Program Information
IAFP 2023 Preliminary Schedule of Events
IAFP 2023 Call for Abstracts - deadline January 17, 2023
Call for Symposia and Roundtables - deadline was October 4, 2022
Call for Workshops - deadline was October 4, 2022
Preliminary Program Topics
pending final acceptance in February 2023
| Alt Protein & Novel Foods... What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Prioritizing Food Safety in Food Tech 2.0 |
| An Ever-Changing Landscape: Can Using Indicator Organisms and Run Time Validation Studies Allow Industry to Demonstrate Process Control While Maintaining Product Safety in Low Moisture Foods? |
| Animal Feeding Operations, Environmental Hazards: Problems, Solutions, and Incentives |
| Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Food Safety: An Update and Future Trends |
| Aquaculture and Aquaponics: Waste Not, Want Not |
| Are Rapid Methods Dead? What Methods Do Industry Really Need in the Current Climate? |
| Assessment of the Potential Allergenicity of Foods from Novel and Alternative Sources of Protein |
| Beef Quality and Food Safety in the Canadian Beef Industry |
| Beyond Aflatoxin: Mitigating Mycotoxin Risks in Animal Food, Feed and Pet Foods |
| Bridging the Gap: From the Lab to Real-World Use |
| Building Resilience in Food Systems: Lessons Learned from Infant Formula Safety Challenges |
| Building Strategies for Prevention |
| Campylobacter-Associated Food Safety |
| Challenges and Opportunities Navigating Requirements of Ready-to-Eat and Not Ready-to-Eat for Refrigerated and Frozen Foods |
| Chinks in the Armor: The Local and Global Ramifications of Food Safety Challenges in Low- and Middle-Income Countries |
| Consumer Foodborne Illness Complaint Systems: New Approaches, New Insights – and Potentially New Risks – with a Conventional Food Safety Surveillance Tool |
| Control of Cronobacter and Salmonella in Low Moisture RTE Facilities Using Dairy Examples |
| Controlled Environment Agriculture (Hydroponic/Aquaponic) Research Updates |
| Cost of U.S. Foodborne Illness in the United States and Economic Tools to Help States Communicate the Value of Foodborne Outbreak Investigations |
| Crowdsourced Data for Foodborne Illness Outbreak Investigations: Utility and Challenges |
| Crunching Beneath the Shell: Demystifying Insect Protein & Risks for Food and Feed |
| Cyclosporiasis in the Americas |
| Data Sharing in the Digital Age of Food Safety |
| Deploying Genomic and Metagenomic Tools to Tackle Animal Food Safety Challenges |
| Digital Transformation of Data: Trials, Tribulations, and Lessons Learned from the Healthcare Industry |
| Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Considerations across the Food Supply Chain |
| Educating and Protecting the Next Generation of Consumers: Key Needs and Opportunities for Food Safety Outreach Among Children, Youth, and Their Caregivers |
| Ensuring Food Safety within Global Supply Chains: Shared Learnings from Global Food Safety Enforcement Agencies and Educators |
| Ensuring Honey Authenticity - Recent Developments |
| Establishing Microbiological Performance Standards for Food Safety |
| Food Allergens in Foodservice - Detection, Control, and Management |
| Food Safety and Packaging Sustainability: Protecting Our People and Our Planet |
| Food Safety Culture and HACCP – the Unification Necessary for Effective Food Safety Management |
| Food Safety Extension Efforts for Small-Scale Urban Agriculture in the United States |
| Food Safety of Infant Foods: Care for Our Most Precious |
| Food Safety Risk Dashboards, Network Analyses, and Surveys: New Risk-Based Tools to Support Food Safety Decisions in a Global Economy |
| Food Safety within Horticultural Sector in Africa |
| Foodborne Listeriosis in Canada: Are We There Yet? Insights into Progress and Lessons Learned Since Our Infamous Deli-Meat Outbreak |
| Forever Chemicals: The Past, Present, and Future of PFAS in Food |
| Fresh Produce Sanitation Couch to 5K |
| From Bench-Top to Scale-up: The Unspoken Food Safety Challenges of Research and Development |
| From Farm to Food: A New Perspective on Heavy Metals in Human Diets |
| From Inspection to Insight: Using Regulatory Retail Inspection Data to Improve Food Safety Policies and Practices |
| Genomics in Food Safety: How to Use the Tools to Prevent Outbreaks |
| How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Food Chemicals |
| How to Engage Diverse Populations with Culturally Competent Campaigns |
| How to Use Data to Identify Key Needs and Drive Evidence-Based Organizational Food Safety Culture Change: Learnings from Dairy Industry |
| How Wet Is Wet Enough? the Importance of Proper Hydration in Thermal Processing of Aseptic and ESL Refrigerated Beverages. |
