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San Diego, CA
March 9-12, 2015
Sunday, March 8, 2015
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
FDA Staff Meeting│ Location:
Monday, March 9, 2015
12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
9:00 am – 2:00 pm
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Registration │ Location:
MFRPA Board of Directors Meeting │ Location:
FDA-State Liaison Meeting │ Location:
Standards 1, 7, 8 & 9 Committee Meeting│ Location
Standards 2, 3, 4 & 6 Committee Meeting│ Location
Standards 5 & 10 Committee Meeting│ Location
MFRPA Board of Directors Meeting │ Location:
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
7:00 am – 8:00 am
Registration │ Location:
8:00 am – 12:30 pm
Joint General Session (ISO Cap and MFRPA) │ Location:
8:00 am – 10:15 am
Moderator: Natalie Adan, Division Director, Georgia Department of Agriculture
8:00 am – 8:15 am
Welcome/Introductions
Ronald Klein, Program Director, Association of Food and Drug Officials
Steve Mandernach, Bureau Chief for Food and Consumer Affairs, Iowa Department of Inspection & Appeals
and Chair, MFRP Alliance
Daniel Rice, Food Laboratory Director, New York Department of Agriculture & Markets, and President, Association of
Public Health Laboratories
8:15 am – 8:45 am
FDA’s Food Research Plan: What do we need to know more about to be effective regulators in 2020 and
how do we collaborate?
Palmer Orlandi, Ph.D., Senior Science Advisor, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
8:45 am – 9:30 am
Partnership for Food Protection Update
Barbara Cassens, Senior Advisor/Acting Director, Office of Partnerships, Office of Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Food and Drug
Administration
Patrick Kennelly, Chief, Food Safety Section, California Department of Public Health
Claudia Coles, Administrator, Office of Compliance and Outreach, WA Department of Agriculture
9:30 am – 10:15 am
Where we have been and where are we going
Steven Solomon, DVM, Deputy Associate Commissioner for Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Roberta Wagner, Deputy Center Director for Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
10:15 am – 10:30 am
Break
10:30 am – 12:30
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10:30 am – 11:00 am
Moderator: Steve Moris, Program Manager, Kansas Department of Agriculture
How does Standard No. 10 of the MFRPS and Lab Accreditation to ISO Standard 17025 promote Food
Safety and Integration?
Steven Sobek, Laboratory Director, WI Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection
Michael Moore, Director, Food Protection Program, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Success Stories for Laboratory and MFRP Collaboration, Rapid Response Teams and CORE
Travis Goodman, Consumer Safety Officer, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Brenda Holman, Deputy Director, CORE, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
Sustainability
Barbara Cassens, Senior Advisor/Acting Director, Office of Partnerships, Office of Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Food and Drug
Administration
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Revised 2/11/15
Lunch On Your Own
FDA Liaison Staff Meeting │ Location:
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2:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Program Manager Town Hall
Session (Closed Session –
Program Manager or Designee
Only) │ Location:
Session Moderator: Michael Antee,
R.S., Sellfish Sanitation Program
Specialist, U.S. Food and Drug
Administration
Ellen Morrison, Assistant
Commissioner for Operations, U.S.
Food and Drug Administration
Steven Solomon, DVM, Deputy
Associate Commissioner for
Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Food and
Drug Administration
Barbara Cassens, Senior
Advisor/Acting Director, Office of
Partnerships, Office of Regulatory
Affairs, U.S. Food and Drug
Administration
Jeff Farrar, DVM, Ph.D., Director,
Intergovernmental Affairs and
Partnerships, U.S. Food and Drug
Administration
Roberta Wagner, Deputy Center
Director for Regulatory Affairs, U.S.
Food and Drug Administration
William Correll, Director, Office of
Compliance, U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (Invited)
3:15 pm – 3:45 pm
Break
3:45 pm – 5:00 pm
Continued: Program Manager
Town Hall Session (Closed
Session – Program Manager or
Designee Only) │ Location:
Session Moderator: Michael Antee,
R.S., Sellfish Sanitation Program
Specialist, U.S. Food and Drug
Administration
Brenda Holman, Deputy Director,
CORE, U.S. Food and Drug
Administration
Abe Brown, III, Director, Contracts &
Grants, U.S. Food and Drug
Administration
Wendy Campbell, Project Officer,
Office of Partnerships, U.S. Food
and Drug Administration
Ellen Buchanan, Audit Staff Director,
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Timothy Weigner, Director, Standards
Implementation Staff, U.S. Food
and Drug Administration
Patricia Alcock, Director, Division of
Human Resource Development,
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Concurrent Sessions (Pick One)
Internal Auditing for Program
Improvement │ Location:
Amir Javed, Food and Drug Program
Specialist, CA Department of
Public Health
Julie Loera, Food Safety Officer, Texas
Department of State Health
Services
Repeat: Internal Auditing for
Program Improvement) │
Location:
Amir Javed, Food and Drug Program
Specialist, CA Department of
Public Health
Julie Loera, Food Safety Officer, Texas
Department of State Health
Services
Compliance, Enforcement, and
Public Health Protection
(Standards 6) │ Location:
Thomas Tederington, Food Policy
Specialist, Michigan Department of
Agriculture and Rural Development
Matt Colson, Environmental
Administrator, Division of Food
Safety, Florida Department of
Agriculture & Consumer Services
Repeat: Compliance,
Enforcement, and Public Health
Protection (Standards 6) │
Location:
Thomas Tederington, Food Policy
Specialist, Michigan Department of
Agriculture and Rural Development
Matt Colson, Environmental
Administrator, Division of Food
Safety, Florida Department of
Agriculture & Consumer Services
Meet & Greet │ Location:
Agenda is subject to change
Revised 2/11/15
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015
7:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration │ Location:
8:00 am – 9:45 am
Moderator: Pamela Miles, Program Supervisor, Virginia Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services │ Location:
8:00 am – 8:45 am
Where are we now with Implementation: Audit & SIS Team Review
Timothy Weigner, Director, Standards Implementation Staff, Office of Partnerships, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Ellen Buchanan, Director, Audit Staff, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
8:45 am – 9:45 am
Lessons Learned from the 5 MFRPS Pilot States
Session Moderator: Michael Moore, Director, Food Protection Program, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
James Melvin, Assistant Director of Regulatory Programs, North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer
Services
Russell Lilly, Manager, Missouri State Department of Health and Senior Services
Peter Haase, Administrative Manager, Wisconsin Department of Agriculture
Stephen Stich, Director, New York Department of Agriculture & Markets
Gesinee Tolman, Food Safety Specialist, Oregon Department of Agriculture
9:45 am – 10:15 am
10:15 am – 12:00 pm
10:15 am – 11:00 am
BREAK
Moderator: Sheri Morris, Food Program Manager, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture │ Location:
Future of the Standards in Enhancing Public Health from the State Perspective:
Constructing the Culture of Continuous Improvement
Benjamin Miller, Food and Response Program Manager, Minnesota Department of Agriculture
Kimberly Stryker, Program Manager, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation
11:00 am – 11:30 am
Document Control
Bryanne Shaw, Biology Section Manager, Minnesota Department of Agriculture
11:30 am – 12:00 pm
Preparing for FDA Audit/Assessment
Skya Murphy, Program and Policy Analyst, Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Lunch On Your Own
Concurrent Sessions (Pick One)
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Consideration of Changes │ Location:
Steve Mandernach, Bureau Chief for Food and Consumer
Affairs, Iowa Department of Inspection & Appeals and
Chair, MFRP Alliance
Michael Moore, Director, Food Protection Program,
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Kentucky DPH Food Safety Branch
Texas Department of State Health Services
BREAK
Concurrent Sessions (Pick One)
Continued: Consideration of Changes (Will
Roundtables: State Success Stories – Industry and
continue until complete) │ Location:
Community Relations │ Location:
Steve Mandernach, Bureau Chief for Food and Consumer
Affairs, Iowa Department of Inspection & Appeals and
Chair, MFRP Alliance
Michael Moore, Director, Food Protection Program,
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Revised 2/11/15
Roundtables: State Success Stories — Best
Practices in Recalls/Best Practices in Tracebacks
and Traceforwards │ Location:
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Thursday, March 12, 2015
7:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration │ Location:
8:00 am – 12:00 pm
8:00 am – 8:45 am
Moderator: Adam Inman, Assistant Program Manager, Kansas Department of Agriculture │ Location:
Food Regulators: An Advocate’s Perspective │ Location:
William D. Marler, Esq., Managing Partner, Marler Clark, The Food Safety Law Firm
8:45 am – 9:45 am
Public Health Perspective
David Acheson, M.D., Founder and CEO, The Acheson Group
9:45 am – 10:00 am
10:00 am – 11:00 am
BREAK
Training Panel
David Read, Senior Advisor, International Food Protection Training Institute
Ronald Klein, Program Director, Association of Food and Drug Officials
Patricia Alcock, Director, Division of Human Resource Development, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
11:00 am – 11:45 pm
Next Steps in Change Process
Steve Mandernach, Bureau Chief for Food and Consumer Affairs, Iowa Department of Inspection & Appeals
and Chair, MFRP Alliance
Timothy Weigner, Director, Standards Implementation Staff, Office of Partnerships, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
11:45 am – 12:00 pm
Closing
Steve Mandernach, Bureau Chief for Food and Consumer Affairs, Iowa Department of Inspection & Appeals
and Chair, MFRP Alliance
Barbara Cassens, Senior Advisor/Acting Director, Office of Partnerships, Office of Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Food and Drug
Administration
12:00pm – 1:15 pm
1:15 pm – 5:00 pm
Lunch On Your Own
Sampling Workshop (Separate Agenda) │ Location:
The MFRP Alliance is sponsoring a Sampling Workshop, which begins after lunch on Thursday and continues until noon
on Friday. The workshop is intended to introduce food regulatory program managers and laboratorians to information
that will help them develop cost-effective food sampling plans that will result in data, which can be used for defensible
food safety decisions. Topics include the key elements of sampling quality criteria; how sampling quality criteria impacts
the sampling protocol, sampling theory, importance of selecting sample tools and equipment appropriate for the media
to be sampled and the correct use of those tools, and quality control for primary sample collection and laboratory
processing.
The workshop will include a panel presentation of food program managers and regulatory specialists who will provide
perspective on how to integrate into your sampling programs. The training supports the MFRP standards and laboratory
accreditation to ISO 17025 standards.
The workshop presented by Chuck Ramsey, with founder and president of EnviroStat, Inc. Mr. Ramsey is technical
consultant for the GOODSamples (Guidance On Obtaining Defensible Samples guidance being developed by a working
group funded through the FDA Cooperative Agreement for Building an Integrated Laboratory System to Advance the
Safety of Food and Animal Feed. The work group is comprised of AFDO, APHL, AAFCO and industry members.
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Meeting Review: MFRPA Board and FDA OP and Audit Staff
Friday, March 13, 2015
8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Sampling Workshop Continued (Separate Agenda) │ Location:
Agenda is subject to change
Revised 2/11/15
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