International Conference on Food Safety and Regulatory Measures August 17-19, 2015 Birmingham, UK

Arpad Ambrus was born in Kolozsvár in 1944; He is married with two children. Graduated at the Technical University of Budapest as chemical engineer. He was the technical and scientific manager of the Hungarian Pesticide Analytical Laboratories for 25 years, managed the Food Safety Programme of the Centre for Plant Health and Soil Conservation Service in Hungary. Currently he is the chief scientific advisor and responsible for scientific risk assessment. He is the chair of Codex Committee on Method of Analysis and Sampling He is the lecturer at the University of Debrecen and University of Szeged, and supervises 6 PhD aspirants. During his carrier he worked in various countries as FAO expert, represented Hungary in the CCPR for 14 years and managed the pesticide programme of the FAO/IAEA Training and Reference Centre for Food and Pesticides for 7 years. He was the Honorary Scientist of the Agricultural Academy of Korea for 5 years. Scientific decrees: 1980: Candidate of Science and Doctor Technicus, 2006: habilitated university professor, 2008: Honorary university professor Awards: 2013: Silver Cross of Merit awarded by the President of Hungary 2014. IUPAC International Award for Advances in Harmonized Approaches to Crop Protection Chemistry Membership: FAO/WHO Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues since 1973 Sub-committee on Food Safety of Hungarian Academy of Science 2008- IUPAC fellow: 2005- EFSA Food Consumption Expert Group since 2012 Editorial Board of the Journal of Environmental Science and Health.

Food Safety, Pesticides, Environmental Science, Food Consumption, Chemical Engineering,Crop Protection Chemistry

Maria Tsimidou is professor of Food Chemistry and Head of the Laboratory of Chemistry and Technology in the School of Chemistry at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her teaching is Food Chemistry, Analysis , Quality Control and Food Legislation. She has published many research papers, review articles and contributions to scientific books and encyclopaedias on the above mentioned topics. Currently she is associate editor in the European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology, and chairs the COST ACTION FA1101 “Saffronomics”

Her research interests are related to virgin olive oil chemistry, quality and authenticity, saffron chemistry, authenticity and quality, antioxidant activity of plant extracts and constituents, new sources of targeted bioactive compounds (squalene, carotenoids, phenols) and analytical procedures for the determination of them.

Sanjay Dave is the Advisor to Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi. He was the Chairperson of Codex Alimentarius Commission (a UN -FAO/WHO- body) From July 2011 to July 2014. He has a Master’s degree in Life Sciences and Post-Graduate Diploma in International Trade. He also has a degree in Law. He has professional experience of more than 38 years of which about 28 years in international agriculture trade. For three and a half years (Jan 1996 – June 1999), he looked after India’s agricultural trade interests in the European Union in the capacity of Adviser (Agriculture) in the Mission of India to the European Union at Brussels.

Food Safety, Food Regulation, Food Law, Food Policy, Agriculture, Food Standards

Carla Vartanian is certified in Clinical Bioethics from Harvard Medical School. . She graduated from the American University of Beirut with a B.S in Nutrition and Dietetics and a Masters in Nutrition Science and later completed her Clinical Nutrition Diploma with the European Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism in which she is actively involved by conducting nutrition support workshops for dietitians and physicians. Throughout her career, her areas of interest in nutrition focused on research and education as she has participated in many international scientific meetings, been teaching nutrition in two different universities in Beirut and publishing nutrition and health articles in the Middle East for many years. Carla is currently serving as the public relations chair at the American Overseas Dietetic Association, working as a consultant in therapeutic nutrition education and presenting her own weekly nutrition and health awareness TV show in Lebanon. She is an active member of more than ten different nutrition and dietetic associations around the world. Her latest international recognitions include the award of teaching excellence and the successful member of the year recognition by the World Public Health Nutrition Association in 2012

Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, Dietetics, Food Allergies, Community Nutrition, Sports Nutrition.

Hami Alpas is a Professor at Food Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, Turkey. He holds an MBA degree from Dept. of Business Administration METU on Total Quality Management. He has served as a “visiting scholar” in 1996 and 1998 at University of Wyoming, USA; as a “visiting scientist” in 2001 and 2002 at Ohio State University, USA and as a “visiting professor” in 2006, 2007 and 2008 at University of Bordeaux I, France. His main research areas are: Unit Operations in Food Engineering, Non-thermal Food Processing Technologies, Food Quality, Food Safety and Food Security through Total Food Protection. He is an expert in Food Defense training activities via NCFPD (USA). He has supervised 4 Ph.D and 11 M.Sc. thesis in Food Engineering Department. He has 67 international journal articles (SCI) and over 750 citations (ISI-Web of Sci; h-factor 17) as well as close to 55 academic presentations in 35 different international meetings. He has completed 15 national, 4 international projects including EU/JRC, CNRS-EGIDE and NATO ARW/ATC projects. He has authored 7 chapters in internationally edited books and has edited 3 international books by Springer. He has also organized and co-directed 3 NATO-workshops (ARW-ATC). He is currently co-director of EU-FP7 project on “Plant Food Security”.

