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Microbial risk assessment
I'm cross posting the following from the RiskAnal server, as there
are obviously a number of people on RadSafe who are interested in
the subject.
--Susan Gawarecki
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:18:45 -0500
From: Don Schaffner <schaffner@aesop.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Insider's Look at Microbial Risk Assessment Conference
AN INSIDER'S LOOK AT MICROBIAL RISK ASSESSMENT
IAMFES Sponsored Event
April 12-13, 1999
DoubleTree Hotel
National Airport
Arlington, Virginia
Microbial Quantitative Risk Assessment QRA. is a new, rapidly
evolving tool which has important implications for HACCP, food
safety regulations, as well as research and teaching. Microbial
QRA can be thought of as the next step in the evolution of HACCP,
as hazard analyses become more quantitative and less qualitative.
It has already impacted the development of new regulations for
shell eggs and gives every indication of playing a key role in the
development of other regulations. The science of microbial risk
assessment is evolving, and there may be multiple risk
assessment approaches to address specific aspects of a problem.
This workshop will compare and contrast two risk assessments
conducted to address the risk of Salmonella enteritidis in shell
eggs to illustrate how different data and assumptions can impact
the resulting risk estimate. The workshop will also demonstrate
how distributions are derived for data, how they are input into
commercial risk assessment software, and how the software can
be used to look at "What if?" scenario I come to this workshop and
learn more about how this has occurred, and what the future might
hold.
Program:
Morning - April 12, 1999: Introduction to Microbial Risk
Assessment The Basics of Quantitative Risk Assessment Issues
in Using Existing Data Combining Data from Different Sources
Estimating Variance
Afternoon - April 12, 1999: Details of Microbial Risk Assessment
Model Structure, Variability and Uncertainty Choosing Appropriate
Statistical Distribution Simulation Parameters
Morning - April 13, 1999: Using Risk Assessments Interpreting
Risk Assessments Reporting Results to Risk Managers and the
Public
Who Should Attend? Food industry microbiologists, HACCP
coordinators, government food microbiologists, food microbiology
researchers, microbial modelers and anyone else interested in an
in-depth look at microbial risk assessment.
Moderator and Facilitator: Don Schaffner, Ph.D. Rutgers University
E-mail: schaffner@aesop.rutgers.edu Dr. Schaffner is the Lead
Scientist with the Food Risk Analysis Initiative at Rutgers. His
research interests include modeling microbial behavior in foods and
microbial quantitative risk assessment.
Workshop Presenters:
Richard C. Whiting, Ph.D. Food and Drug Administration E-mail:
rwhiting@bangate.fda.gov Dr. Whiting has an active research
program in modeling the growth and survival of foodborne microbial
pathogens. This research ranges from formulating new
mathematical models to composing a personal computer software
program to make the models easily and widely available.
William H. Ross, Ph.D. Director, Bureau of Biostatistics and
Computing Applications Health Canada E-mail: William_Ross@hc-
sc.gc.ca Dr. Ross has worked for the last 8 years for the Food
Program of Health Canada in the area of statistical applications to
predictive microbiology, microbial risk assessment, and micro
nutrient risk assessment. He presently leads the project for the
renewal of the Risk Management Framework for Health Canada's
Health Protection Branch.
Ewen C. D. Todd Health Canada E-mail: ewen_todd@hc-sc.gc.ca
Dr. Todd has been a research microbiologist in the Bureau of
Microbial Hazards for 30 years working in methods development for
pathogens, foodborne disease surveillance, costs of foodborne
disease and risk assessments for pathogens on foods. He is
currently responsible for the Health Canada quantitative risk
assessment for Salmonella Enteritidis in shell eggs.
Greg Paoli Decisionalysis Risk Consultants, Inc. E-mail:
gmpaoli@bvx.ca Greg Paoli is a principal in Decisionalysis Risk
Consultants, Inc. He specializes in the development of risk
assessment models to support decisions primarily in the fields of
food safety and environmental health.
Cost:
Before 3/12/99 IAMFES Member - $350 Non Member - $485 After
3/12/99 IAMFES Member - $425 Non Member - $560 To Register:
contact Julie Cattanach at the IAMFES office.
http://www.iamfes.org
IAMFES
6200 Aurora Ave.,Suite 200W
Des Moines, 50322-2863
Tel: (515)276-3344 or (800) 369-6337
Fax: (515)276-8655
E-Mail: iamfes@iamfes.org.
Don Schaffner, Ph.D. Schaffner@aesop.rutgers.edu
Food Risk Analysis Initiative FAX: (732) 932-9611x263
65 Dudley Rd - Rutgers University Voice: (732) 932-9611x214
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8520 http://foodsci.rutgers.edu
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look
so
long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been
opened
for us.
- Helen Keller
If you want to succeed in this world you don't have to be much
cleverer
than other
people, you just have to be one day earlier.
- Leo Szilard, 1898-1964
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Susan L. Gawarecki, Ph.D., P.G.
Executive Director
Oak Ridge Reservation Local Oversight Committee
(423) 483-1333, fax (423) 482-6572
E-mail loc@icx.net
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