ICMSF Sampling Workshop
17 to 18 April 2018, China
ICMSF experts Leon Gorris, Tom Ross and Marcel Zwietering ran a hands-on workshop in Beijing, China on useful microbiological sampling and testing for food safety management.
Seventy Chinese food safety professionals from government, industry and academia attended the workshop. The session was designed to give participants a deep and hand-on understanding of useful microbiological sampling and testing, with specific attention to the underlying statistics, sampling plan performance and development and interpretation of microbiological criteria.
As part of their training resources, all participants received a signed copy of ICMSF’s Microorganisms in Foods 8: Use of Data for Assessing Process Control and Product Acceptance translated into Chinese through the effort of a team led by former ICMSF member Xiumei Liu.
According to Dr Wang Jun (Director of Division 2 of Food Safety Standards, China National Centre for Food Safety Risk Assessment) the workshop was an important contribution to the further strengthening of the professional quality of China’s food safety work by giving the Chinese professionals a solid understanding of the utility of microbiological food safety testing.
The workshop was a joint effort of several organisations that strive to advance food capability building in China and around the globe. It was organised by the ICMSF in conjunction with the Chinese Institute of Food Science and Technology and the International Union for Food Science and Technology, co-organised by the Unilever China Consumer Products Safety Collaboration Center in Shanghai and sponsored by the Walmart Food Safety Collaboration Center in Beijing.