Unit Operations in Food Engineering, Non-thermal Food Processing Technologies, Food Quality, Food Safety and Food Security through Total Food Protection

Andy Hwang obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Food Science and Technology from the University of Tennessee. He is a research scientist with the Residue Chemistry and Predictive Microbiology Research Unit, Eastern Regional Research Center, ARS-USDA, conducting research in modeling the behavior of foodborne pathogens in food products. Before joining ARS, he was a research microbiologist with Nestlé Product Technology Center

The influence of product formulation and processing, handling, and storage conditions on the microbiological stability and safety of raw and processed foods. The application of predictive microbiology in food safety and risk assessment.

Roberta Onori born in Rome 10 June 1953 She is a researcher at the Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety - GMOs and Mycotoxins Unit – of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (National Institute of Health), that is a governmental institute and the technical body of the Ministry of Health. She had taken degree in Biology in 1977 from the University “La Sapienza” of Rome. She is responsible of the GMO laboratory section of the GMOs and mycotoxin Unit. Her research interests include the identification of emerging risks in the food and feed production chains, standardization and validation of analytical methods and sampling approaches for the detection of GMO, and the development of strategies to prevent criminal and terrorist attack against food supply chain. She served as national delegate in numerous technical committees :OECD Task Force for the Safety of Novel Foods and Feeds, EFSA Scientific Network for Risk Assessment of GMOs, Technical Commission CEN/TC 275 “Food Analysis Horizontal Methods” WG 11 “Genetically Modified Foodstuffs”, European Network of GMO Laboratories (ENGL) and as expert of Italian CODEX Alimentarius working group “Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Food Derived from Biotechnology” and of Italian Commission for evaluating GMOs applications.

identification of emerging risks in the food and feed production chains, standardization and validation of analytical methods and sampling approaches for the detection of GMO, and the development of strategies to prevent criminal and terrorist attack against food supply chain.

Gebreyes is professor of molecular epidemiology, Director of Global Health Programs at The Ohio State University, College of Veterinary Medicine and Chair of the Ohio State Ethiopia One Health Task Force. He is a native of Ethiopia and naturalized citizen of the United States. He completed his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) at Addis Ababa University and completed his PhD at North Carolina State University. Dr. Gebreyes is the principal investigator of the National institute of Health (NIH) Fogarty International Center, Global Infectious Diseases, research and training program on Molecular epidemiology of Foodborne pathogens for eastern Africa including Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania. He is engaged in various global capacity building efforts including teaching annual course on molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases in Brazil and Ethiopia. He also directs the Infectious Diseases Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory (IDMEL). IDMEL has a major goal and activity investigating molecular mechanisms of multi-drug resistance in gram-negative organisms. He is a recipient of several awards including the Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affairs (BETHA); Pfizer Research Award; American Society of Microbiology (ASM) International professorship award among others.

infectious diseases epidemiology, zoonoses, public health at the human animal interface, livestock biotechnology, antimicrobial resistance and molecular epidemiology in food borne (including Salmonella, Campylobacter and Yersinia); nosocomial and community acquired (including Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Hypervirulent Clostridium difficile) infections.

George - John E. Nychas is Professor of Food Microbiology and Director of Lab. of Microbiology and Biotechnology of Foods, Agricultural University of Athens. He has published 170 papers in SCI and more than 30 Chapters as invited author (ca. 5100 citations and h=39). He was President of National Food Authority of Greece, co-chair in the Professional Development Group (PDG) of “Microbial Modeling and Risk Analysis" of IAFP while he served EFSA as member of the BIOHAZARD group and recently he was providing external expertise to the European Parliament as expert on Food Safety.

In the last 20 years he has coordinated and/or participated in more than 20 EU projects, in the area of food safety, food microbial ecology, microbial physiology of pathogenic and spoilage bacteria, natural antimicrobial systems, metabolomics, mathematical modeling and risk analysis.

