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 
  • 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?
10:10 - 11:10 am Session 2: Reducing Food Waste in Fisheries and Processing
  • 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
11:20 - 12:20 pm Session 3: Best Industry Practices to deal with Regulations
  • 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)
12:20 - 1:00 pm  LUNCH
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
3:00 - 4:00 pm  Social Mixer/Cash Bar/Posters​