The 10 th annual PulseNet Update meeting will
be held April 4-6, 2006, at the
Radisson Hotel Miami in Miami, Florida. The host
for this meeting will be the Florida Department
of Health, represented by the Bureau
of Laboratories in Jacksonville and the Branch Laboratory
in Tampa. Opening events may take place
on the evening of Monday, April 3.
Participation is open to laboratory personnel of
state health departments (and county and city health
departments, where appropriate) that are part of
the PulseNet Network. Foodborne epidemiologists
who are interested in utilizing PulseNet data may
want to accompany their laboratory counterparts.
PulseNet participants from the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture/Food
Safety and Inspection Service, and public health
and food safety officials associated with PulseNet
International are also invited to attend. Laboratory
personnel from other International Public Health
Agencies who are interested in learning more about
PulseNet or participating in PulseNet are invited
to attend at their own expense.
Available ELC or EIP funding is expected to be
used to travel PulseNet laboratorians to this meeting.
Additional ELC or EIP funds may be used to travel
foodborne epidemiologists to this meeting, if deemed
appropriate by the state. |
