Agenda - Day 2

• Start your day off right and make connections with food safety regulators and industry leaders.
• Interact with your peers, discuss best practices, and share innovative strategies.
• Gather essential content and get exclusive offers at exhibit booths.

Adopt best practices in today’s sessions so you can master practical solutions and plan for the future.

On July 20, 2022, Health Canada published amendments to the Food and Drug Regulations (“FDR”) creating a requirement for prepackaged foods whose contents meet or exceed certain thresholds of saturated fat, sodium and/or sugars to include a symbol on the front label of their packages. Your manufacturing business has until December 31, 2025 to change labels on prepackaged foods to comply with the new requirements. Develop your action plan with Health Canada’s recommendations to:

• Implement guidance on the FOP nutrition symbol.
• Review the conditions of use for various nutrient content claims.
• Identify exemptions and prohibitions.
• Apply other amendments and future labelling requirements.

Address the unique challenges posed by FOP regulatory changes to achieve compliance and sustainability for your business.

For many companies, and especially those that have not previously faced compliance with federal standards, meeting the new traceability requirements can seem daunting. Digital technology will transform your supply chain, making documentation much more efficient, transparent and effective in the event of a recall. Walk away with an action plan to:

• Identify how digital technology can be applied within your organization
• Determine the practical impact on your documentation system
• Strengthen your relationship with your suppliers and customers

Master the success factors to ensure your company achieves the new standards for traceability.

Closing the loop on linear consumption models is good for business as well as the planet, but is only achievable through collaborative effort within and beyond consumer value chains. Where can collaboration deliver real change for your business? What are the potential challenges to overcome the action to scale up? Achieve a step-by-step action plan to:

• Reduce single use plastics, waste and food miles
• Integrate new approaches to water conservation
• Adopt innovative ingredients
• Form partnerships and work collaboratively

Transform your sustainability strategy to stimulate economic growth and plan for the future.

Choose a round table discussion that focuses on a key niche area for you.  Meet and exchange ideas and experiences with like-minded colleagues, and take away tried and tested, practical tips from your peers on a topic of your choosing:

1. Preventing and managing food recalls
2. Navigating new regulations and identifying best practice
3. Managing supply chain risks and ensuring food safety in a globalized market
4. Building a culture of food safety
5. Identifying and combatting food fraud
6. Compliance with future environmental legislation on food safety

• Engage with conference speakers and fellow attendees.
• Secure new business contacts and discuss crucial developments in food safety.
• Experience live demos and test drive new technology.

Recent amendments to the Food and Drug Regulations created a regulatory framework for supplemented foods that outlines detailed conditions for the use of supplemental ingredients in food. These conditions will protect the health and safety of Canadians, while providing a predictable regulatory environment for industry. Source practical tips to:

• Introduce the new regulations and background
• Implement the new regulations
• Identify pros, cons, and pitfalls to avoid

Create your plan of action with integrating the amended regulations to increase revenue.

Food Processors’s Food Safety programs have deviation programs including waste management services to facilitate product disposal but often do not have product recovery service providers.  Sending suspect foreign material finished foods costs the Canadian food industry millions in added operating expense and damages food security and the environment.  In JP Perreault’s talk, you’ll learn about the implications to current practices and how implementing a recovery service provider in your food safety deviation plan will benefit your company and help protect the environment and promote food security.

• Understand the negative impacts in current practices in dealing with suspect foreign material contaminated products
• Learn how the latest x-ray inspection technology is bending the rules of physics allowing the inspection of foreign materials never-before-detectable
• Learn how a recovery service provider works and how to access programs to implement in your own food safety program deviation plans.

• Expand your network and make connections that last beyond these two days.
• Visit the exhibitor hall and pose your toughest questions to leading solution providers.
• Enjoy great food and service while engaging with your food safety colleagues.

• Outlining the addition of sesame in USA as a major food allergen and the government’s increased focus/guidance on allergen labeling
• Overview of current USA and Canada allergens and considering what else may join the list in the future
• Detailing internationally listed allergens, specifically in: Australia/New Zealand, Japan, EU, Latin America countries, Taiwan and Russia
• Examining how international definitions of gluten-free may vary in different countries

‘Food Safety’ may be the name of a department, but the whole organization plays a part. Lead your company in ensuring a safety-oriented culture and cement support from both senior management and the plant. Develop a blueprint to:

• Change thinking to embrace a culture of sanitation.
• Incorporate a different approach that the most successful companies have embraced as the foundation of their food safety culture
• Change behavior, change food safety: Behavior-based food safety management system
• Reduce the signs and symptoms of a failed Food Safety Management System (FSMS)
• Customize learnings from real examples of success based on a true food safety culture

Master success and establish your own culture of food safety to improve security and boost productivity.

Cannabis products were made legal for the adult use sector in Canada in 2018 and edibles and novel cannabis derived products are now established in the Canadian market. In the US a different approach was taken, with cannabis remaining federally illegal, and some states legalizing it either medically or for recreational use. ‘Hemp” derived cannabinoids, CBD products and related innovations are different yet again, with their rapidly evolving methods of derivation and compounding often outpacing regulatory agency’s ability to provide leading guidance.

• Current regulatory status and guidance within the US.
• What are the needs and how can we ensure safe products in various application sectors: food, supplements, and pharma.
• Important evolutionary steps for regulatory agencies, how can our industry help.
• What is outlook for regulatory progress?

Extricate key nuggets of guidance in the CBD regulatory environment

• Engage with conference speakers and fellow attendees.
• Secure new business contacts and discuss crucial developments in food safety.
• Experience live demos and test drive new technology.

Learn about the newest guidance developed by and for the food industry in Canada:

• Best practices for allergen management
• Risk-based approach to precautionary allergen labelling (PAL)
• Building trust with consumers with food allergy
• Improve your food safety strategy with an effective risk-based approach to allergen management

With better detection come more outbreaks.  Combine approaches to quickly identify the source of a foodborne outbreak and implement measures to control its spread.  Approaches for review in the keynote include:

• Microbial testing for the presence of harmful bacteria, viruses, or parasites.
• Epidemiological investigation to identify patterns of illness and identify common sources of exposure.
• Traceback investigation to pinpoint where contamination may have occurred.
• Whole genome sequencing: This involves sequencing the DNA of pathogens isolated from food, food surfaces, or sick individuals to identify specific strains and track their spread.

Quickly identify and respond to foodborne outbreaks and prevent the spread of illness.

Review the key solutions and takeaways from the conference. Source a summary of action points to implement in your work.