Meat Industry Food Safety Conference

Wednesday, September 4, 2024
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM	Registration Missouri St. Entrance

Thursday, September 5, 2024
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM	Registration Missouri St. Entrance
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Breakfast Indiana F-G
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM	Welcome & Opening Remarks Indiana A-E
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM	Collaboration, Coordination and Cooperation: The Power Behind an Operative Food Safety Team Indiana A-E Jennifer Williams - JW Consulting
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM	Confident Communication in a Food Safety Crisis Indiana A-E Jacque Matsen - Relate Strategies
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM	Break Indiana F-G
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	USDA FSIS Regulatory Update Indiana A-E Emilio Esteban - USDA Office of Food Safety
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM	Lunch Indiana F-G
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM	Salmonella - Research & Regulatory Updates Indiana A-E Suzanne Finstad - Tyson Foods, Inc. John Schmidt - USDA/ARS Brian Eyink - Hogan Lovells
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM	Break Indiana F-G
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM	Concurrent Session: Current Salmonella Research Updates for the Pork Industry Indiana A-E Sara Gragg - University of Wisconsin-Madison	Concurrent Session: Salmonella Updates in Beef Florida - Illinois Mindy Brashears - Texas Tech University
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM	Break Indiana F-G
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM	Data Collection, Visualization, & Record Keeping's Role in Food Safety Indiana A-E Sharon K. K. Beals - WMIN Chelsie Romberger - Bell & Evans Mark McInnes - Maple Leaf Benjamin Stellmacher - Johnsonville, LLC
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM	Reception Indiana Foyer

Friday, September 6, 2024
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM	Optional ARS Listening Session/Breakfast Michigan-Texas
7:00 AM - 1:00 PM	Registration Missouri St. Entrance
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM	Breakfast Indiana F-G
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Start with Why: Leveraging Purpose to Improve Food Safety Indiana A-E Hinda Mitchell - Inspire PR Group
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM	Break Indiana F-G
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM	Concurrent Session: Future-Proofing Your Plant Florida - Illinois Kevin Guernsey - Intralox Dan Schmitz - Commercial Food Sanitation Olga Pawluczyk - P&P Optica Inc.	Concurrent Session: Demonstration of a Pipeline to Investigate the Genetic Relatedness Among Salmonella Isolates Indiana A-E Hiruni Wijesena - USDA-ARS U.S. Meat Animal Research Center
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM	Break Indiana F-G
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM	Concurrent Session: EHEC Testing: What Actually works Florida - Illinois Prashant Singh - Florida State University	Concurrent Session: Intersection Between Food Safety & Preventative Maintenance Indiana A-E Matt Thomas - Tyson Foods
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	Lunch Indiana F-G
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM	Packaging's Role in Food Safety Indiana A-E Terry Grill - Sealed Air Corporation / Cryovac
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM	Recalls - New Directive & Panel Discussion with Processors Indiana A-E Kirby Childs - Greater Omaha Beef Packing Norm Robertson - Meat Institute Sharon K. K. Beals - WMIN Maria Wedel - Cargill
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM	Closing Remarks

Agenda