Agenda
Hear global progress from countries
including The US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Norway, Austria, Brazil, Australia, New
Zealand and Japan.
Day One:
The big issues (Feb 1)
08:55 Chairman:
Dr. Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx,
UK
Government
09:00 FDA's Role in Foodborne
Disease and Cosmetic Emergencies Dr John P Sanders, Epidemiologist,
CFSAN,ECRS, Food and Drug Administration,
USA
- Background
- FDA's Mission
- Changes after 9/11 and the Bioterrorism Preparedness
Act of 2001
- Current and Future Challenges for FDA
Experience
of large users
09:30 DNA Traceability of
Pork from Plate to Farm
Dr John Webb, Director Genetics
and Science, Maple Leaf Foods Inc, Canada
The $6 billion Maple Leaf Foods is Canada’s
leading food processor, exporting to over 80 countries around the world.
- Importance of traceability in meat products - why
now?
- Why choose DNA as the method for tracing?
- How DNA traceability works - tracing to the mother
or father
- Who pays for DNA traceability, and what are the
real benefits to the industry?
- Traceability is only the first step in what will be
the widespread application of DNA technologies to improve product
quality and food safety
10:00 The WAWA Approach
to Food Traceability Jane Griffith, Director of Quality Assurance
and Food Safety, Wawa, Inc., USA
Wawa is one of the leading supermarket chains
in the US with over 550 stores and its own dairy
- Overview of Wawa Corporation - focusing on perishable
products
- Wawa's commitment to product quality and brand protection.
Product Traceability for the manufacturer's perspective
- Wawa Beverage Company- Products produced and shipped
to 550 stores and 950 wholesale accounts
- Traceability focus on ingredients and finished products
- Use of the AS/RS (automatic storage and retrieval
system) to manage traceability
10:30 Networking & refreshments
in exhibition area
Lessons
from four continents
11:00
RFID for Tracking Food and Livestock in East Asia
Chuck Wilson, Director of Information Division, Hitachi
America, USA
Hitachi is a $26 billion corporation
with 347,000 employees
- Progress with an ultra small Mu-Chip technology solution
- Developments in Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan
tracking both food and livestock
11:30 The Can-Trace Project
in Canada
Norm Cheesman, Can-Trace,
Canada
- Bringing the food sectors and the whole chain
together to build traceability standards
- Challenge of managing multiple stakeholders in an
essentially voluntary initiative
12:00 Automated Whole-Chain
Traceability - Now a Reality
Cristian Barcan, Project Manager - Traceability and Food Safety, BASF
Aktiengesellschaft, Germany
- Whole-chain traceability is the future
- Example: the TELOP-TRACE project in farmed salmon
(first electronic whole-chain traceable market segment)
- Reasons for whole-chain traceability
- Current BASF status implementing TraceTracker as
a solution for whole-chain traceability
- Next steps
12:30 Lunch and networking
13:30 The Brazilian Official
Livestock Certification System as an Issue for Cattle Traceability and the
Situation Concerning Food Traceability
Valeria Homem, Federal Fiscal, Ministry of Agriculture,
Brazil
- The need our society has for animal and public health,
in order to get high quality products, free of pathogen
- Cattle monitoring and animal identification being
the essential activities for the transparency of the whole bovine
productive chain
- Entire system's credibility from farm to slaughter
- The development of SISBOV (Brazilian System of Bovine
and Bubaline Identification and Origin Certification), the official
system envisioned in 2001 by the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture,
and the very good experience and results to date
- Situation concerning food traceability
14:00 RFID - Tracking, Tracing and Managing Sheep and Sheep Products in Australia
Professor James Rowe, the Australian
Sheep Industries Cooperative Research Centre, Australia
- The value of using
RFID for 'track-and-trace' in small livestock such as sheep is increased
by improved management efficiency
- Rapid improvement
of RFID technology is occurring in parallel with developments in computer-based
animal handling equipment. Put the two together and the enhanced functionality
is set to benefit production and the value chain
- This paper describes
practical details of automated RFID data collection in live animals
and in an abattoir environment
- A pilot project
to link animal production data with meat traceability aims to provide
the desired product authenticity as well as feedback for more efficient
production and processing.We are making good progress in building
the management systems that add value while ensuring safe food
- The 'e-$heep' story
provides updates on recent technical developments and new information
on the value case combining animal and meat traceability with more
profitable management systems.
14:30 Traceability Experience:
Real-world Learnings
William Pape, CEO,
AgInfoLink Global, US
- Primary customer drivers
- Solutions that work and those that don't
- Moving beyond compliance to "value traceability"
- What are the real-world "value traceability" costs
and benefits
15:00 Networking & refreshments
in exhibition area
15:30 Implementing
Traceability in the Production Environment: Lessons Learned
Jerry Horne, Solutions Key
Account Manager, Markem, USA/Europe
- Challenges
of production
- How to gain visibility into product flow
- Tracking versus tracing: creating downstream and upstream linkages
- Barcode or RFID? Which solution, where
- Benefits beyond regulatory compliance
16:00 Creating Value through Whole Chain
Traceability
Stein Onsrud, CEO, TraceTracker, USA/Norway
- Global Traceability Drivers and Challenges
- Business Benefits through Global Traceability
- Some examples of whole chain traceability projects
- What's the experience so far?
- Implementing Global Traceability Solutions - What
does it take to get started and start benefiting from a traceability
solution?
