ILSI Europe hosts, sponsors, and co-organizes a variety of scientific events. These include independent symposia; workshops; hands-on scientific training; and sessions held as part of the program of larger scientific and professional meetings.
Explore recent events for agendas, copies of presentations and meeting summaries and other reports.
Past Events
4th Symposium on ‘Nutrition for the Ageing Brain’
25/08/2022 – 26/08/2022
Lisbon, Portugal
Join us to discuss and debate the potential for maintaining cognitive function through dietary intake. This event is supported by the Nutrition and Mental Performance Task Force.
ILSI Europe’s Scientific Session on Food Allergen Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) at IAFP’s European Symposium on Food Safety 2022
06/05/2022
Munich, Germany
Scientific session supported by the Food Allergy Task Force
7th International Symposium on Food Packaging – Scientific Developments Supporting Safety and Innovation
03/05/2022 – 06/05/2022
Digital, Online
The 7th International Symposium on Food Packaging – Scientific Developments Supporting Safety and Innovation will now be a digital-only event and will take place from 3rd-6th May, 2022. This event is supported by the Packaging Materials Task Force.
Processing Environment Monitoring in Low Moisture Foods Production: Setting Up a Meaningful Program
21/04/2022
Webinar, GoToWebinar
This webinar is supported by the Microbiological Food Safety Task Force.
Practical guidance for validation studies: from start to finish
26/01/2022
Webinar, GoToWebinar
This webinar was supported by the Microbiological Food Safety Task Force.
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About the Symposium
Since 2005, IAFP's European symposium has been shaping the future of food safety by providing a forum for the exchange of ideas with colleagues from across Europe working in industry, government, and academia. The Symposium is an excellent forum to gain knowledge about the latest-QRAB developments and techniques in food science and safety. The symposium will be held on 4-6 May 2022 in Munich, Germany at the Holiday Inn Munich - City Centre. For more details please visit the IAFP website.
This year ILSI Europe will participate to the Symposium through one scientific session supported by its Food Allergy Task Force. We will also have a booth in the exhibition area: Come visit us and do not hesitate to contact us to organise a one-to-one meeting, we would be very happy to meet and discuss with you.
Application of Food Allergen Risk Assessment and Management: Current Perspective and Issues
Friday, 06 May 2022, 08:30 PM (CEST)
BACKGROUND
Food allergies were recognised as a significant, global public health issue over 25 years ago with the first FAO/WHO Consultation on allergens, which identified 8 priority allergenic foods or food groups. While this recognition implied a need to manage those allergens, the available tools severely limited what could be achieved at the time. In the intervening period, several methodologies have emerged and matured, together with a better understanding of the concept of tolerable risk. These developments and activities, together with the increasing global impact of food allergies on public health led to the recently concluded FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on Risk Assessment of Allergens as well as accompanying Codex activities. The landscape of food allergen management is thus at an inflection point. The previously established practice is that allergen cross-contact is managed in a binary fashion, i.e. either allergen is potentially present or not. This binary approach, which lacked industry alignment on how it was implemented, has led to inaccurate information being passed along supply chains. It has therefore led to a disconnect between the reality of risk and precautionary allergen labelling (PAL) and contributed to the proliferation of uninformative labelling. Fortunately, the current advent of allergen reference doses and their application in quantitative risk assessment can provide an opportunity to refresh how allergen risks are assessed and managed, but only if new tools are implemented consistently across businesses that produce food.
OBJECTIVE
This session will present updates from recent food allergy related activities within Codex committees and FAO/WHO joint expert consultations, explore tools and approaches to harmonize the data gathering process for food allergen risk assessments and their implementation, and investigate the impact on consumers with food allergy when differing risk management strategies for allergen labelling are implemented.
SESSION PROGRAMME
• Update on FAO/Who and Codex Activities Regarding Food Allergens, Prof. René Crevel, René Crevel Consulting Ltd, UK
• Practical Guidance on the Application of Allergen Quantitative Risk Assessment, Dr Neil Buck, General Mills Inc, CH
• Impact on Consumers with Food Allergies of Differing Public Health and Industry Risk Management Strategies, Dr Benjamin Remington, Remington Consulting Group B.V., NL
Contact
For more information on this virtual event, please contact Ms Toula Aslanidis, Project Assistant at taslanidis@ilsieurope.be.
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Registration
To register for the webinar, please click here
About the webinar
Recent foodborne outbreaks involving low moisture foods highlight that a well-designed Processing environment monitoring (PEM) is increasingly important in the context of food safety management systems. However, PEM can only form an integral part of food safety systems when it is adequately designed and implemented: looking at the correct organisms of concern, at the right locations and times, using suitable and validated sampling and testing approaches, and being looked at / trended by trained personnel. Such a well-defined and implemented PEM can provide further assurance that the processing environment will not contribute to contamination of products. In this webinar, experts with academic and industrial experience will unravel how to develop a risk-based approach to support setting up a meaningful program, how to react in case of potential findings and why / what are the technologies to further characterize detected organisms.
Speakers
Mr François Bourdichon, Food Safety, Microbiology and Hygiene, FR
Prof. Séamus Fanning, UCD - Centre for Food Safety, University College Dublin, IE
Prof. Marcel Zwietering, Wageningen University and Research, NL
Moderator
Dr Anett Winkler, Cargill, DE
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Food business operators (FBOs) are required to implement a food safety management plan and document that their control measures are effective to control the identified hazards. The effectiveness of control measures must be validated prior to implementation of the food safety management plan. Validation studies provide evidence that control measures are capable of effectively controlling the identified hazards and therefore meet the process control objective. Determining key requirements for a validation of control measures involves significant challenges such as hazard(s) identification, setting critical control parameters, understanding the interactions between the hazard and the food and collecting adequate scientific, technical and/or experimental evidence. Recently, an international, multidisciplinary expert group, convened under the aegis of the European Branch of the International Life Science Institute (ILSI Europe), generated a guidance document on validation studies for lethal control measures for foodborne pathogens. In this webinar, expert group members from industry and academia will demonstrate how in practice to plan and perform a validation study, and to analyze the data in order to establish effective control measures.
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Dr Heidy den Besten, University of Wageningen, NL
Dr Anett Winkler, Cargill, DE
Dr Roy Betts, Campden BRI, UK
Moderator
Dr Erdogan Ceylan, Institut Mérieux, US
Contact
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