Australian Centre for Asian Business director Professor Ying Zhu was born in Beijing and graduated from Peking University with a Bachelor of International Economics. He then worked as an economist at Shenzhen Special Economic Zone for four years. He did his PhD thesis on the ‘role of export processing zones in East Asian development’, focusing on South Korea, Taiwan, China and Thailand, at Melbourne University between 1988 and 1992. After completing his PhD he worked at Victoria University and Melbourne University for 17 years. He was Director of the Masters of Human Resource Management at Melbourne University before joining UniSA as Centre Director on 1 February 2011. He has been a visiting scholar at the International Labour Organization, the University Cambridge and the World Bank.

His research interests include international human resource management, employment relations in Asia, labour law and regulations in Asia, and economic development in Asia

Prior to his arrival at University of Florida, Archer served as Deputy Director, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where he was charged with oversight of the research, regulatory and policy activities of all foods and cosmetic programs including food additives, food labeling, special nutritionals, seafood, and cosmetics and colors. From 1984 until his retirement in 1994, Archer served as Chairman of the FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Committee on Food Hygiene, and since 1990, has been a member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Food Safety since 1990. Other international activities include: U.S. Representative to the International Standards Organization, and U. S. Technical Negotiator with the European Community. He is the past U. S. Associate Editor for Food Control, and member of the Advisory Board of the Academic Press Nutrition and Food Science Publications. He is a professional member of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), and was elected Fellow of the IFT in 2006. He is currently a member of the IFT Global Policy and Regulations, and is the subject expert for that Committee on food Hygiene. Dr. Archer also chairs the Florida Food Safety and Food Security Advisory Council to the Commissioner of Agriculture of Florida.

foods and cosmetic programs including food additives, food labeling, special nutritionals, seafood, and cosmetics and colors.

Eulogio J. Llorent-Martínez (Jaén, Spain, 1981) received the Chemistry degree and the Ph.D. degree (summa cum laude) in the University of Jaén in 2003 and 2008, respectively. He has made research stays in the University of Oviedo (Spain), the Charles University (Czech Republic), and in the Madeira Chemistry Research Center (Portugal). Since 2014, he is working as a research scientist at the Department of Physical and Analytical Chemistry (University of Jaén, Spain).

His research interests include the development of automated luminescence sensors with applications in the clinical, food and environmental fields; the analysis of natural products (mainly polyphenols) in plants and foods by HPLC-MS/MS; the quantification of trace elements in foods by ICP-MS; and the analysis of contaminants in foods by GC-MS

Helga Naes has a Ph.D. in Cyanobacteria and water quality from the University of Oslo (1988). From 1988 to 1992, she had a research position at the Meat cooperation of Norway working on lactic acid bacteria, gene-technology and fermentation. From 1993 and up to now, she has had different positions at Matforsk, now called Nofima (Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research), as Senior Research Scientist and Research Director. She is now Head (Research Director) of the Food Safety and quality department at Nofima. In 2003-2004 she was offered a sabbatical leave to study leadership at Sloan Business School, MIT, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. In the same period these studies were combined by a position as Industrial Adviser at the Norwegian Trade Council. Her main interest is to help companies to produce safe food with optimal shelf-life and minimal waste. Controlling the microbiota and optimize packaging methods are important tools in that respect. She has led the project of establishing a new and unique production facility of biosafety level 3, The Pathogen pilot plant, where scientist can study life-threatening bacteria in a realistic production environment. This is in collaboration with the University of Life Sciences, Norway.

Produce safe food with optimal shelf-life and minimal waste, Controlling the microbiota and optimize packaging methods

Lynn Frewer is Professor of Food and Society at Newcastle University, UK. Previously she was Professor of Food Safety and Consumer Behaviour at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and Head of Consumer Science at the Institute of Food research at Norwich in the UK. Research interests focus on understanding and measuring societal and individual responses to risks and benefits associated with food, health, sustainability and safety, methodological innovation regarding the application of systematic reviews in the social science, and agrifood governance and associated policy issues, including policy translation of scientific results and foresight. She has had extensive involvement in EU and nationally funded projects, primarily in the area of social science and the (agri) food sector. She has published over 165 refereed journal articles and edited 5 books). She has also been involved in national and European research funding and strategy committees.

Understanding and measuring societal and individual responses to risks and benefits associated with food, health, sustainability and safety, methodological innovation regarding the application of systematic reviews in the social science, and agrifood governance and associated policy issues, including policy translation of scientific results and foresight

Nikos Mavroudis is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in Food Science and leads the laboratory of Food Engineering & Separation of Actives (FoESA) in the Dept. of Applied Sciences in Northumbria University at Newcastle. Previously Nikos was a Research Scientist and Project Leader for Unilever R&D for 9 years and has been responsible for developing the separation expertise within Unilever R&D Vlaardingen, the Netherlands. His research interests are focused on Food Security & Food Safety, particularly relevant is his interest on bacterial flow cytometry and surface decontamination. Nikos has published 10 research articles in peer review journals and 12 patents/patent filings and his work has attracted ca 325 citations excluding self-citations.

