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The Foodomics Pocketknife: Select your Fit for Purpose Tool
Omic-based-technologies have shown their capacity for generating
robust data, offering new vision on understanding food safety issues
and new tools for routine testing. They are perceived as new ways to
characterize the isolates. The power of these methods needs to be
controlled in order most of the FBO can benefit from them, and get a
clearer understanding of their applications. Regulators are investigating
the use of these technologies in order to define risk profile associated
to food-borne pathogens, conduct outbreak investigations, and
strengthen regulation.
This symposium aims to set a few things straight. Omic analyses
are after all just tools like a novel pocketknife for microbiologists. As
always, you just have to select your fit for purpose tool…stop using a
steamroller to crack a nut!
A lesson from history will be drawn, tracing the evolution of the
analytical sciences in food microbiology[i]. Advanced technologies
always start with strain characterization before moving to more complex
analyses. It was the case for biochemical analyses, molecular methods
… This transition is ongoing for the Omics-technologies.
Omic-analyses require harmonization/standardization in order to use
bioinformatics platforms, to process in routine testing, to share and
compare data such as done within PulseNet and MicrobeNet. Ongoing
harmonized international standardization schemes with available
databases set under quality assurance programs will be presented.
Regulation expectation regarding method assessment will be
emphasized; key studies will follow, showing the bottom-up approach
with Omics-data to provide tools for routine testing with short time-to-
result, providing go/no go data for decision makers.
CO-CHAIR:
Daniele Sohier,
Bruker Daltonics
CO-CHAIR:
Patrice Arbault,
Nexidia
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Daniele Sohier,
Bruker Daltonics
Unlocking Adaptation of Routine Testing under Foodomics
Evolutionary Pressure: Just Keep it Balanced!
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John McQuiston,
MicrobeNet
Harmonization of Omics-Based Routine Methods and Database:
Make it Easy and Fully under Control
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Erin Crowley,
Q Laboratories, Inc.
Never Forget the Needs and the True Goal in Routine Testing
1:00 PM – 4:30 PM
TDLM Workshop: Updates on Food Safety Modernization
Act and ISO/IEC 17025 Accreditation
Laboratory accreditation was mandated by the Food Safety
Modernization Act (FSMA) for laboratories analyzing samples required
by FSMA. The FDA is working to develop regulations for implementing
these new requirements. Laboratory testing is an important component
of several FSMA regulations.
This session plans to have an update from FDA on the FSMA Laboratory
Accreditation rule, including an update on the Laboratory Model
Standards. The importance of ISO/IEC 17025 laboratory accreditation
will be discussed, along with the steps to begin the journey to
accreditation. A new version of ISO/IEC 17025 should be coming
out in 2017, and we hope to provide updates on the changes and
the effect on those laboratories already accredited as well as those
seeking accreditation. In addition, updates on the Partnership for
Food Protection Laboratory Science’s Food and Feed Laboratories Best
Practices will be provided. These topics will provide the information
needed to proceed with implementation of the various requirements
along with learning best practices to facilitate acceptance and
consistent quality of analytical data, improve efficiencies, and support
the testing of food imports and domestic food testing.
CO-CHAIR:
Yvonne Salfinger,
Association of Public Health Laboratories
CO-CHAIR:
Ruiqing Pamboukian,
U.S. Food and Drug Administration,
Office of Regulatory Affairs
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Cynthia Mangione,
NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets
Updates on the Partnership for Food Protection Laboratory Science’s
Food and Feed Laboratories Best Practices
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Jane Weitzel,
Consultant
Crosswalk between ISO 17025:2005 and the Revision
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Ruiqing Pamboukian,
U.S. Food and Drug Administration,
Office of Regulatory Affairs
Updates on FSMA Laboratory Accreditation, including Laboratory
Model Standards and Progress toward Promoting National Standards,
including Accreditation for Food and Feed Regulatory Laboratories
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Advances in Regulatory Science for Mycotoxins in Agricultural
and Food Safety
Mycotoxins are toxic metabolites generated by various fungal species,
which can grow on agricultural commodities and foods. This diversity of
mycotoxins and fungi poses a great challenge for controlling mycotoxin
contamination in food and feed chains. In the furtherance of public