AOAC 2017 Annual Meeting Preliminary Program

The Foodomics Pocketknife: Select your Fit for Purpose Tool Omic-based-technologies have shown their capacity for generating robust data, offering new vision on understanding food safety issues and new tools for routine testing. They are perceived as new ways to characterize the isolates. The power of these methods needs to be controlled in order most of the FBO can benefit from them, and get a clearer understanding of their applications. Regulators are investigating the use of these technologies in order to define risk profile associated to food-borne pathogens, conduct outbreak investigations, and strengthen regulation. This symposium aims to set a few things straight. Omic analyses are after all just tools like a novel pocketknife for microbiologists. As always, you just have to select your fit for purpose tool…stop using a steamroller to crack a nut! A lesson from history will be drawn, tracing the evolution of the analytical sciences in food microbiology[i]. Advanced technologies always start with strain characterization before moving to more complex analyses. It was the case for biochemical analyses, molecular methods … This transition is ongoing for the Omics-technologies. Omic-analyses require harmonization/standardization in order to use bioinformatics platforms, to process in routine testing, to share and compare data such as done within PulseNet and MicrobeNet. Ongoing harmonized international standardization schemes with available databases set under quality assurance programs will be presented. Regulation expectation regarding method assessment will be emphasized; key studies will follow, showing the bottom-up approach with Omics-data to provide tools for routine testing with short time-to- result, providing go/no go data for decision makers. CO-CHAIR: Daniele Sohier, Bruker Daltonics CO-CHAIR: Patrice Arbault, Nexidia • Daniele Sohier, Bruker Daltonics Unlocking Adaptation of Routine Testing under Foodomics Evolutionary Pressure: Just Keep it Balanced! • John McQuiston, MicrobeNet Harmonization of Omics-Based Routine Methods and Database: Make it Easy and Fully under Control • Erin Crowley, Q Laboratories, Inc. Never Forget the Needs and the True Goal in Routine Testing 1:00 PM – 4:30 PM TDLM Workshop: Updates on Food Safety Modernization Act and ISO/IEC 17025 Accreditation Laboratory accreditation was mandated by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) for laboratories analyzing samples required by FSMA. The FDA is working to develop regulations for implementing these new requirements. Laboratory testing is an important component of several FSMA regulations. This session plans to have an update from FDA on the FSMA Laboratory Accreditation rule, including an update on the Laboratory Model Standards. The importance of ISO/IEC 17025 laboratory accreditation will be discussed, along with the steps to begin the journey to

accreditation. A new version of ISO/IEC 17025 should be coming out in 2017, and we hope to provide updates on the changes and the effect on those laboratories already accredited as well as those seeking accreditation. In addition, updates on the Partnership for Food Protection Laboratory Science’s Food and Feed Laboratories Best Practices will be provided. These topics will provide the information needed to proceed with implementation of the various requirements along with learning best practices to facilitate acceptance and consistent quality of analytical data, improve efficiencies, and support the testing of food imports and domestic food testing. CO-CHAIR: Yvonne Salfinger, Association of Public Health Laboratories CO-CHAIR: Ruiqing Pamboukian, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Office of Regulatory Affairs • Cynthia Mangione, NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets Updates on the Partnership for Food Protection Laboratory Science’s Food and Feed Laboratories Best Practices • Jane Weitzel, Consultant Crosswalk between ISO 17025:2005 and the Revision • Ruiqing Pamboukian, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Office of Regulatory Affairs Updates on FSMA Laboratory Accreditation, including Laboratory Model Standards and Progress toward Promoting National Standards, including Accreditation for Food and Feed Regulatory Laboratories 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Advances in Regulatory Science for Mycotoxins in Agricultural and Food Safety Mycotoxins are toxic metabolites generated by various fungal species, which can grow on agricultural commodities and foods. This diversity of mycotoxins and fungi poses a great challenge for controlling mycotoxin contamination in food and feed chains. In the furtherance of public

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