Workshop Focuses On Microbial Produce Safety Systems
October 27, 2015
The annual Produce Safety Workshop will be held Nov. 3-5 at the Buehler Alumni Center on the campus of University of California (UC)-Davis. This workshop is an integrated approach to building a foundation of awareness and improved understanding of the current scientific basis for produce microbial safety systems and preventive controls.
The course is designed to provide participants with a framework for decision-making on key topics common to industry guidance and standards as well as the multiple layers of evolving federal regulatory compliance rule-making requirements. The curriculum is a blend of fundamental, applied, and practical information that will challenge existing knowledge and assumptions regarding the facts of systems-oriented tactics in developing, implementing, managing, and complying with evolving produce food safety programs and finalized food safety rulemaking.
The course is an interactive-based delivery of formal lectures, group assessment of case examples, and break-out group problem-solving challenges. Participants are assumed to be familiar with the basic elements of prerequisite GAPs and GHPs programs and harmonized produce safety audit criteria. The emphasis of the curriculum is the science-basis for audit standards and preparing for using audits and targeted microbiological testing to improve performance. Key resources and tools for hazard awareness, risk identification, risk-based preventive controls, and verification of corrective actions will be provided. Instructors will provide a strong emphasis in practical applications and “boots-on-the-ground” experience in dealing with programmatic and day-to-day produce safety challenges.
Presenters include
- Trevor Suslow, Dept. of Plant Sciences, UC-Davis
- Linda Harris, Food Science and Technology; Western Center for Food Safety, UC-Davis
- Michele Jay Russell, Western Center for Food Safety, UC-Davis
- Michelle Danyluk, University of Florida, Food Science & Citrus Research and Education Center.
- David Gombas, United Fresh Produce Association.
- Elis Owens, Birko Corporation.
- Bonnie Fernandez-Fenaroli, Center for Produce Safety.
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