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BCFPA 2024 Summer Webinar Series 1

  • 11 Jul 2024
  • 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
  • Zoom

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The BC Food Protection Association would like to present:

SUMMER WEBINAR SERIES

You are invited to attend our educational Summer Webinar Series through the Zoom platform! Learn more about risk assessment strategies for your food manufacturing facility or have a refresher on product identification through barcodes and a review on Health Canada's labelling and packaging regulations.


Webinar #1:

 Risk Assessment Strategies in Food Manufacturing Plants: What Can We Do Better to Control Pathogens and Allergens?

Risk Assessment Focusing on Pathogen Control and Allergens



Speaker: Alberto Mendoza-Galina, UBC; GFSI consultant/auditor, HACCP certified by the UN/FAO and the USDC/NMFS
Date: Thursday, July 11, 2024
Time: 5:00-6:15 pm PT
Location: via Zoom*
*The Zoom link will be available in a separate email closer to the event date to those who have registered for the webinar event.

Speaker bio: Alberto Mendoza-Galina has a degree in MA BSc Biochemistry Engineering, and is specialized in food sciences and technology. He is also a GFSI consultant/auditor, HACCP certified by the UN/FAO and the USDC/NMFS. His work has taken him to countries such as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Mexico, USA, and Canada; he has worked in different production environments from aquaculture, farming/harvesting, processing and distribution, to retail and food service establishments; in diverse industries including dairy, meat, poultry, seafood, beverage, canning, preserved foods, produce, confectionary, natural products, nutritional supplements, and entrée ready-to-eat products.

He works as an auditor for Merieux NutriSciences in Chicago, USA. He also worked developing the sanitary regulatory standards for food services for the tourism sector in Mexico. His professional experience includes working with small family businesses up to large corporations, such as McDonalds, Burger King, Subway, Costco, Wal-Mart, YUM Brands (Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, A&W), Sysco, closely working with their food and primary packaging suppliers. He has an expertise in hazard analysis, risk assessment and risk management, particularly dealing with manufacturing sites of high-risk RTE products.

At UBC he developed and teaches the following courses: FNH 414 Sustainability and the Food Industry, AQUA 507 Seafood Processing, FOOD 516 Advanced Food Safety and Food Quality Management, and FOOD 527A Special Topics in Food Sciences (Foodborne Outbreak Investigations), and Developing Traceability Systems, online educational micro certification program at UBC. Currently, he is the science advisor and co-founder of two projects, aquaponics and Oreocromis aureus (tilapia) aquaculture, and Arthrospira platensis (spirulina) aquaculture in closed systems.

Summary:

Risk Assessment Focusing on Pathogen Control and Allergens

The talk will focus on the following key points:
  • Connection between Hazard Analysis (HA) and Risk Assessment (RA); what is the backbone of our food safety plan?
  • What is (RA)?
  • How HA and RA inform the cleaning and sanitation program, the design of specific SSOPs for pathogen and allergen control. Evaluation of the sanitary design of equipment. E.g., Dole outbreak case and Listeria monocytogenes.
  • Cleaning and sanitation practices to avoid pathogen contamination of food contact surfaces
  • How the HA and RA informs the environmental monitoring program and how the EMP validates/verifies the pathogen and allergen control programs.
  • Listeria and whole genome sequencing.
  • General considerations for allergen control
  • Conclusions

Poster: Click here
Registration Rates*:
$10 for BCFPA Members
$5 for BCFPA students/retired
$15 for Non-Members
Rates will increase by $5 after July 4th.
Summer Webinar Series Schedule:
Webinar #1 - THURSDAY, JULY 11TH - 5:00-6:15 pm PT
Risk Assessment Strategies in Food Manufacturing Plants: What Can We Do Better to Control Pathogens and Allergens?
Topic: Risk Assessment Focusing on Pathogen Control and Allergens

Webinar #2 - TUESDAY, JULY 30TH - 5:00-6:15 pm PT
Understanding Product Identification Through Barcodes and a Review of Health Canada's Labelling and Packaging Regulations
Topic: Barcodes and Beyond


For more information and to register, visit our website: https://www.bcfoodprotection.ca
If you would like to sponsor our event and have your logo (or ad) shown during our event, contact us today to discuss options.

Registrants are welcome to send in their questions to our webinar speaker ahead of time - you can email your questions to us or post your questions in the chat during our virtual Zoom webinar!
Contact us: info@bcfoodprotection.ca

Email: info@bcfoodprotection.ca

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