Food Safety: Surface decontamination of intact agricultural commodities and fresh cut fruit and vegetables. Bacterial flow cytometry as method for microflora enumeration and assessment of physiological states of Bacillus spores. Assessment of spore viability in GIT. Food Security: Generation of functional ingredients from agricultural commodities and agri-food waste streams. Application of biorefinery concepts for waste/by-product stream valorisation.

Dr Clare Narrod leads the Risk Analysis Program at the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition at University of Maryland. She received her Ph.D. in Energy Management and Environmental Policy in 1997 and a Master's Degree in International Development and Appropriate Technology both from the University of Pennsylvania. From 1998-2000 she served as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Risk Analysis Fellow at USDA. Prior to coming to JIFSAN, she worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute, the Office of Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis at United States Department of Agriculture and at the Food and Agriculture Organization. She has consulted for the World Bank and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture. She has field experience in Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, Thailand, Mali, Mexico, Vietnam, and Zambia.

Monitoring and impact evaluation of food safety capacity building efforts, identifying cost-effective food safety risk reduction measures for different size producers in developing countries, and understanding the role of public-private partnerships in improving food safety in developing countries

Bonnie Buntain served as Professor of Public Health in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine from 2013 to 2015 in the Department of Ecosystem and Public Health, with a joint appointment in the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Canada. She is one of the founding deans of that new veterinary school and served for 5 years as the Assistant Dean of Government and International Relations. Previously, she held many position over 17 years in the U.S. federal government, including Chief Public Health Veterinarian, Assistant Deputy Administer of Public Health and Sciences, and founding Director of Animal Production Food Safety in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service. In other USDA offices she was the Staff Director of Animal Care and the National Program Leader of Veterinary Extension Service. In the Food and Drug Administration she started her government career as a Clinical Reviewer of Antibiotics in Food Animals. For 10 year previously she was the sole owner and veterinarian of Oahu Equine Veterinary Clinic in Hawaii, where she lived for 30 years and received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Animal Sciences at the University of Hawaii. Dr. Buntain received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 1977 at Colorado State University, Internship at Glasgow, Scotland, and Residency in Large Animal Medicine at the University of Missouri. She is a Diplomate Emeritus of the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners in Equine Practice and a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine. In July, 2015, Professor Buntain was honoured as Fellow of Aberystwyth University.

food safety, humane slaughter and handling and optimizing the use, retention and recruitment of public health veterinarians

Cristina L.M. Silva is Associate Prof. at Portuguese Catholic University – College of Biotechnology (ESB). She is Chem. Eng. and PhD in Biotechnology and Food Engineering, and is involved in research on quality and safety of processed foods, with special emphasis on mathematical modelling and optimization of the processes. She is also working on sterilization of medical devices. She published 90 papers in refereed international journals – which have received to date 859 cites since 1996 listed by the ISI® web of knowledge and has an Elsevier SCOPUS® h-index of 19.

design and optimization of food process conditions; predictive microbiology as a tool to fruits and vegetables, fruit juices, sensory analysis, thermal processes, non-thermal innovative processes (such as ozonation, ultrasonic and UV radiation, as novel preservation techniques for fruits and vegetables), drying and freezing, optimize food processes; evaluation of food quality changes due to conventional and novel processing;evaluation of food quality and safety changes during storage; and formulation of new foods.

Kirsten Brandt is Senior Lecturer of Food Science and Nutrition in the Food Quality and Health Research Group of the Human Nutrition Research Centre at Newcastle University. The research group has an established track record in human intervention trials and risk-benefit assessments with foods and food supplements, benefitting from excellent access to highly motivated volunteers, healthy or belonging to relevant at-risk groups, and to recently established purpose-built facilities. It carries out investigational studies for public bodies such as the Department of Health as well as trials of a wide range of different health-related effects of foods and food supplements for large and small companies. Dr Brandt’s research focuses on food quality and impact on human health, including assessing health-promoting properties of plant constituents previously considered harmful for human health, including secondary metabolites and nitrate, as well as understanding of the effect of production factors on plant product composition. She teaches on the BSc honours degree programme ‘Food and Human Nutrition’ and the MSc degree programme ‘Medicinal Plants and Functional Foods’.

food quality, health of humans and animals, multidisciplinary approaches, food safety, agricultural methods and plant chemistry.

Ara Kanekanian gained his Ph.D. from Reading University – UK in 1983. He has been in academia for over 20 years with main interest in protein chemistry and fermentation technology. He has also been working for 10 years in the food industry and undertook several consultancy and turnkey projects related to food and dairy processing within Europe and the Middle East. He is a member of the publication committee of the International Journal of Dairy Technology and has published several scientific and technical papers. Other research activities include milk allergy, immune modulation and growth factors in colostrum, micro- and nano-encapsulation of nutraceuticals. Currently, he has been participating in several European projects regarding bioactive compounds in food for their health benefits as antioxidants, anti-inflammatory, anti-hypercholesterolemic, antihypertensive and anti-carcinogenic agents. He is also editing a book titled “Milk and Dairy Products as Functional Foods” commissioned by the Society of Dairy Technology – UK to be published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2013.

Food Preservation Technology, Chemical Analysis of Foods, Food Biotechnology, Nutritional Therapy, New Product Development, Dairy Technology and Raw Food Materials

Faiza Osman has done PhD nutrition with training in epidemiology, bioethics, management development, program management, before completing her BSc. and MSc. in Food Science and nutrition; focusing in the areas of Infectious diseases, food safety ethics and regulations, clinical trials, GCP, GLP, refugee’s health, humanitarians and projects assessment and evaluation, Focal point in bioethics and human protection, international consultation in bioethics and nutrition. She has evaluated, assessed and trained people in their theses, being a field certified trainer from CADIT Canada. She has valuable experience working with: IAEA, UNICEF, EU, ISW, FAO, UNHCR, GOAL, ADRA, TDR, DNDI and other International organizations. She is also the Founder and head of nutrition, epidemiology and refugees’ health, Institute of Endemic Disease, University of Khartoum, Sudan. The main features of this facility are research, training and committee services with 15 years of quality experience.

quality of safe food, Food Security,Food Safety, Physiological Impact of Food on Human Body , General Health, application of ethics, GMP, GLP Clinical assessment and evaluation, assess, monitor, evaluate on-going policies and its impacts , evaluation of intervention strategies and application of national regional and international regulatory programs in food and nutrition.

Mitchel Abaracoso Andrada was born August 17, 1985 in Roxas City, Capiz, Philippines. A former elected youth leader and a non-governmental volunteer. She started her career as QA Laboratory Analyst in manufacturing processing plant working full-time while doing her Post-Graduate study as Master’s in Biology at the University of the Philippines. She also worked as University Researcher in the Division of Biological Sciences and conducted research studies under the National Biotechnology and Molecular Biology funded by the Department of Science and Technology. After her postgraduate degree she rendered service at the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources as microbiologist and transferred to a private manufacturing and exporter company as a Quality and Certification Supervisor. She then worked as an Analyst and Statistician in the Philippine Fisheries and Development Authority doing post-harvest facility study through infrastructure projects while working as a safety-officer and in a construction company. She is also a Food Safety and HACCP consultant for some processing plants in the Philippines and writes food safety manuals. Currently, she is working as a Quality and Certification Manager in an aquaculture company based in Malaysia. She also conducts training and seminar on Food Safety, Good Manufacturing Practices, Good Hygienic Practices, Standard Sanitation Operating Practices and other housekeeping and sanitation procedures.

Food Safety, Fishery Development, Biotechnology, Microbiology, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Environmental Studies, Aquaculture, Agriculture

Hanee M. Al-Dmoor holds a PhD in food science and technology. He is an Associate Professor at Nutrition & Food Processing Department in Al-Balqa Applied University. He has 34 scientific papers and researches many of projects in food chemistry and product developments. Also, currently he is a Food Science & Technology Consultant in private food sector in MENA region countries. Through his effort and experience, he has achieved a good repute as an active member of many technical committees for food in Jordan; like the Jordan Food and Drug Administration (JFDA), Jordan Institution for Standards and Metrology (JISM), the Ministry of Environment, and the Ministry of Agriculture. He provides training courses in food technology, safety and quality control and management systems to the food inspectors and food scientists throughout Jordan and the Middle East countries. One of the most important achievements for him is organizing the Jordanian Food Day in Al-Balqa Applied University. Presently, he has established the Scientific Food Center for food research & developments, analysis, consultation, and training, and other scientific services for MENA region countries.

Nutrition and Food Processing, Food Analysis, Food Preservation and Processing, Food Additives, Human Nutrition, Cereal Processing, Dairy Processing, Food Safety, Food Quality Control, Food Chemistry, consultation, research, developments, ISO, HACCP and GMP