Food Protein Workshop

Developing a Toolbox of Analytical Solutions to Address Adulteration
June 16 – 17, 2009
USP Headquarters, Rockville, Maryland

Overview

Proteins are a nutritious and economically valuable component of food ingredients – which can provide incentive for adulteration. This happened most recently when many children were sickened or died from milk products adulterated with melamine to increase their apparent protein content. Currently used tests did not detect this, and new methods are called for to help prevent another such tragedy.

Hear the latest thinking on how to detect falsified protein levels. Join leading domestic and international scientists from the food industry, academia, governments, and trade associations to explore which tools work best to measure food protein. Discuss emerging ways to protect consumers from intentionally contaminated food ingredients, to safeguard your food supply chain, and to protect your brand.

Workshop Planning Committee

Roger A. Clemens, Ph.D., MPH
USC School of Pharmacy

Jonathan DeVries, Ph.D.
Medallion Laboratories, General Mills, Inc.

Janet Eastridge, M.S.
USDA–ARS

Andrew Ebert, Ph.D.
International Food Additives Council

Eric Eccleston, Ph.D.
AminoAcids.com

Daniel Folmer, Ph.D.
CFSAN/FDA

David B. Funk, Ph.D., D.Sc. (hc)
USDA–GIPSA

Jim Harnly, Ph.D.
USDA–ARS

Michael Kennedy, Ph.D.
Cargill, Inc.

Frank Konstantinides
AminoAcids.com

Robert L. Magaletta, Ph.D.
Kraft Foods Global

Karen Phinney, Ph.D.
NIST

Suzanne Nielsen, Ph.D.
Purdue University

Jeanne I. Rader, Ph.D.
CFSAN/FDA

Juan Romero
Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research

Richard Stadler, Ph.D.
Nestlé Product Technology Centre

Darryl Sullivan, Ph.D.
Covance Laboratories Inc.

Franz Ulberth, Ph.D.
Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements

Paul Whittaker, Ph.D.
CFSAN/FDA

Jeffrey Moore, Ph.D.
U.S. Pharmacopeia

Agenda

Click here (63KB) for the most up–to–date workshop agenda (as of June 10, 2009).

Workshop Presentations

Opening Plenary (4.7MB)
Breakout Session A (5.9MB)
Breakout Session B (2MB)
Breakout Session A Summary, Recommendations and Actions (299KB)
Breakout Session B Summary, Recommendations and Actions (154KB)
USP Tool Box (107KB)
USP Next Steps (107KB)

Background Documents

Workshop Introduction and Objectives (57KB)
Speaker Biographies (63KB) (listed in order of appearance)

Click here (43KB) to view the most recent list of exhibitors (as of June 10, 2009).

Contact Information

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