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Produce Safety Alliance Integrated Grower and Train-the-Trainer Course - Aurora, Oregon

Date: Thursday, June 8, 2017 8:00 AM

Location: North Willamette Research and Extension Center, Oregon State University (15210 Northeast Miley Road, Aurora, OR, 97002)

This is the integrated produce safety training for growers and trainers (official FSMA Produce Safety rule curriculum recognized by FDA) on June 8-9 in Aurora, Oregon. Please share to your colleagues and friends who might be interested.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/produce-safety-alliance-integrated-grower-and-train-the-trainer-course-aurora-or-registration-34125190363?aff=eiosprexshremail&ref=eiosprexshremail

Our newsletter, The Grapevine, is now out! Spring edition, Vol 4, Issue 12.

Our newsletter is available here: https://bcfoodprotection.wildapricot.org/resources/Newsletters/BCFPA%20Newsletter%20Vol%204%20Issue%2012%20Apr%2030%202017%20v1.pdf

BCFPA Spring Speaker's Evening: Sanitation and Biofilm Challenges in the Food Industry - A Chemical Company’s Perspective

May 31, 2017

Featured Speakers: Brian March & Benoît Gagnon

Event generously sponsored by Sani Marc

Location: Langara Clubhouse (6706 Alberta Street, Vancouver, BC Complimentary Parking Available)

Visit our website to register and for more information www.bcfoodprotection.ca

Register by May 15th to take advantage of our early bird rate!

Register here: http://www.bcfoodprotection.ca/event-2538000

5:00-5:30 PM Registration
5:30-6:15 PM Welcome Remarks & First Speaker: Benoît Gagnon on "Food Safety - A Chemical Company’s Perspective"
6:15-6:45 PM Nutrition Break 6:45-7:30 PM Second Speaker: Brian March on "Biofilm in Food Production Environments"
7:30-7:45 PM Closing Remarks & Door Prizes

Poster here

Speaker bios and topic abstracts here

Dear Stakeholder,

On October 24, 2016, the Honourable Jane Philpott, Minister of Health, launched the Healthy Eating Strategy for Canada. One of the intended outcomes of the Healthy Eating Strategy is to help make the healthier food choice, the easier choice. In order to help achieve this, final amendments to the Food and Drug Regulations – Nutrition Labelling, Other Labelling Provisions and Food Colours were published in Canada Gazette, Part II on December 14, 2016.

We would like to invite you to a webinar, presented by Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and hosted by Ipsos. The webinar will provide you with an overview of the recent food labelling changes and compliance and enforcement activities (including information on the transition period) and offer you an opportunity to seek clarification on these changes.

English webinar registration:
Thursday March 30 from 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EST
http://ipsospasurveys.com/s/sc-hc/webinaire/langeng/

Due to the large audience, audio interaction will not be possible; however, questions may be submitted through the webinar platform for the Question and Answer session at the end of the webinar. Please confirm your participation before March 27th by registering at: http://ipsospasurveys.com/s/sc-hc/webinaire/langeng/
. Feel free to share this invitation with your colleagues who may be interested.

For any technical questions related to this invitation please contact Consultations@ipsos.com.

Best regards,

Bureau of Nutritional Sciences
Food Directorate
Health Canada

The ISGA conference is being held in Victoria, British Columbia April 24-28, 2017.

http://www.isga-sprouts.org

The course will run from the afternoon of April 27th to the afternoon of April 29th 2017.
 
Course overview:
This is a 2.5 day course that is mandatory for US sprout growers.
 
Course Description:
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Produce Safety Rule establishes science-based minimum standards for the safe growing, harvesting, packing, and holding of certain produce grown for human consumption.  Unless specifically exempt or excluded, sprout growing operations are subject to the Produce Safety Rule including the sprout-specific requirements in subpart M. This two and a half day Sprouter Training Course developed by the Sprout Safety Alliance (SSA) is the “standardized curriculum” recognized by FDA. Successfully completing this course is one way to meet the requirements for training under the Produce Safety Rule- "at least one supervisor or responsible party for each sprout operation must have successfully completed food safety training at least equivalent to that received under standardized curriculum recognized as adequate by the FDA".  Also it is helpful in understanding and implementing the Produce Safety Rule requirements and best practices for enhancing sprout safety.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is holding webinars on proposals to modernize the food labelling system.  The webinars will review the reasons for change, present highlights of what we heard from our first phases of consultations and outline the proposals for a more modern food labelling system and for a new approach for truthful and not misleading food labelling.

http://www.inspection.gc.ca/food/labelling/labelling-modernization-initiative/consultations/webinars/eng/1483710622580/1483710623263

Once you register, you will receive confirmation of your participation by email from messenger@webex.com.

These webinars are part of the CFIA’s and Health Canada’s ongoing work to modernize food labelling in Canada. For more information, please contact us: labellingmodernization-modernisationetiquetage@inspection.gc.ca

January 31, 2017 - BCFPA Annual General Meeting

Yasmin Yorish's presentation on "Nutrition Labelling and Health Canada’s Healthy Eating Strategy" is now available here: https://bcfoodprotection.wildapricot.org/resources/Presentations/2017-01-31%20Yorish%20HC%20HES.pdf

2016 Annual General Meeting

Featured Speaker: Yasmin Yorish (Health Canada) to present on "Nutrition Labelling and Health Canada's Healthy Eating Strategy"

January 31 2017
Shadbolt Centre for the Performing Arts
6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby, BC

Register by January 20 to attend our AGM!

Visit our website to register and for more information: http://www.bcfoodprotection.ca/event-2427734

5:00-5:30 PM Registration
5:30-5:45 PM Welcome & AGM Business
5:45-6:35 PM Yasmin Yorish on "Nutrition Labelling and Health Canada's Healthy Eating Strategy"
6:35-7:20 PM Dinner
7:20-7:30 PM Scholarship Presentation
7:30-8:00 PM Student Presentation: Karen Fong on "Characterization of Virulent Bacteriophages for Control of Salmonella in Fresh Produce"
8:00-8:15 PM Door Prizes & Closing

Poster: https://bcfoodprotection.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/Event%20Posters/2016%20AGM%20-%20Poster%202.pdf

Speaker bios: https://bcfoodprotection.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/Event%20Posters/2016%20AGM%20-%20Featured%20Speakers.pdf

Attendance is FREE for BCFPA Members in good standing.

Sustaining Member Display Tables available on first-come, first-serve basis. Interested in sponsoring? Contact Peter Taylor to sponsor or reserve your table today!

Dear BC Food Protection Association Members,

We would like to thank you for attending our one-day Food Safety Workshop held on Monday, November 7, 2016 at the Delta Hotel Burnaby Conference Centre in Burnaby, BC.

In our continued effort for improvement, and to bring seminars and events that are interesting to our members, we ask that you take a few minutes to complete our survey. Thank you.

Please click here to begin our survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19cTjocZDiyBuBSlJXFcQwup9ZH0hpjcv67V2ceCalH8/viewform?edit_requested=true

If you did not attend the Workshop, you may answer the first 2 questions and last 3 questions.

Please complete the survey no later than November 24, 2016. If you wish to contact us after the survey closes, we will always be happy to receive additional feedback and messages from our members.

Please visit our website at www.bcfoodprotection.ca for updates on events including our upcoming Annual General Meeting to be held in January 2017.

Thank you,

BC Food Protection Association Executive Board