Evidence and Enforcement in Food Safety: Preparing for a successful case

The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health is holding a one-day conference will focus on the implications of the latest developments in food microbiology as well as understanding the consequences of these developments for business and litigation.

By attending, you will be updated on the criteria affecting the microbiological safety and quality of food including legislation impacts. You will also be able to make more informed judgments of the risks of food contamination, and also feel confident in investigating food contamination cases.

Following on from the successful 'Enforcement and Microbiology' conference in December 2009, this conference will also update and further enlighten those responsible for strategic management and enforcement of food safety.

Selected topic: Understand how criminal corporate manslaughter legislation can be used in cases of food poisoning outbreaks, Learn lessons from the investigation and enforcement of a large prison outbreak of Salmonella, and Understand what makes a case fail in terms of evidence gathering, storage and presentation in both the criminal and civil courts

This conference is designed for EHPs, Environmental Health Technicians, Public Health Microbiologists, Strategic Risk Managers, Food Safety Consultants and all other Food Safety Professionals

More information can be found at http://www.cieh.org/events/evidence_and_enforcement_in_food_safety.html