eNews Alert 2019-08-08

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MoniQA eNews Alert 2019-08-08

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Deadline 15 August 2019: Benefit from the discounted Early Bird Registration   for the 3rd MoniQA International Symposium “Food Fraud Prevention and Effective Food Allergen Management”, Rockville, MD, USA, 30 October – 1 November 2019!

https://rockville2019.moniqa.org

Register online now and benefit from a 15% Early Bird discount before 15 August 2019! 
https://rockville2019.moniqa.org/registration-information

We warmly invite you to attend the 3rd MoniQA International Symposium on “Food Fraud Prevention and Effective Food Allergen Management”, in Rockville, MD, USA, 30 October – 1 November 2019, https://rockville2019.moniqa.org organised by MoniQA Association www.moniqa.org and hosted by US Pharmacopeia www.usp.org!

An exciting program https://rockville2019.moniqa.org/program with practical litigation cases, strategies and methods for detecting and combating food fraud, will be presented by renowned speakers from around the world. Join us in Rockville and meet the "Food Detectives" and get to know modern technologies that are looking for the "unknown", learn about legal regulations and get practical advice for protecting your branded products, for correct food labeling, and ultimately to maintain consumer trust. Food allergen management and gluten-free are special cases of assuring food integrity most relevant to food safety. Newly developed food allergy and food allergen management tools are essential to meet modern society’s needs. Innovative online tools for risk based and effective food allegen management as well as the most recent advances in allergen detection methods will be discussed during this symposium. The symposium program includes speakers from Science and Innovation, from industry, public authorities, international organizations, law firms and food research institutions.

Posters and table top reservations are still being accepted!

Submit your abstract! for poster presentation by 15 September 2019 https://rockville2019.moniqa.org/abstracts

Reserve your table top exhibition space! Only a limited number of spaces are available, spaces are granted on a first-come-first-served basis, sponsors will get preferred reservations. Table top spaces can be reserved online https://rockville2019.moniqa.org/registration-information

Become a sponsor! and support the symposium, enhance your visibility and brand awareness https://rockville2019.moniqa.org/sponsor Check out who sponsored the last events in this series.

We thank our first main sponsors, who are supporting this event.


 

Please note the conference venue and the conference hotel:
The Conference Venue will accommodate the main conference, the welcome reception and the MoniQA Task Force Meetings:

USP Conference Center
12601 Twinbrook Parkway
Rockville, Maryland 20852
USA

The Conference Hotel is about two blocks/10 min walk away from the conference venue. The conference hotel will also accommodate the conference dinner and offer preferred rates for registered participants:

Hilton Washington DC/Rockville Hotel & Executive Meeting Center
1750 Rockville Pike
Rockville, Maryland 20852-1699
USA
TEL: +1-301-468-1100 FAX: +1-301-468-0308


Combine your MoniQA/USP attendance in Rockville with a participation at the NIST Food Safety Workshop in Gaithersburg https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2019/10/nist-food-safety-workshop. The MoniQA/USP main conference continues right after the NIST food safety main meeting. Both events are only a few miles apart from each other.


Meet the speakers and check out the program of the 3rd MoniQA International Symposium “Food Fraud Prevention and Effective Food Allergen Management”, Rockville, MD, USA, 30 October – 1 November 2019!

https://rockville2019.moniqa.org

An exciting program https://rockville2019.moniqa.org/program is currently being finalized. It will include speakers from Science and Innovation, from industry, public authorities, international organizations, law firms and food research institutions. Here we would like to give you a foretaste of what you may expect.

Speakers of Day 1: Food Integrity, Food Fraud Prevention, the Food Law

Richard Cantrill, MoniQA Past President and Chair of the IAM, Canada
Karen Everstine, Senior Manager, Scientific Affairs, Decernis, USA (invited)
Bert Popping, General Manager/Owner, FOCOS, Germany
Michael Walker, LGC, UK
Atef Idriss, CEO MEFOSA, Lebanon
Steven Gendel, Senior Science Manager – Foods, USP, USA
Ricardo Carvajal, Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C., USA
Glenford Jameson, Food Lawyer, G. S. Jameson & Company, Ontario, Canada
Christopher van Gundy, Partner at Keller & Heckman, USA
Cesare Varallo, Food Lawyer and Founder of foodlawlatest.com, Italy

Speakers of Day 2: Food Allergy and Food Allergen Management, Labelling and Analysis

Jupiter Young, Nestlé Nutrition, Nestlé Development Center Fremont, USA
Clare Mills, University of Manchester, UK
Melanie Downs, Food Allergy Research & Resource Program (FARRP), University of Nebraska, USA
Eric Garber, FDA, USA
Martin Chapman, Indoor Biotechnologies Inc, USA
Rakhi Panda, FDA, USA
Katherine Fiedler, FDA, USA
Anne Eischeid, FDA, USA
Weili Xiong, FDA, USA
Gill Holcombe and Michael Walker, LGC, UK
Roland Poms, MoniQA, Austria

 

Stay up-to-date! and see more program details being added at https://rockville2019.moniqa.org/program

 

We hope to see you in Rockville, MD, USA, 30 October–1 November 2019!

On behalf of the organizers

Dr. Bert Popping, MoniQA President, Germany
Dr. Richard Cantrill, MoniQA Past-President, Canada
Dr. Linda Monaci, MoniQA Vice President, Italy
Dr. Roland Poms, MoniQA Secretary General/CEO, Austria
Dr. Steven Gendel, Senior Director - Food Science, Food Chemical Codex, USP, USA
Dr. Cesare Varallo, Lawyer and General Manager of FoodLawLatest, Italy




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