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Seminars


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Objective: To bring together people from the Guelph Food Safety Network and others who are interested in the risk management approach to food quality and safety to learn, educate, illuminate, and discuss issues of common interest and broaden networks.

Partners:


2024

October 30th, 2024

8h00 AM – 12h30 PM

GFSS 21st Annual Symposium

Everything Old is New Again

OMAFRA Building, 1 Stone Road W, Guelph, ON, Canada


March 27th, 2024

Guelph Food Safety Seminars (GFSS) Symposium

Botulism in Canada

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Speaker:
Richard Harris, PhD, Laboratory Technician
Botulism Reference Service for Canada, Bureau of Microbial Hazards, Health Canada


2023

September 2023

Guelph Food Safety Seminar (GFSS)

Sensitivity and feasibility of DNA-based detection of Salmonella in poultry production


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June 2023

Guelph Food Safety Seminar (GFSS)

Anatomy of an Investigation: International Women’s Day Luncheon Enteric Outbreak 

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2022

November 2022

19th annual Guelph Food Safety Seminars (GFSS) Symposium


Inflation: The New Foodborne Illness?  


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The 19th GFSS Symposium Inflation: The New Foodborne Illness? was a great success! Thanks again to our speakers and GFSS Organizing Committee. If you weren’t able to attend, all the sessions were recorded. Click on the session’s name to be directed to the recording.

Session 1: At what cost? Food safety and rising prices

Session 2: Waste Not; Want Not: Food Diversion at Its Finest

Session 3: Alternative proteins – Are we there yet?

Session 4: How to Stretch your Food Dollar Safely – Q&A Session


The Guelph Food Safety Seminars (GFSS) series and annual symposium began in 2004 to provide a forum in which to share timely and pertinent food safety topics. GFSS is a partnership which includes:

  • the University of Guelph (Canadian Research Institute for Food Safety/Department of Food Science)
  • Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
  • Canadian Food Inspection Agency
  • Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors – Ontario Branch
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Health Canada, NSF International
  • Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs