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FSIS Draft Listeria Risk Assessment Technical Meeting
February 26, 2003

Washington Plaza Hotel
10 Thomas Circle
Washington, D.C. 20005

Agenda

9:00 – 9:15	Opening Remarks	Karen Hulebak, Sc.D. Deputy Administrator OPHS
	Welcome	Elsa A. Murano, Ph.D. Under Secretary for Food Safety USDA
	Overview	Garry L. McKee, Ph.D., M.P.H. Administrator FSIS
9:15 – 9:30	What is Risk Assessment ?	Janell R. Kause, M.P.H., M.P.P. Senior Risk Analyst Risk Assessment Division, OPHS
9:30 – 10:00	FDA/FSIS Risk Ranking of RTE Foods	Robert L. Buchanan, Ph.D. Director, Office of Science, CFSAN Food and Drug Administration
10:00 – 10:30	Current Listeria Policy and Risk Management Questions	Daniel L. Engeljohn, Ph.D. Acting Assistant Deputy Administrator OPPED
10:30 – 10:45	Break
FSIS Draft Listeria Risk Assessment
10:45 - 11:00	Introduction and Overview of the Draft FSIS Risk Assessment	Carol Maczka, Ph.D. Acting Director Risk Assessment Division, OPHS
11:00 – 12:00	The FSIS Risk Assessment, Part I Contamination on Food Contact Surfaces Transfer to Ready-to-Eat Product Growth of Listeria from Plant to Retail FSIS/FDA model Sanitation Efficacy and (Verification) Testing	Daniel L. Gallagher, PhD., P.E.. Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Virginia Tech
12:00 – 1:00	Lunch
1:00 – 2:15	The FSIS Risk Assessment, Part II Calibration of In-Plant Model Retail to Table FDA/FSIS Model Aspects Risk Assessment Outputs for Management Questions	Eric D. Ebel, D.V.M., M.S. Senior Risk Analyst Risk Assessment Division, OPHS
2:15 – 2:30	Break
Discussion of the Risk Assessment
2:30 – 3:15	Panel Discussion of the FSIS Draft Listeria Risk Assessment Were the management questions appropriate? Was the model developed to answer the management questions? Are there aspects or questions that the model should address?
2:30 – 3:15	Karen Hulebak, Sc.D., Moderator Deputy Administrator OPHS	Jenny Scott Senior Director, Food Safety Program National Food Processors Association Charlotte Christin, J.D., L.L.M. Senior Food Safety Attorney Center for Science in the Public Interest Sophia Kathariou, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Food Science North Carolina State University National Alliance for Food Safety
3:15 – 3:45	FSIS Draft Listeria Risk Assessment Technical Questions and Answers	Carol Maczka, Ph.D.
3:45 – 4:00	Next Stages	Loren Lange Acting Associate Deputy Administrator OPHS

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