Objectives
It aims to provide basic knowledge on food safety situation in developing countries and microbial food contamination and related health risks. After an overview of food-borne disease issues, the seminar will move into risk analysis concept with an emphasis on risk assessment and risk communication. In risk assessment, participants will be introduced to stochastic processes, how to build and run a simple risk model using @RISK software.
Seminar agenda
28 July, Thursday
09:00 – Introduction, objectives
09:15 – Food safety in developing countries and Vietnam: Context and issues
09:45 – Risk analysis: Concepts and components
10:15 – Microbial risk assessment (Codex)
- Hazard identification
- Dose response
- Exposure assessment
- Risk characterization
11:45 – Risk communication: Theory and application
12:15 – Lunch
13:45 – PigRisk project as a framework for risk assessment
14:15 – Practices of risk model development from PigRisk project
15:00 – Tea break
15:30 – Practices, @RISK software, etc.
16:15 – Reflections
16:30 – Closing
Participants
Twenty-five participants, mostly MSc students from the food technology international graduate program of the Vietnam National University of Agriculture (VNUA), will be attending the seminar. Junior lecturers from the faculty of food technology and veterinary medicine of VNUA are also expected to participate.
Seminar organizers/speakers
Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy
- Dean of Faculty of Food Science and Technology, VNUA
Nguyen Viet Hung
- Food safety and EcoHealth scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
Fred Unger
- Veterinary Epidemiologist, ILRI
Tran Thi Tuyet Hanh
Lecturer, Environmental health, Hanoi School of Public Health (HSPH)
Luu Quoc Toan
- Lecturer, Nutrition and Food Safety, HSPH
For more information, please contact:
Ms. Vu Thi Lan
VNUA Faculty of Food Science and Technology
Mobile: +84 983643005
Email: lanvt191@gmail.com
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Hanoi
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