Secretary Locke Meeting with Food Industry Representatives
Date: May 18, 2011
Secretary Locke met with food industry delegates including GMA President and CEO Pamela Bailey, and senior-level staff from Abbott Laboratories, Cargill, Wal-Mart, and C&M International. Industry emphasized the benefits of PTIN activities in facilitating trade, especially with respect to building laboratory capacity to ensure testing with appropriate methods and proper test procedures.
UPCOMING EVENTS
- May 15-16, 2023, APEC Food Safety Cooperation Forum (FSCF) PTIN Workshop on Risk Communication Related to Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs), Detroit, Michigan
- May 17, 2023 FSCF PTIN Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) and Laboratory Capacity Building of Environmental Testing for Foodborne Pathogens Workshop, Detroit, Michigan
- May 18, 2023 FSCF Public Private Innovation Dialogue, Detroit, Michigan
- May 19 2023, FSCF Conference, Detroit, Michigan
RECENT EVENTS
- FSCF PTIN Pesticide MRL Harmonization: A Trade Facilitative Approach to MRL Compliance, December 16-17, 2020, Virtual
- FSCF PTIN Success Stories from FSCF Export Certificate Reductions, Expected February 2021, Virtual
- FSCF PTIN Sanitary Phytosanitary (SPS) Document Digitalization, What Industry and Government Need: Three Seminars to Collect Perspectives on E-Certification in the Past and Future, Expected Spring 2021, Virtual
- FSCF PTIN Whole Genome Sequencing: Laboratory Capacity Building for Environmental Food Safety Testing Workstream
- Virtual Awareness Webinars in early 2021,
- How WGS has revolutionized food safety: from environmental sampling to foodborne disease prevention, response, and mitigation, May 2021, Virtual
- Sub-Regional In-Lab Trainings, July 2021-October 2022,
- Teach-Forward by Training Participants, September 2021-December 2022
- Workshop for Food Safety Experts and Policymakers, presentations by ToTs, May 2023
- Food Safety Cooperation Forum, 2021, Virtual
- FSCF Partnership Training Institute Network Steering Group, 2021, Virtual
Virtual FSCF Framework on Risk Communication, Workshop 2
December 2-3, 2020
Virtual
Virtual FSCF Framework on Risk Communication, Workshop 1
July 24, 2020
Virtual
