2021 Salmonella Symposium via Healthy People 2030

1:00 – 1:05 Welcome and Introductions – Ernest Julian 

1:05 – 1:15 Overview of the draft charge – need to focus so scope is manageable – Denise Eblen, FSIS 

Setting the Stage

1:15 – 1:45 Consumption of poultry is a major way people get Salmonella infections – Patricia Griffin, CDC – Download PDF

1:45 – 2:00 Salmonella associated with poultry meat – overview – Kis Robertson Hale, FSIS 

Prevention/ Intervention strategies

2:00 – 2:15 Vaccine approvals – Connie Schmellik Sandage and Matt Erdman, APHIS

2:15 – 2:30 European experience with controlling Salmonella – Kris De Smet, European Commission

2:30 – 2:45 Pre-harvest strategies to control Salmonella – overview – Kim Cook, ARS 

2:45 – 3:00 Industry experience with vaccination/ other pre-harvest tools to control Salmonella in poultry – Bob O’Connor, Foster Farms

3:00 – 3:15 Animal feed as a source of Salmonella – William Flynn, FDA CVM

3:15 – 3:30 Post-harvest interventions, e.g., bacteriophage, irradiation, organic acids, etc. – Ashley Peterson 

3:30 – 3:45 Break

Detection methods 

3:30 – 3:45 WGS to identify virulence factors? What data do we have now to inform priority serotypes? – Martin Wiedmann, Cornell 

3:45 – 4:00 Enumeration methods for Salmonella – Dayna Harhay, ARS 

Education/ communication strategies

4:00 – 4:15 Effective ways to communicate best practices that result in behavior change – Benjamin Chapman, NC State. 

4:15 – 4:30 Incentivizing stakeholders to adopt best practices (industry, retail, consumers) – Sandra Hoffman and Mike Ollinger, ERS

4:30 – 4:45 Enterprise risk management – financial risk – Melanie Neumann, Neumann Risk Services.  

4:45 – 5:00 Roundtable discussion/ revise and focus the charge – Ernest Julian and Denise Eblen