38th Annual Food Safety & Sanitation Workshop

November 6-7, 2018

Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel

Portland, Oregon
Attendee registration is now open! Please visit our website for additional workshop information and online registration:  http://ext100.wsu.edu/foodsanitation/

 

Attendee registration is now open.

Early registration fee is $250/attendee by October 22, 2018.

Late registration fee is $290/attendee after October 22, 2018.

 

Room blocks sell out quickly, so please make your hotel reservations early.  Here is the link to room block info:  https://extension.wsu.edu/foodsanitation/hotel/

 

Nominate your colleague for the 2018 Line Worker award! Nomination process and form is all online:  https://extension.wsu.edu/foodsanitation/line-worker-award/

 

Proposed Agenda*

November 6, 2018

8:15 am General Sessions I – FSMA Implementation: Learnings from the Initial Inspections

FDA Representative – TBA

 

10:15 am Workshop Session I

• ^Continuing and Emerging Biological Risks – Stephanie Smith, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
• Industry Panel Discussion – Best Practices in Different Industry Sectors for FSMA Implementation
• Traceability – FDA Representative – TBA
• Cleaning for Food Safety: Best Practices – Ron Shepard, Shepard Brothers, Inc., La Habra, CA
• Embedding Food Defense in your Food Safety Culture – Stephanie Lopez, AIB, Manhattan, KS

11:15 am Repeat Workshop Session I

 

1:15 pm General Session II – Boosting the ROI of Your PMP:  Using Data to Optimize Your Pathogen Environmental Monitoring Program

Timothy Freier, Mérieux NutriSciences, Chicago, IL

2:50 pm Workshop Session II

• ^Hand Hygiene: A Cornerstone for Food Safety in Food Manufacturing – Ron Shepard, Shepard Brothers, Inc., La Habra, CA
• ^Foaming: Best Practices – Don Jones, FOAM-iT / Clean-Logix, Grand Rapids, MI
• Food Fraud:  Why? What? and Now What? – Stephanie Lopez, AIB, Manhattan, KS
• ^Cleaning and Sanitation of Equipment in Spanish/ Limpieza y Desinfección de los Equipos @ 2:50 pm – Nina Parkinson, NGP Consulting, Brentwood, CA

^ CGMPs in Spanish/Las Buenas Prácticas de Manufactura @ 3:50 pm – Nina Parkinson, NGP Consulting, Brentwood, CA

• Water in Fresh Produce from Production to Packing – Faith Critzer, Washington State University, Prosser, WA

3:50 pm Repeat Workshop Session II

 

5:00 pm Cheese and Wine Reception & Top 5 Line Worker Award Nominees Announced

 

November 7, 2018

8:30 am General Session III – From Mercury to International Space Station:  A History of Food Safety at NASA

Kimberly Glaus Läte, Leidos, Reston, VA

 

10:15 am Workshop Session III

• ^Choosing an Effective Sanitizer – Don Jones, FOAM-iT / Clean-Logix, Grand Rapids, MI

• Bird Control – Keith Rowney, Sprague Pest Solutions, Tacoma, WA
• Microbiological Contaminants in Food Processing Environments – Jovana Kovacevic, Oregon State University, Portland, OR
• Making a Plan and Sticking to It: Understanding Verification and Validation – Stephanie Lopez, AIB, Manhattan, KS
• Food Production at NASA:  Current Practices and Future Plans – Kimberly Glaus Läte, Leidos, Reston, VA

11:15 am Repeat Workshop Session III

1:15 pm General Session IV – 25 Years of Food Safety Journey: Learnings and the Future

Bruce Clark, Marler and Clark, Seattle, WA

 

2:15 pm Closing Remarks & Line Worker Award Ceremony

 

* Any portion of the proposed agenda is subject to change.
^ Denotes basic workshop session.