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International Food Ingredients Issues Workshop Agenda

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
USP Headquarters, Rockville, Maryland

Spalding Auditorium
7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Workshop)
5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Reception and Dinner)

Goals/Objectives

Define the International Food Standards and Conformity Assessment Landscape

What are the issues and challenges?
Is there an opportunity for global action?
Identify opportunities for future directions

7:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m.	1. Welcome Darrell Abernethy, M.D., Chief Science Officer, USP (1.1MB) James Griffiths, Ph.D., Vice President, Food & Dietary Supplements (2.9MB) Andrew Ebert, Ph.D., M.S., Chair, USP Food Ingredients Expert Committee (872KB)
8:30 a.m.	2. Country/Region Specific Presentations USA (494KB) (Annette M. McCarthy, Ph.D., U.S. FDA CFSAN (32KB)) Canada (785KB) (John Salminen, Bureau of Chemical Safety, Food Directorate, Health Canada (32KB)) Europe (253KB) (Dr. Manfred Luetzow, saqual, GmbH Switzerland (36KB))
	Panel Discussion: Jonathan DeVries, Ph.D., Member, USP Food Ingredients Expert Committee, Moderator
	Break
	Mercosur (963KB) (Dr. Susana Socolovsky, Pentachem SRL (40KB)) Mexico (487KB) (Antonio Hernandez-Cardoso, M.Sc., USP (34KB)) Middle East (580KB) (P. Vincent Hegarty, Ph.D., Institute for Food Laws and Regulations, Michigan State University (53KB))
	Panel Discussion: Roger Clemens, DR.Ph, MPH, Member, USP Food Ingredients Expert Committee, Moderator
12:00 noon	Lunch
1:00 p.m.	2. Country/Region Specific Presentations - Continued China (183KB) (Dr. Junshi Chen, Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (47KB)) Australia (645KB) (Simon Brooke-Taylor, Ph.D., M.A.I.F.S.T., Brooke-Taylor & Co Pty Ltd (46KB)) Japan (122KB) (Dr. Kenji Ishii, Japan Food Additives Association (32KB))
	Panel Discussion: Lori Klopf, Ph.D., Member, USP Food Ingredients Expert Committee, Moderator
	Break
3:00 p.m.	3. Facilitated Discussion (Drs. Williams and Griffiths, Moderators) During this session, participants will have the opportunity to discuss and follow-up on topics brought forward in the morning/afternoon session. The goal is to identify key next steps and future directions for international collaboration on food ingredient topics.
4:30 p.m.	Compendial Perspectives / Wrap Up
5:00 p.m.	Meeting Adjourns
5:00 p.m.	Networking Reception/Building Tours
5:45 p.m.	Dinner
7:00 p.m.	Adjourn for the evening