16:30 Challenges of Cargo Loss Prevention in the Food Industry
Ray Flemming, Director of Cargo Loss Prevention, Frozen Food Express Industries Inc
Frozen Food Express Industries, Inc. is the largest publicly-owned, temperature-controlled carrier of perishable goods in North America
- Introduction to Frozen Food Express
- How we see things today
- Future trends and challenges
17:00
Drinks Reception in exhibition area
Day Two:
Experiences and New Technology – best practice worldwide (Feb 2)
09:00 Chairman:
Dr. Charles R. Hurburgh, Jr., Professor, Agricultural and Biosystems
Engineering, Professor in Charge, Iowa
Grain Quality Initiative, USA
 |
The interests of Prof Hurburgh include the value
added to grain through quality specification and traceability. He
manages the ISU Grain Quality Research Laboratory and coordinates
the Iowa Grain Quality Initiative, an extension information program
created to support the development of value-added grains. |
09:30 Lessons from over 250
Case Studies of Radio Frequency Identification RFID used in the Food
Chain in 30 Countries
Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman IDTechEx UK
- RFID tagging food in restaurants, supermarkets, the
cold chain, food conveyances
- RFID tagging livestock and farming
- The main benefits, costs, frequencies, suppliers
etc that are emerging
- Successes and failures
- Experience of RFID combined with condition monitoring
on food and on livestock
- IDTechEx forecasts for adoption of RFID on food items,
food pallets/ cases and livestock 2005-2015 by number and dollar value
10:00 Documentation and Traceability as
a Part of an Integrated Solution for Farmers and Advisory Services
Walter Mayer, CEO, PROGIS Software
AG, Austria
10:30 Networking & refreshments
in exhibition area
11:00 Global SAW RFID Solutions for Food
Track and Traceability
Paul Hartmann, VP Engineering,
RFSAW,
USA
SAW-Based RFID (GST) with its long read range and other
features is a prime candidate for meeting specific important performance
requirements for item traceability in the food supply chain.
- Features include: Long read-range with low
power/transmit; automatic range and temperature determination;
immunity to gamma radiation; and the ability to read tags on
liquid-containing products and metal containers.
- This paper includes discussion of a range of
applications and results of demonstrations such as: reading truckloads
of fruit-bins entering a distribution center; reading case tags for
cans in the center of a pallet; and reading GST devices imbedded in
cattle ear tags at 20 meters.
11:30 Searching for The Optimal
Traceability Business Model (OTBM)
David Michael, Managing Director, Wondu
Business & Technology Services, Australia
- The optimal traceability business model and primacy
of the market and its end users
- Requirements for industry competitiveness and
competitive advantage of firms
- Requirements for regulatory support and voluntary
agreements.
- Requirements for functionality and consistent
performance.
- Application to new animal product industries in
Australia, a research project in progress for the Rural Industries
Research and Development Corporation (Australia).
12:00 Natural Randomness as a Fingerprint:
Using Nanotechnology to fight Counterfeiting and provide secure asset
tracking through the supply chain.
Mark McGlade, Director of Business Development, Ingenia Technology Limited, UK
- Introduction to Ingenia Technology authenticating packaging etc
- How its new Laser Surface Authentication system LSA
TM can rapidly analyse the surface of any item (paper, plastics metal or ceramics) and create a unique digital serial code without the need to tag or barcode
- The many benefits and applications for secure packaging of such a naturally-occurring ‘fingerprint’
12:30 Lunch and networking in exhibition
area
Different
DNA solutions
13:30 Using DNA for
Full Value Food Traceability
Dr.
Betsy Moran, Technical Marketing Manager, Business Development, BioScience,
Whatman Inc, USA
- Technologies
used in DNA analysis
- Uses of DNA
in Livestock Tracking
- How DNA can be used to track meat through processing
- Using DNA to safeguard current traceability practices
14:00 The Identification
of Animal Species in Food : An Example of the Application of the DNA
Chip Technology
Olivier Pasquier, Global Product Manager - Molecular Biology, bioMérieux
Industry, France/USA
- DNAchips revolution. The analysis of food by asking
open questions
- Traceability and authentification applications
- FoodExpert-ID : an Identity card for food
authenticity
Temperature
monitoring with I.D.
14:30 1 to 3 Penny Thermal, Transinformative Time and Temperature Barcodes
Catherine Goldsmith, Sr. Vice President
Public Relations & Governmental Affairs, SIRA
Technologies
- Industry and consumers partnering for safety and
profit
- Barcodes that use irreversible printing ink to sense
time and
temperature abuse
- Global monitoring and reporting through archival
barcodes
- Complete cold chain management for rapid gate-to-plate
delivery of safe
product and interdiction of time and/or temperature-abused product
- Two continent collaboration for break-through system
15:00
Networking & refreshments in exhibition area
15:15 Remote Asset Tracking,
Monitoring and Control Solutions for the Supply / Cold Chain
Axel Striefler, President, CEO,
Syscan International, Canada
- Today’s problems of transparency and accountability
within Supply / Cold Chain
- Applications, methods and types of tracking within
Supply / Cold Chain
- RFID – the answer?
- Integrated web-based control solutions using RFID
and M2M technology
- Creating real value for all channel partners in
form of idealized risk mitigation and profitability
Livestock
15:45 Livestock Traceability
in New Zealand
Sharl Liebergreen, Consultant, Abacus Biotech,
New Zealand
Dr Peter Speck, Business Development Manager,
PrimaryLink Technologies PTY Ltd, Australia
- Brief on Abacus Biotech Ltd
- History of traceability in NZ - traceability being
a secondary driver
- The role of distributed data in traceability
- When is a standard a standard
16:15 Biometric Identification
of Livestock to Support Contract and Regulatory Requirements for Traceability
Dr Bruce L. Golden, CEO, Optibrand
Ltd, LLC, USA
- The need for biometric identification of food
animals in traceability programs
- Performance of biometric identification methods
- Costs and benefits of retinal identification
combined with GPS
- Current applications of retinal identification
around the world
16:45 Conference
end
|
