T04 Risk Assessment and Epidemiology Technical Session

Glen 206
Convenors: Heejeong Latimer and Emma Hartnett

1:30 p.m. T4-01 Food Safety and Food Defense Simulation: A Realistic Approach— Willette M. Crawford, Angela M. Valadez , Karen Chong , Aparna Kothapalli , David Schroeder, Tejas Bhatt, Chih-hui Hsieh, Alok Chaturvedi, and Richard Linton, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

1: 45 p.m. T4-02 On-farm Risk: Prevalence of Zoonotic Giardia and Cryptosporidium in Adult Dairy Cows in Seven Eastern States— James Trout, Monica Santin, and Ronald Fayer, USDA-ARS-ANRI, Beltsville, MD, USA

2:00 p.m. T4-03 Generic Exposure Assessment Model of Salmonella spp. in Poultry— Heejeong Latimer, Greg Paoli, Emma Hartnett, Neal Golden, Abdel-Razak Kadry, and Janell Kause, USDA-FSIS, Washington, D.C., USA

2:15 p.m. T4-04 Predictive Model for Growth of Salmonella Typhimurium DT104. I. Ground Chicken Breast Meat— Thomas P. Oscar, USDA-ARS, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, MD, USA

2:30 p.m. T4-05 An International Outbreak of Salmonella Linked to Pet Treats— Lorraine McIntyre, S. Brisdon, L. Wilcott, L. MacDougall, E. Galanis, L. Crowe, R. Baer, L. Gustafson, A. Paccagnella, R. Sevigny, L. Chui, D. Everett, D. MacDonald, A. Ellis, R. Colindres and F. Angulo, BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2:45 p.m. T4-06 A Risk Assessment Model of Enterobacter sakazakii in Powdered Infant Formula—Greg Paoli, Emma Hartnett, and Todd Ruthman, Decisionalysis Risk Consultants, Ottawa, ON, Canada

3:00 Break

3:30 p.m. T4-07 The ‘Fermi Solution’ – A Potential Tool in Estimating the Number of Victims in Food Poisoning Outbreaks— Micha Peleg, Mark D. Normand, Joseph Horowitz, and Maria G. Corradini, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA

3:45 p.m. T4-08 Accounting for Hypothetical Variability (Over-Stratification) Inflates Uncertainty in Risk Assessment: The Case of Analyzing BSE Surveillance in Low Prevalence Countries— Mark Powell, Aaron Scott, and Eric Ebel, USDA, Washington D.C., USA

4:00 p.m. T4-09 Database on Breakdowns in Food Safety— ROY BETTS and Mike Stringer, Campden & Chorleywood Food Research Association, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, UK

4:15 p.m. T4-10 Calculation of Lot Rejection Rates and Risk Reduction through the Application of Microbiological Criteria— Greg Paoli and Emma Hartnett, Decisionalysis Risk Consultants, Inc., Ottawa, ON, Canada