session T1 Dairy, General Microbiology, and Sanitation afternoon – 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Symposia S5 Pathogen and Spoilage Persistence in the Processing Environment and Food Products: Where, Why and How We Know S6 Zapped! Optimizing the Consumer Experience of Microwave Cooking through Labeling, Infrared Thermography, and Validation S7 Listeria monocytogenes Controls from Local to Global – Are They Working? S8 The Effect of Climate Change on Food Availability and Safety S9 Tracking and Tracing Technologies – Do You Know Where Your Steak and Tomatoes Come From? S10 International Food Protection Issues: Overview and Global Commodity Trade Technical Sessions T2 Antimicrobial, Seafood, and Non-microbial Food Safety T3 Applied Laboratory Methods TueSday, JuLy 14 all day – 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Poster Session P2 – Risk Assessment, Applied Laboratory Methods, Novel Laboratory Methods, Toxicology, Water, Sanitation, and Microbial Spoilage Morning – 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Symposia S11 Foodborne Disease Outbreak Update: Campylobacter in Fresh Peas, Salmonella Schwarzengrund in Pet Food, Salmonella Saintpaul in Tomatoes/Peppers S12 Attribution of Foodborne Illness/Disease S13 Best Practices for Cleaning and Validation S14 Enhancing Oyster Safety through Vibrio Control Plans S15 Less Recognized and Underappreciated Foodborne Pathogens – No Crystal Ball for the Next Big Bug 4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. John H. Silliker Lecture – The 2008 Irish Dioxin Crisis: A Public Health, Food Safety, Economic, Legal, or a Risk Communication Challenge? – Dr. Patrick Wall, University College Dublin, School of Public Health and Population Sciences, Belfield, Ireland Program subject to change APRIL 2009 | FOOD PROTECTION TRENDS 239

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