• IAFP 2014

One of the premier events to which the food safety community looks forward is the annual meeting of the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP).  This includes the faculty and students from the University of Maryland’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources’ Center for Food Safety and Security Systems (CFS³), who presented their research findings, participated in round tables and seminars, gave keynote addresses, and provided information on our JIFSAN training programs by sponsoring a exhibitor’s booth CFS³ members participating included faculty members of the University of Maryland departments of Nutrition and Food Science, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, and Animal and Avian Sciences, their students, and the scientists and staff of the Joint Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition (JIFSAN). This year the annual meeting was held in Indianapolis, Indiana and CFS³ / JIFSAN faculty and students had a large presence at the meeting. 

Keynote Address:

• “Micro Testing to Verify Preventative Controls: An Integral Part of FSMA” Robert Buchanan



Roundtables:

• “Establishing Science-based Performance Standards: Are We There Yet?” Robert Buchanan
• “Food Safety or Food Availability: Do We Have To Choose?” Robert Buchanan

  Symposia:

• “Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment Models to Inform Salmonella Control Strategies in Low-water Activity Foods: The Case of Pet Food” Elisabetta Lambertini
• “Government Responses to Food Control Over the Years” Robert Buchanan

Technical Sessions:

• “Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens in Mixed Crop-Animal farms and Its Products in Retail Stores and Farmers Markets” Debabrata Biswas, Serajus Salaheen, Jose Alejandro Almario, and Mengfei Peng
• “Assessing the Potential for Salmonella Growth in Rehydrated Dry Dog Food in a Simulated Home Environment” Ruth Oni and Robert Buchanan

Posters:

• “Effect of Different Mulches Used for Growing Organic Lettuce on Soil and Epiphytically-associated Fecal Indicator Bacteria” Aixia Xu and Shirley Micallef



• “Salmonella Newport and Typhimurium Colonization of Fruit Differs from Leaves in Various Tomato Cultivars” Sanghyun Han and Shirley Micallef



•   “Investigating the Effect of Salmonella Biocontrol Agent Paeni­bacillus alvei and Poultry Litter Soil Amendment on the Eastern Shore Tomato Microbiome” Sarah Allard, Anna Wallis, Elizabeth Prinkey, James Pettengill, Jie Zheng, Andrea Ottesen, Christopher Walsh, Eric Brown, Peter Evans, and Shirley Micallef



• “Decline of Salmonella on Artificially Contaminated Dry Pet Food” Elisabetta Lambertini, Huilin Cao, Miao Guo, Abhinav Mishra, Robert Buchanan, and Abani Pradhan



• “Diversity of the CRISPR-cas System in Salmonella Bareilly” Magaly Toro, Guojie Cao, Sherry Ayers, Ruth Timme, Marc Allard, and Jianghong Meng



•   “Frequency and Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns of Salmonella in Mixed Crop–Animal Farms and Its Products in Retail Stores and Farmers’ Markets” Jose Alejandro Almario, Nityananda Chowdhury, Mengfei Peng, Serajus Salaheen, Cassandra Federman, and Debabrata Biswas



• “Dynamics of Campylobacter in Mixed Crop-livestock Farms and Cross-contamination of this Pathogen in Its Products” Serajus Salaheen, Nityananda Chowdhury, Jose Alejandro Almario, Mengfei Peng, and Debabrata Biswas



• “Using ‘Nutritional-shift’ Trials to Develop Mechanistic Models of the Lag Phase of Escherichia coli K-12” Yangyang Wang and Robert Buchanan



• “Cocoa on Growth of Major Enteric Bacterial Pathogens and Their Interaction with Intestinal Epithelial Cells” Mengfei Peng, Hongshun Yang, Geetika Reichmann, and Debabrata Biswas
• “Surveillance and Antimicrobial Resistance of Salmonella and Campylobacter in Poultry Products in Farmer, Organic and Conventional Markets” Nityananda Chowdhury, Jose Alejandro Almario, Serajus Salaheen, Geetika Reichmann, and Debabrata Biswas
• “Use of a Quantitative Risk Assessment Model to Estimate Exposure to Salmonella Associated with Dry Pet Foods” Elisabetta Lambertini, Robert Buchanan, Clare Narrod, and Abani Pradhan
• “Evaluation of Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessments for Salmonella and Campylobacter in Poultry Meat” Hao Pang, Debabrata Biswas, and Abani Pradhan
•   “Qualitative Risk Assessment of Toxoplasma gondii Infection from Meat Consumption in the United States” Miao Guo, Yuqing Ying, Robert Buchanan, Jitender Dubey, Dolores Hill, H. Ray Gamble, Jeffrey Jones, and Abani Pradhan

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