| Human Enteric Viruses, a Risk Analysis Approach for the Soft Fruit Industry |
| Implementation of a Risk-Based Supply Chain Control Program – an Industry Perspective |
| Internal Audits: Are They Underestimated As a Critical Management Tool? |
| Investigating Ambiguous Outbreaks and Adverse Events |
| Is Cultural Confirmation of Pathogens Obsolete? |
| Latest Developments in International Organisations Making Food Safety Improvements and Successes Measurable |
| Less Than 5 Log Reduction: When Is It Appropriate? – a Food Industry Perspective |
| Lessons Learned from Root Cause Analysis Conducted to Identify Causes of Viral and Parasitic Diseases Outbreak |
| Lost in Translation: Advancements and Challenges to Translating Laboratory Findings to Real-Life Application |
| Making Your Environmental Monitoring Data Count |
| Mexican Papaya Safety: A Case Study in Collaboration, Education and Root Cause Analysis |
| Microbial Modeling for Food Safety: What Are Some of the Liability Issues? |
| Molding the Future: Best Practices and New Horizons in Modeling and Quantification of Molds |
| Not Your Grandfather’s Biofilm – What Are Dry Surface Biofilms, and Why Are They More Deceptive Than Their Good Ol’ Slimy Counterparts? |
| Novel Approaches to Monitoring Agricultural Surface Water Quality |
| Outbreak Symposium |
| Overcoming Obstacles: How Lgbtqia+ Individuals Can Thrive in the Field of Food Safety |
| Parasites and Virus of Fecal Origin in the Environment: New Perspectives for Detection, Surveillance, and Control. |
| Potentially Carcinogenic Compounds in Food and Water (Ethyl Carbamate, Acrylamide, and Chlorine Byproducts) |
| Poultry Sampling Symposiumthe Path to Improved Poultry Safety through Salmonella Assessments |
| Practical & Effective Approaches and Uses of Data in Retail & Foodservice Food Safety Programs |
| Practical Approaches to Compliance with the Intentional Adulteration Rule, Benchmarks, and Challenges |
| Preparation and Continuous Professional Development – the Essentials of Effective Food Safety Audits and Inspections |
| Pressing Food Safety Issues in Some Developing Countries: Challenges and Current Trends |
| Produce Safety Education and Extension Outreach Efforts Targeting Spanish-Speaking Communities in the United States |
| Produce Safety Solutions: Industry’s Role in Applying Policy and Science into Action |
| Producing Safer Sprouts: Advancements in Sprout and Seed Safety Since the Implementation of FSMA |
| Progressing the Field of Parasite Genomics to Improve Food Safety |
| Queso Fresco-Type Cheeses – Listeriosis Outbreak Prevention Strategies |
| Reassess the Starting Point: Consideration of Pathogen Fitness Bias in Rapid Enrichment Procedures |
| Recent Progress in Evaluating the Infectivity of Human Noroviruses and Their Potential Application in Food Safety |
| Sanitary Design for Automation and Digital Transformation |
| Sanitation Deserts - Improving Sanitation Availability to Small and Medium-Sized Produce Operations |
| Second Get-Connected Market: Connecting Iafp Professionals on Food Safety in Africa Even Better! |
| Serogroup Independent Detection and Isolation of Shiga Toxin-Producing E. coli, Are We Really Ready for This? |
| South-South Symposium - Learning from Large-Scale Food Safety Interventions in Wet Markets of Africa and Asia |
| Sustainability: Is Food Safety Compromised As a By-Product? |
| Testing and Improving HACCP Team Proficiency to Strengthen Food Safety Culture |
| Testing for Non-Cultivable Foodborne Pathogens: Interpretation of Molecular-Based Results in the Context of Public Health Risk |
| The Importance of Diversity in Building Large Integrated Food Safety Initiatives and Projects |
| The New Codex Alimentarius Framework for Safe Water-Reuse in Food Production and Processing Put to the Test in Practice for Fruit and Vegetable Food Products. |
| To Eat or Not to Eat: The Utility and Challenges of Using Risk-Benefit Assessments for Decision-Making in Food Safety |
| Tools Fit for the Task: Water Technical Forum to Support Risk-Based Agricultural Water Assessments |
| Under the Weather: Influence of Weather Conditions on Produce Safety |
| Understanding Cell-Cultured Seafood and Its Food Safety Challenges |
| U.S. Army Funded Research in Food Safety |
| Wait, a Sanitizer Is What Now?! Paradigm Shifts in Sanitizer Regulations and How They Impact Food Safety and Sanitation Application |
| What Could “Sharing Data” Actually Look like in an Outbreak? |
| What’s Cooking? – Lethality Processes for Scientific Gaps in FSIS’ Appendix A |
| When the Material Isn’t Foreign: Identification and Mitigating the Risk of Inherent Physical Safety Hazards |
