Modeling Salmonella Growth and Inactivation for Small and Very Small Processors with Limited Data

Sep 11, 2023 (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Eastern Time)

Webinar Description

Organized by: The Meat and Poultry Quality and Safety PDG and the Microbial Modeling and Risk Analysis PDG

Predictive microbial models are a cost effective tool to assist small and very small meat plants as they strive to meet regulatory guidelines or handle process deviations. The data collected by these small operations may be incomplete and/or of low quality yet still be helpful in informing food safety decisions. This webinar will discuss the types of data limitations commonly occurring in these operations as well as techniques to address imperfect, missing and otherwise incomplete datasets that still result in robust decision making. Advise for industry members, extension specialists and/or researchers who assist small and very small meat industry members will be provided by speakers.

Learning Objectives:
•Understand the fundamentals of predictive microbial modeling for Salmonella in meat processing establishments
•Learn several types of data limitations commonly encountered when working with small and very small meat plants.
•Learn several ways of overcoming these data limitations while still making good quality science-based decisions.

Don Schaffner, Presenter - Rutgers University
James Dickson, Presenter - Iowa State University
Dennis Seman, Moderator - DL Seman Consulting, LLC