March 10, 2018
8:00 - 8:45 am - Arrival/Breakfast
8:45 - Welcome/Meeting Intro
9:00 - 10:00 am Session 1: Antibiotic Resistance & Food Safety
1:10 - 3:00 pm Session 4: Species Identification to Combat Mislabeling - Industry Trends
8:00 - 8:45 am - Arrival/Breakfast
8:45 - Welcome/Meeting Intro
9:00 - 10:00 am Session 1: Antibiotic Resistance & Food Safety
- Douglas L. Marshall, Ph.D. (CFS Chief Scientific Officer for Eurofins Microbiology Laboratories, Inc.) Is Antibiotic Resistance a Real Concern for the Seafood Sector?
- Salina Parveen, Ph.D. (Professor, Agriculture, Food and Resource Sciences), Prevalence, antibiotic resistance and genetic diversity of major pathogens in imported and domestic seafood.
- Roxanne Smolowitz, D.V.M. (Director of the Aquatic Diagnostic Laboratory (ADL) at Roger Williams University), Vibrio parahaemolyticus and the seafood industry, how do we manage around the problem?
- Joe Regenstein, Ph.D. (Professor Emeritus of Food Science, Department of Food Science at Cornell ): Overview of fish waste management (and minimization)
- Heather Manuel (Director, Centre for Aquaculture and Seafood Development , Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland): "Inventory assessment of processing discards from the Canadian seafood industry"
- Dr. Steve Hall, P.E. (Director Marine Aquaculture Research Center, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, NC State Univ, Raleigh NC): Quality/safety improvement to minimize losses in fish aquaculture, harvest, and processing
- Tyre Lanier, Ph.D. (Prof Food Science, NC State Univ, Raleigh NC): Capture and use of soluble proteins from liquid waste streams of fishery products processing
- Karen Swajian (Consumer Safety Officer, FDA/CFSAN/Food Safety) Historical summary of seafood safety regulations
- Dusty Batley (Seafood Safety Consultant, former Plant Manager, Duck Trap Co.)
- John F. Whiteside, Jr. (Attorney representing and advising 4 seafood associations & companies from Maine to Virginia with ocean to plate regulatory compliance)
1:10 - 3:00 pm Session 4: Species Identification to Combat Mislabeling - Industry Trends
- Jon Bell, Ph.D. (Director National Seafood Inspection Lab, NOAA-NMFS) Utilizing Chip-Based Capillary Electrophoresis and Protein Pattern Matching to Screen for Finfish Species Substitution.
- LeeAnn Applewhite (Co-founder and President of Applied Food Technologies, Inc.)
- Daniel L. Distel, Ph.D. (Director, Ocean Genome Legacy Center, Northeastern University) A Validated Public DNA Bank to Promote New Technologies for Rapid On-Site Seafood Authentication
- Jonathan Deeds, Ph.D. Research Biologist US FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Office of Regulatory Science, Seafood Authenticity and its Effects on HACCP, Safety, and Fraud