Training Proposal for Agribrands Purina Canada Inc.

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• Towards a National Food Safety Strategy
  Plenary Session Process Overview
• Date March 22 23, 2005
• Time March 22 - 800 am 600 pm
• March 23 - 800 am 430 pm
• Purpose of the Workshop
• The globalization of trade and the growing
  importance of food safety to consumers is
  changing the approach to food production
• All stakeholder groups represented here today
  (government, industry, academia and consumers)
  must work together and be proactive in their
  approaches to food safety, especially with issues
  such as BSE remaining at the centre of everyones
  attention
• Much is already being done across Canada to meet
  the new food safety challenges, and you heard
  about many aspects during the presentations and
  discussions yesterday

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• Towards a National Food Safety Strategy
  Plenary Session Process Overview
• Purpose of the Workshop
• You, collectively, have been invited to
  participate in these next 2 days to
• consider ways to further coordinate food safety
  activities between governments, industry,
  consumers and academia
• consider ways to improve communication among
  stakeholders
• discover ways to better utilize resources for
  food safety activities
• develop good ideas that could ultimately be
  implemented as part of a national food safety
  strategy
• The recommendations that come from these 2 days
  will be used to help strengthen Canadas food
  safety system, a belief our many sponsors hold

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• Towards a National Food Safety Strategy
  Plenary Session Process Overview
• What will Happen to the Recommendations
• We know that the next 2 days are a significant
  investment of your time and energy, and
  appreciate that very much
• We want to ensure that we utilize the expertise
  in this room to develop a list of excellent
  recommendations. We will ask you to focus on top
  1 3 priorities.

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• Towards a National Food Safety Strategy
  Plenary Session Process Overview
• From here, the following steps will occur with
  your recommendations
• The recommendations will be collated.
• Recommendations will be submitted to the Planning
  Committee, which will analyze them and prepare a
  Recommendations Report, by the end of May
• While preparing this Report, the Planning
  Committee may need to contact attendees at this
  workshop to get further clarification as
  needed.
• Once translated, the Recommendations Report will
  be circulated, mid-June to all attendees at the
  Workshop and to other key groups/individuals for
  their consideration in the development and
  delivery of their respective programs and
  initiatives.
• A summary of the Recommendation Report will be
  made public by the end of June

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Towards a National Food Safety Strategy
Plenary Session Process Overview
Planning Committee Membership Chair Mansel W.
Griffiths, Ph.D, Director, Canadian Research
Institute for Food Safety Mike Cassidy, Ph.D.
Coordinator, Food Safety Science Unit, Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and Food Jim Pettit, DVM,
President, Jim Pettit Inc. Frances Nattress,
Ph.D, A/Science Director, Lacombe Research
Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Gail
Seed, M.Sc., Executive Director, Ontario Food
Protection Association Louise Sharpe, Manager,
Intergovernmental Affairs, Canadian Food
Inspection Agency
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Towards a National Food Safety Strategy
Plenary Session Process Overview
Planning Committee Membership Paul Sockett,
Ph.D., Director, Foodborne, Waterborne and
Zoonotic Division, Public Health Agency of
Canada Anne-Marie St. Laurent, Associate
Director, Interagency Program, Food Directorate,
Health Products and Food Branch, Health
Canada Brenda Watson, Executive Director,
Canadian Partnership for Consumer Food Safety
Education Aline Dimitri, Ph.D., Policy Analyst,
Executive Directors Office, Canadian Food
Inspection Agency Susan Sabatini, DVM, Conference
Organizer, Canadian Research Institute for Food
Safety Peggy LeSueur, P.Ag., Business Manager,
Canadian Research institute for Food Safety
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• Towards a National Food Safety Strategy
  Plenary Session Process Overview
• Workshop Setup
• small facilitated break-out groups will be
  utilized
• break-out groups will consist of representatives
  from all the stakeholder groups and expertise in
  different subject areas
• We expect that time will be at a premium
  throughout the 2 days, and thank you in advance
  for doing your best to adhere to the timelines
  set up. Through trial runs with the facilitator
  group, we have designed a process to maximize the
  values of the recommendations to be brought
  forward
• We will use a technique called RACI to help each
  group develop some detail around each
  recommendation.

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• Towards a National Food Safety Strategy
  Plenary Session Process Overview
• Workshop Setup
• Each break-out group will cover 5 different food
  safety subject areas over the 2 days
• Food safety research
• Surveillance of zoonotic and foodborne illness
  and of food hazards
• Food safety policy
• Food inspection (to include discussions on
  standards, HACCP, etc)
• Food safety training