Oxoid is offering free places at the Oxoid Food Seminar Day, which is provided by Thermo Fisher Scientific as a service to those working in the food-safety field.
It will be held on Monday 12 October 2009 at the Campden BRI, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire.
The agenda for the event is as follows: Prof Chris Griffith - Do food handlers implement the food hygiene practices they know?; Janet Corry (Bristol University) - Study on Campylobacter in broiler-chicken populations; Helen Arrowsmith (Campden BRI) - The importance of food-allergen testing; Dr Melody Greenwood (Microtech services (Wessex) and Chair of the BSI AW/009 Microbiology Committee) - Update on international microbiology methods; Pauline Kalkman (Microval) - The Microval method validation process and update on the harmonisation of the Microval and AOAC; Wilma Jacobs-Reitsma (RIKILT Institute of Food Safety) - The role of an expert laboratory for Microval.
