Food chain resilience in a changing world
The conference covers highly relevant topics for scientists, policy makers working in the food safety, security and authenticity area:
Conference programme – Day 1
- Welcome and introduction – Julian Braybrook, Government Chemist
- Keynote speech – Prof John Loughhead, Chief Scientific Adviser, BEIS
- Referee cases outcomes – Michael Walker, LGC
- Application of whole genome sequencing for public health interventions around foodborne pathogens – Kathie Grant, PHE England
- Public Analysts and food chain resilience – Jon Griffin, Association of Public Analysts
- Regulating our future - modernising food regulation in the UK – Catriona Stewart, FSA
- The European Commission Knowledge Centre for Food Fraud and Quality – Franz Ultberth, JRC
- The Scottish Food Crime Unit: how FSS is using science to verify the authenticity of the food chain in Scotland – Lynsey Scullion and Duncan Smith, Food Standards Scotland
- Road map for the harmonisation of DNA testing for meat speciation – Tim Wilkes, LGC
- TBC - James Donarski, FERA
Conference programme - Day 2
- Are your genes to blame when your jeans don’t fit? – Giles Yeo, Cambridge University
- How the food industry is preparing for EU exit – Helen Munday, Food and Drink Federation
- Food Safety Challenge - Hong Kong Perspective – Tom NG, Hong Kong Government Chemist Laboratory
- The truth about blockchain technology; can it assure food supply chain integrity – David May, Lincoln University
- How can measurement science assist in improving the molecular detection and management of antimicrobial resistance? – Jim Huggett, LGC
- The Hand That Feeds: A musical about food crime – Kate Cooper, Birmingham City Council
- Early warning systems to detect, predict and assess food fraud – Yamine Bouzembrak, RIKILT
- How far have we come since horse-gate; global tools available to fight food fraud – Selvarani Elahi, LGC
- Accelerating rice improvement in South Asia – Katherine Steele, Bangor University
Plus a showing of the film: FOOD EVOLUTION, from Academy Award®-nominated director Scott Hamilton Kennedy and narrated by science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson, explores the controversy surrounding GMOs and food. Traveling from Hawaiian papaya groves to banana farms in Uganda to the cornfields of Iowa, the film wrestles with the emotions and the science driving one of the most heated arguments of our time.
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