Prioritizing Opportunities to Reduce Foodborne Illness
FSRC National Conference
September 14, 2005
Resources for the Future
First Floor Conference Center
1616 P Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
Final Agenda
8:00-8:30 |
Registration and Coffee |
8:30-8:40 |
Welcome and FSRC Background – Mike Taylor |
8:40-9:00 |
Project Overview and Goals of the Conference – Helen Jensen |
9:00-10:30 |
A Conceptual Framework and Key Issues – Helen Jensen (moderator)
- Overview of a conceptual framework – Mike Taylor
- Predicting food safety outcomes and related modeling issues – Glenn Morris
- Identifying and evaluating the effectiveness of interventions – Mike Doyle
- Assessing costs and health benefits of interventions – Julie Caswell
- Clarifying Questions
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10:30-10:45 |
Coffee Break |
10:45-12:00 |
Comments and Perspectives on Food Safety Priority Setting – Panel Discussion – Cathie Woteki (moderator)
- FDA – Bob Buchanan
- USDA – Janell Kause, FSIS
- CDC – Rob Tauxe
- State health departments – Dale Morse, New York
- Consumers – Caroline Smith DeWaal, CSPI
- Food producers – Liz Wagstrom, National Pork Board
- Food processing industry – Paul Hall, Kraft
- Research community/CSREES – Mary Torrence
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12:00-1:00 |
Lunch |
1:00-2:30 |
Priority Setting Experiences – Ewen Todd (moderator)
- Food safety resource allocation at FDA – Alan Rulis, CFSAN/FDA
- The Dutch experience with priority setting – Marie-Josee Mangen, RIVM/Netherlands
- Targeting interventions in ground beef production – Randy Huffman, AMI
- A policy and international perspective – Tom Billy, former FSIS Administrator and Codex chair
- Questions and Discussion
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2:30-2:40 |
Stretch Break |
2:40-4:00 |
Open Discussion of Issues and Next Steps – Mike Taylor (moderator) |
4:00-4:15 |
Wrap Up
- What have we heard? – Glenn Morris, Julie Caswell, Mike Doyle
- Next steps for the project and FSRC – Helen Jensen, Mike Taylor
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For more information about the project, see
Prioritizing Opportunities to Reduce Foodborne Risk.