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‘Safe Food is Your Business’ – NZFSA annual conference

17 – 18 September 2008, Distinction Hotel, Rotorua

Draft topics and speakers include:

• Stepping up to export

• Voluntary implementation of Food Control Plans

• Territorial Authorities’ role in food safety

• Emerging issues in food safety

• Marae food safety

• Campylobacter

Dr David Atkins and Dr Julie Norman

Heads of Chief Scientist Team, UK Food Standards Agency

Professor Ian Shaw – ‘A lifetime’s exposure to food’

Pro-Vice-Chancellor, College of Science, University of Canterbury

Dr Riitta Maijala

Director of Risk Assessment, European Food Safety Authority

Bryce Quick

Deputy Administrator, US Department of Agriculture

NZFSA Workshops

• Stepping up to Export

• Future of Food Importing

• Is it s Food or a Medicine?

Earlybird registrations now open!

Register online here.

Download the conference programme

For more information please contact kate.hutchison@nzfsa.govt.nz

Territorial Authority Workshop − 16 September

Open to all Environmental Health Officers, Health Protection Officers and their colleagues. Please contact Bob Hutchinson to register or for more details. Bob.hutchinson@nzfsa.govt.nz or robyn.scully@nzfsa.govt.nz

View the workshop programme and register here

Satellite Class − 19 September

NZFSA has recently updated its risk management framework. http://www.nzfsa.govt.nz/about-us/risk-management-framework/index.htm

This satellite class will show the framework in action using toxins in honey as a worked example. Presentations will cover the generic framework and then work through preliminary risk management activities (including risk profiling), risk management options, and monitoring and review. Speakers include toxicologists, risk assessor, industry, risk managers, consumer representative and a chemist.

Register for this class via the online registration form.