July 24, 2001

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in collaboration with the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), is hosting the 2nd Regional Dairy Food Safety Conference for Central America. This training will be held the week of August 6-10, 2001 at the Hotel Radisson Europa in San Jose, Costa Rica. The objective of this training conference is to provide information on the safe sanitation and processing practices for production of dairy products.

This training will include topics such as brief overview of U.S. milk control programs; Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP's) in cheese manufacturing; aseptic processing and packaging systems; HACCP principles and auditing systems; applications in dairy processing including a pilot project FDA conducted related to cheese manufacturing; microbes of concerns in the dairy industry; U.S. FDA import regulations and requirements; milk plant sanitation practices; sanitary design of processing equipment; vat and HTST milk pasteurization and auxiliary pasteurization equipment; filing and packaging of milk and dairy products; cooling and dairy storage of milk; cultured dairy products and advanced processing systems such as UHT and extended shelf life.

The target audience is senior regulatory officials, academia and dairy industry representatives for Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama) and the Dominican Republic.

A copy of the FY-2001 CFSAN Program Priorities Accomplishments is available on the CFSAN Internet site at http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/cfsan701.html. CFSAN has completed 53 "A" list goals. Most notable among these are: Final rules on egg safety and juice safety; draft risk assessments on Listeria monocytogenes and Vibrio paraheamolyticus; proposals on biotechnology premarket notification and voluntary labeling; a reorganization of our Office of Premarket Approval into a new Office of Food Additive Safety; and recent activities related to BSE prevention, StarLink corn and food allergens.

Food Safety Initiative Staff E-mail: chall@cfsan.fda.gov	Office Number: (202) 260-8920 · FAX (202) 260-9653 CFSAN Web site: http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/

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