Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain, November 26-29, 2024

PURPOSE

To broaden and spread the theoretical and practical knowledge about innovative methods for rapid detection, enumeration, isolation and identification of foodborne and waterborne microorganisms and their metabolites.

Designed for: directors and technicians of industries, consultancies, and laboratories of food and feed and other sectors (microbiological, biotechnological, clinical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, chemical, environmental, etc.); inspectors and other administration staff; university professors and technical staff, graduate and postgraduate students; people from other research centres; etc.

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Lecturers and lectures:

• Dr. José Juan Rodríguez Jerez (UAB): Overview on rapid methods, automation and miniaturization in microbiology
• Dr. Armand Sánchez Bonastre (UAB): Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and massive genome sequencing applied to food safety
• Mr. Alfredo Corujo Fernández (Trouw Nutrition España): Implementation of a flexible and rapid molecular tool for Salmonella spp. control programme in aviculture
• Dr. Jéssica Gil Serna (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Microorganisms as allies for mycotoxin control in foods
• Food safety culture. Are you leaving it to chance? Come play the wheel of fortune!:
  • Ms. Sara García-Gurtubay (Compliance&Values)
  • Mr. Jon Basagoiti Azpitarte (Imagining Management Systems)
• Ms. Cristina Costa Expósito (Enginyeria i Consultoria Costa): Third-country requirements for meat and meat products export: microbiological criteria, drug residues, CCP and cleaning management
• Dr. Julio César Lamela Pérez (JL Consultorías / Conaprole): Cross-contamination in the food industry. Practical cases

3-day laboratory sessions:

• sample preparation and plating 
• rapid viable cell count methods 
• environmental control 
• chromogenic culture media 
• miniaturization 
• diagnostic kits 
• methods based on ATP – bioluminescence, colorimetry, and others
• immunological detection methods (ELFA, latex agglutination, lateral immunomigration, immunoprecipitation) 

Demonstrations:

• Use of internet for applications of predictive microbiology (Barcelona Public Health Agency)
• Make rapid and effective decisions: guide for microorganisms analysis by PCR (Condalab)
• Criteria for environmental control plan design in food industry (AENOR)
• Microbiological risks in HACCP systems? At last, identify them properly at your company! (Imagining Management Systems)

And also:

• 2 open discussions (Food safety culture / Instrumentation, world trade trends, other current topics)
• Exhibition from 12 microbiology companies: Avantor (VWR International Eurolab), Condalab, Grupo Deltalab, Illumina Productos España, Interscience, LGC Standards, MicroPlanet Laboratorios, Neogen / Bioser, Scharlab, Sysmex España, Thermo Fisher Diagnostics, Werfen

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