Online Webinar 2019 - Live Webinar 60 minutes Pharmaceutical Contamination and Food Safety

What you'll learn?
Know which foods contain drugs
Understand how pharmaceuticals get into foods
Get basic knowledge of interactions between food drugs and consumed drugs and drug absorption
Develop a competent traceability and recall program
Review your suppliers for food residue violations
Understand the problem of antimicrobial resistance resulting from antibiotics in animal feeds
Review the controversies involved with GMO and antibiotic foods
Look for states with laws in conflict with the federal government
Review some outbreaks resulting from pharmaceutical contamination that impacted consumers
Overview
What foods have drugs in them? How do the drugs get there? What impact can these foods have on humans? What impact can a recall of pharmaceutically contaminated foods have on your business?
Processors, packers, distributors and other food supply chain members need to know which foods are becoming illegal due to newly enacted laws and potential impact to segments of the consumer population.
Antibiotics, antimicrobial resistance, antidepressants, allergies, inappropriately labeled GMO (biotechnology) in foods cause interactions between the drug in the food and drugs consumed by humans. Many of these foods are making recall headlines costing the food supply chain millions of dollars in lost revenue.
Who should attend?
Food supply chain upper management personnel
Financial personnel
Buyers
Inventory personnel
All registered food facilities food safety and quality personnel
GMO
Managers in retail and restaurant operations
Compliance officers
Import personnel
Food logistics professionals
Sales and marketing personnel
Labeling specialists
Why should you attend?
A basic understanding of pharmaceutically contaminated foods is critical to any food safety program.
With the Supply Chain Rules issued under FSMA (Food Safety Modernization Act) preventive controls, food supply chain members now share liability as a result of their inability to identify and help control foods deemed to be harmful as a result of pharmaceutical contamination. Learn where to look to see if your suppliers are in violation of Food Safety Inspection Service (USDA FSIS) food residue violations
States are establishing laws against the use of drugs in animal feeds regardless of federal resistance to such laws. Biotechnology companies are creating animal feeds and crop proteins that are pharmaceuticals, vaccines, or industrial enzymes for use in biochemical laboratories. The use of many of these drugs is illegal in some states and other countries.
This initial review will help food safety, quality, processor, buyer, compliance and other food supply chain members to begin to investigate the impact of pharmaceutical contamination in the foods they purchase, process, import and sell. We will also cover traceability issues critical to the appropriate location and identification of pharmaceutically impacted foods in the event of recalls.
Faculty
Dr. John M. Ryan is currently working with various food and RFID/Traceability suppliers and a variety of sensor providers to implement an international RFID produce supply chain track and trace and food safety system between the State of Hawaii and the Asia-Pacific Region. He is a the quality assurance administrator over two branches within the department: Commodities and Measurement Standards which include labs used to test various processed foods and primary involvement with food safety. He previously implemented the nations' first RFID food traceability (farm-distribution-retail) project.