North Carolina Produce Safety Professionals Conference
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Collapse ▲The NC Fresh Produce Safety Task Force hosted the NC Produce Safety Professionals Conference on March 14, 2018 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 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 a.m. | Registration and Welcome | Chris Gunter and Larry Wooten | NCSU and NC Farm Bureau | Link |
8:30 a.m. | Case Study of Listeria in the Retail Environment | Ben Chapman | Extension Food Safety Specialist and Associate Professor Agricultural and Human Sciences NC State University |
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9:00 a.m. | 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 a.m. | 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 |
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10:00 a.m. | Overlap of FMSA Produce Safety and Human Foods Rules | Anita MacMullan | Director, Food and Drug Division NCDA&CS |
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10:30 a.m. | BREAK | |||
11:00 a.m. | FSMA and State Implementation including On Farm Readiness Reviews | Bob Ehart | Senior Policy & Science Advisor – NASDA Arlington, VA |
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11:30 a.m. | What do On Farm Readiness Reviews Look Like? | Chris Gunter | Extension Vegetable Production Specialist Horticultural Science North Carolina State University |
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12:00 p.m. | LUNCH | |||
1:00 p.m. | 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 |
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1:30 p.m. | Agricultural Water | Trevor Suslow | Extension Research Specialist Department of Plant Sciences Davis, CA |
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2:00 p.m. | Soil Amendments | Pat Milner | Research Microbiologist Environmental Microbial & Food Safety Lab USDA, ARS, NEA, BARC, EMFSL Beltsville, MD |
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2:30 p.m. | BREAK | |||
3:00 p.m. | Role of NCDA in FSMA Implementation | Joe Reardon | Consumer Protection, Assistant Commissioner of Agriculture, NCDA&CS |
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3:30 p.m. | Packing House Sanitation | Trevor Suslow | Extension Research Specialist Department of Plant Sciences Davis, CA |
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4:00 p.m. | 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 |
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4:15 p.m. | 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