North Carolina Produce Safety Professionals Conference

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The NC Fresh Produce Safety Task Force hosted the NC Produce Safety Professionals Conference on March 14, 2018 from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm at the NC Farm Bureau Conference Facility (5301 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh, NC).

There was a good turnout for the Conference with a mix of produce professionals, Task Force members, county extension agents, farm produce safety officers, regulators, and association executives working directly with produce farms in the area of fresh produce safety and the Food Safety Modernization Act.

Agenda/Presentations

Time Title Speaker’s Name Affiliation Presentation Links
8:00 AM Registration and Welcome  Chris Gunter and Larry Wooten  NCSU and NC Farm Bureau  Link
8:30 AM Case Study of Listeria in the Retail Environment Ben Chapman Extension Food Safety Specialist and Associate Professor
Agricultural and Human Sciences
NC State University
9:00 AM How a Foodborne
Outbreak is Investgated		 Nicole Lee NC Department of Health and Human Services 2001 Mail Service Center
State Public Health Agency		  Link
9:30 AM PSN Outreach & Regulatory Infrastructure Diane Ducharme and Nicole Clausen Consumer Safety Officer, Produce Safety Network at Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition at FDA;
Food Program expert
Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA)
Office of Food Feed Operations
Food Feed Program Operations Branch		  Link
10:00 AM Overlap of FMSA Produce Safety and Human Foods Rules Anita MacMullan Director, Food and Drug Division
NCDA&CS		  Link
10:30 AM BREAK
11:00 AM FSMA and State  Implementation including On Farm Readiness Reviews Bob Ehart Senior Policy & Science Advisor – NASDA
Arlington, VA
11:30 AM What do On Farm Readiness Reviews Look Like? Chris Gunter Extension Vegetable Production Specialist
Horticultural Science
North Carolina State University		  Link
12:00 PM LUNCH
1:00 PM GAP Audit vs Inspection Panel Discussion Moderator: Elena Rogers
Panel: Chris Harris, Ronnie Wynn		 Area Specialized Agent, Agriculture – Food Safety – Fresh Produce Western NC;
Food and Drug Proction Division
NCDA&CSCooperative Grading Service
Marketing Division
NCDA&CS
1:30 PM Agricultural Water Trevor Suslow Extension Research Specialist
Department of Plant Sciences
Davis, CA
2:00 PM Soil Amendments Pat Milner Research Microbiologist
Environmental Microbial & Food Safety Lab
USDA, ARS, NEA, BARC, EMFSL
Beltsville, MD		  Link
2:30 PM BREAK
3:00 PM Role of NCDA in FSMA Implementation Joe Reardon Consumer Protection, Assistant Commissioner of Agriculture,
NCDA&CS
3:30 PM Packing House Sanitation  Trevor Suslow  Extension Research Specialist
Department of Plant Sciences
Davis, CA
4:00 PM Information Delivery and Consistency Elena Rogers and Chip Simmons Area Specialized Agent, Agriculture – Food Safety – Fresh Produce Western NC;
Area Specialized Agent, Agriculture – Food Safety – Fresh Produce Eastern NC		  Link
4:15 PM Wrap Up/ Final Thoughts  Chris Gunter  NCSU

For More Information about this event contact:
Dr. Chris Gunter, NC State University, Horticultural Science

Vegetable Production Specialist/Associate Professor
Horticultural Science
North Carolina State University
230 Kilgore Hall, Box 7609
Raleigh, NC  27695-7609
(o) 919-513-2807
(f) 919-515-2505
cgunter@ncsu.edu

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Photo of Elena Rogers, N.C. Cooperative ExtensionElena RogersArea Specialized Agent, Agriculture - Food Safety - Fresh Produce Western NC Serves 49 Counties and EBCIBased out of Horticultural Science(828) 352-2519 elena_rogers@ncsu.eduHorticultural Science - NC State University

Contributing Specialist

Photo of Chip Simmons, N.C. Cooperative ExtensionDr. Chip Simmons, IIIArea Specialized Agent, Agriculture - Food Safety Serves 51 CountiesBased out of Horticultural Science(919) 414-5632 odsimmon@ncsu.eduHorticultural Science - NC State University
Updated on Jun 12, 2018
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