Assessing Food Safety Regulations: Agenda

Date

May 23, 2001

Event Series

Wednesday, May 23, 2001

*Day 1*		How Do We Currently Allocate Food Safety Resources In Relation to Risk?

7:30-8:30 a.m.		Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:30-8:40 a.m.		Welcome Paul Portney (President, Resources For the Future)

8:40-9:00 a.m.		Conference Purpose and Overview Mike Taylor (Resources for the Future)

9:00-9:30 a.m.		Opening Remarks Bernard A. Schwetz (Acting Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration)Thomas J. Billy (Administrator, Food Safety and Inspection Service)

9:30-10:00 a.m.		Current Regulatory Structure Richard Merrill (University of Virginia School of Law)

10:00-10:15 a.m.		Question and Answer

10:15-10:30 a.m.		BREAK

10:30-11:30 a.m.		Potential Health Hazards in the Food Supply Microbial/Biological Hazards Robert Tauxe (National Center for Infectious Disease, Centers for Disease Control) Chemical and Other Hazards Penny Fenner-Crisp (Risk Science Institute, International Life Sciences Institute)

11:30 a.m.- 12:00		Questions and Answers

12:00-1:00 p.m.		LUNCH

1:00-1:30 p.m.		Government Expenditures on Food Safety Regulation Lawrence Dyckman (Director, Food and Agriculture Issues, Government Accounting Office) See a GAO report on food safety expenditures.

1:30-2:00 p.m.		The Cost of Industry Compliance Laurian Unnevehr (College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Helen Jensen (Department of Economics, Iowa State University)

2:00-2:15 p.m.		Questions and Answers

2:15-2:45 p.m.		How People Value Food Safety Elise Golan and others (USDA Economic Research Service)

2:45-3:00 p.m.		Questions and Answers

3:00-3:15 p.m.		BREAK

3:15-4:15 p.m.		Opportunities for More Effective Risk Reduction Glenn Morris (University of Maryland Medical School) Julie Caswell (University of Massachusetts)

4:15 - 4:45 p.m.		Panel Discussion Steve Crutchfield (USDA Economic Research Service) Caroline Smith DeWaal (Center for Science in the Public Interest) Tony Hepton (Dole Food Company, Inc.)

4:45-5:15 p.m.		Open Discussion

5:15-5:30 p.m.		Summary and Closing Mike Taylor (Resources for the Future)

5:30-6:30 p.m.		Reception

Thursday, May 24
*Day 2*		*Improving Methods to Inform Risk-Based Priority Setting*

8:00-8:45 a.m.		Registration & Continental Breakfast

9:00-9:15 a.m.		Welcome and Overview of Day 2 Sandra Hoffmann (Resources for the Future) The Importance of Risk-Based Approaches to Priority Setting Mike Taylor (Resources for the Future)

I. Risk Assessment Issues Affecting Risk-Based Priority Setting
9:15-9:55 a.m.		The State of Risk Assessment Methodology Miccrobial Risk Assessment Robert Buchanan (Food and Drug Administration) Chemical and Biological Risk Assessment Harold Zenick (Environmental Protection Agency)

9:55-10:15 a.m.		Discussants: Joseph Rodricks (Environ International Corporation) I. Kaye Wachsmuth (Food Safety and Inspection Service)

10:15-10:30 a.m.		BREAK

II. Informing Risk-Based Priority Setting: Current Methods and Research Needs
10:30-11:00 a.m.		Comparative Risk Assessment Paul Fischbeck (The Environmental Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)

11:00-11:20 a.m.		Discussants: Donald Barnes (Environmental Protection Agency) Stuart Sessions (Environomics)

11:20-11:50 a.m.		General Discussion

12:00-1:00 p.m.		LUNCH

1:00-1:30 p.m.		Using Quality-Adjusted Life Years in the Evaluation of Food Safety Priorities Milton Weinstein (Harvard Center for Risk Analysis)

1:30-1:50 p.m.		Discussants: Richard Williams (Food and Drug Administration) Anne Haddix (Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University)

1:50-2:20 p.m.		General Discussion

2:20-2:35 p.m.		BREAK

2:35-3:05 p.m.		Willingness to Pay Measures Jim Hammitt (Harvard Center for Risk Analysis)

3:05-3:25 p.m.		Discussants: Maureen Cropper (College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Maryland and World Bank) Kerry Smith (College of Agriculture and Resource Economics, North Carolina State University)

3:25-3:55 p.m.		General Discussion

III. Where Do We Go from Here?
3:55-4:25 p.m.		Round Table Discussion (presenters and discussants) Moderator: Jerry Gillespie (Joint Institute for Food Safety Research)

4:25-4:55 p.m.		General Discussion

4:55-5:10 p.m.		Summary of the Day Sandra Hoffmann (Resources for the Future)

Assessing Food Safety Regulations: Agenda

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