Program Information
2022 Meeting Calls
Click here to submit an abstract - deadline January 18, 2022
- 2022 Call for Symposium and Roundtable Proposals - deadline was October 5, 2021
- 2022 Call for Workshops - deadline was October 5, 2021
Please note: At this point in time, we expect all presenters and panel members will be in Pittsburgh to interact directly with attendees. We will monitor COVID-19 conditions and guidance making modifications, if necessary.
Preliminary Program Topics
| Acidified Foods: Addressing Challenges in Product Classification Beyond Food Safety. What Role Do Water, Syrups, and Other Low Water Activity Ingredients Play? |
| Addressing the Global Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance Using One Health Approach |
| Addressing Urban Agriculture with a One Health Approach to Food Safety Vulnerabilities and Successes |
| Adjunct Antimicrobial Treatments – What Are They, and How Do They Fit into a Sanitation Program? |
| Advances in Antimicrobial Technologies and Their Translation into Industry Practices |
| Advances in Pedagogy, Modality, and Accessibility for Virtual Food Safety Education |
| Agricultural Water Quality for Produce: Recent Advances, Current Challenges, and Future Opportunities |
| Application of New Technologies for Improved Food Safety |
| Back to Front and Front to Back: How to Manage out Toxins and Naturally Occurring Hazards throughout the Supply Chain |
| Can We Rely on Third Party Auditors to Assess Whether a Supplier’s Microbial and/or Chemical Test Methods Are the Right Fit for the Food Commodity? |
| Challenges in Implementing Food Safety Management Systems in Multinational Companies |
| Cleaning: The Perennial Overlooked Step in Sanitation and Vital Importance to Proper Environmental Surface Sanitization and Disinfection |
| Clean-Label Antimicrobial Innovations and Applications |
| Climate Change: The Impacts of Extreme Weather Events of the Safety of Our Food Supply |
| Computer Modeling - the Next Step in the Dairy Industry Evolution |
| Consequences of Proliferating Listeria Species for Detection Methods |
| Continuing the Comanagement Conversation: Establishing a Conceptual Framework for Understanding Trade-Offs and Synergies between Food Safety and Conservation Aims |
| COVID-19 Risk Management Practices in Food Markets: What Are the Impacts on Food Safety? |
| COVID-19: What Have We Learned to Make Our Food Systems More Resilient in the Future? |
| Cyber Attacks on the Food Industry: Virtual Threats with Real Consequences |
| Data Trusts for Food Protection |
| Data-Driven Sanitation Chemistry Selection: Does It Work Against Biofilms? |
| Developments in Sample Preparation: Implications in Pathogen Detection When Difficult Matrices Are Involved |
| E. coli Takes the Cake |
| Familiar Tools Made Better – Recent Developments and Applications of Risk Assessment and Predictive Modeling in Government and Industry |
| Flour and E. coli (STEC): What Can be Done to Prevent Outbreaks? |
| Food Defense: Proactive Approaches to Risk Mitigation |
| Food Safety Aspects of Controlled Environment Agriculture Systems for Fresh Produce Production: Current Industry Practices and Future Needs |
| Food Safety By Design |
| Food Safety in Hydroponic and Aquaponic Operations: Best Practices and the State of Research |
| Food Safety within Food Security in Africa: The Dilemma between Informal and Formal Markets |
| Foodborne Disease Outbreak Update |
| Foodborne Pathogens and Vulnerable Populations: Protecting and Educating the Immunocompromised |
| Get-Connected Market: Connecting IAFP Professionals on Food Safety in Africa |
| Global Recommendations on Risk Assessment of Allergens from the Ad Hoc Joint FAO/Who Expert Consultation |
| Gluten in Fermented or Hydrolyzed Foods- Regulatory, Consumer, and Analytical Perspectives |
| Goodbye Old Friend |
| Hold the Phone! the Role of Celebrity Chefs and Influencers in Food Safety Messaging |
| How Much S.M.a.R.T.E.R. Have Agricultural Water Quality Metrics Become? |
| How Relevant Is Finished Product Testing for Pathogens to Public Health Outcomes? |
| Identity Matters: Building a More Inclusive Workplace for Women in Food Safety |
| Implementation of HACCP-Based Egg Product Inspection |
| Increasing Access to and Cultivating Diversity within Food Safety Spaces |
| Infectious or Not Infectious? Advances in Virus Quantification and Translation to Health Risk |
| Lessons Learned from Produce Safety Rule Trainings to International Audiences in Latin America |
| Let’s Have the Talk: Are Cannabis-Infused Edibles Safe? |
| Life after Graduate School and Beyond Academia |
| Life at the Extremes: Fungal Spoilage in Low Water Activity, High Acid, and Thermally Processed Foods and Beverages |
| Look Around, You Have All It Takes to Make Your Food Safe! |
| Making a Big Deal over Small Things: Omics-Based Microbiological Risk Assessment |
| Managing Your Salmonella Risk: How Investing in Early Detection and Quantitation Methods Can Protect Your Poultry Business? |
| Metagenomics: Where Do Viruses and Parasites Fit in? |
| Method & Validation Hurdles to Substantiate Allergen Claims |
| Mind the Gap: The Role of the Frontline Voice in Food Safety Culture Improvement |
| Mission Impossible? Bringing Equivalency to Virtual Audits and Inspections |
| Mitigating the Risk of Pathogens in Food Products |
| Moving Closer to Zero – Challenges and Opportunities for Reducing Children’s Exposures to Toxic Elements from Foods |
| New Advances in Alicyclobacillus Detection, Differentiation, and Control |
| Non-Destructive Superior Sampling |
| Not All Acids Are Created Equal. |
| Novel Foods, Novel Challenges: Food Safety Concerns in Plant-Based and Novel Food Products |
| Parasites of Global Public Health Relevance |
| Persistence of Enteric Viruses in Low Moisture Environments |
| PMO Vs. FSMA: Is There a Win-Win Ahead? |
| Practical Approaches to Enhance Food Safety Culture: Shared Learnings from a Dairy Industrywide Program |
| Precision Genomics and the New Era of Food Safety |
| Public-Private Data Sharing: A New Opportunity for Risk-Based Decision Making in Food Safety |
| Rapid Enumeration and Viability: How Flow Cytometer Can Help with Dairy Quality, Water Quality, and More |
| Rapid Methods and Automation in Food Microbiology: 40 Years of Developments, Promises, and Disappointments |
| Rapid Response Research to Support the Food Industry through COVID-19 |
| Recent Advances in Control of Bacillus spp. – A Pathogen of Renewed Concern |
| Recent Advances in Phage-Based Systems for Food and Water Analysis |
| Recent Developments in Applications of Predictive Tools for Meat and Poultry Products |
| Recent State and Local Outbreak Investigations |
| Safety and Quality of Water Used and Reused in Fresh Produce Supply Chains |
| Spoiled Rotten Seafood? Advancements in Detecting Decomposition |
| Strengthening Food Safety Education and Research across Programmes and Departments in the Universities |
| Surrounded on All Sides: A Dive into the Unseen Microbiomes of Residential and Industrial Built Environments and Food Safety Implications |
| The Intersection of Adjacent and Nearby Land Use and Produce Safety |
| The Regulation of Food Ingredients in Diverse Global Markets |
| The Silent Pandemic: The Emergence and Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance in Food Systems in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region |
| The Use of Qmra for Food Safety Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries |
| To Biofilm, or Not to Biofilm: Listeria Monocytogenes’ Emerging Existential Dilemma |
| Transmissible Locus of Stress Tolerance (tLST) in Bacteria, a Potential Threat to Food Safety and Public Health |
| Troubles with Traceability: Working with Underserved Audiences to Help Reach Compliance |
| Understanding and Overcoming Challenges in Helping Underrepresented Minority Audiences Meet the FSMA PSR 112.22(c) Training Requirements |
| Using a HACCP-Mindset to Enable Enhanced Food Traceability |
| Using Consumer Research to Inform Labeling Policy for Food Products |
| Virtual Food Safety Monitoring, Auditing and Artificial Intelligence Applications |
| Watching GRAS Grow: Understanding What It Means to be GRAS in the U.S. |
| What Do Fresh-Cut Produce and Low Moisture Foods Processors Have in Common? New Considerations for Environmental Monitoring Programs |
| What Do We Know and Still Not Know about Pathogen Control in Low-Moisture Foods? |
| What Environmental Surveillance and Water Quality Can Tell Us about Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in Pre-Harvest Environments |
| What to Expect When You're Exporting: Using FDA's Export Certification Program |
| Where the Wild Things Are: Foraging for Fungi Food Safety |
| Whole Genome Sequencing: Challenging and Defining Foodborne Pathogen Species, Risk, and Virulence |
