"Emerging Issues in Food and Water Safety: Identifying and Meeting the Challenges of the Next Millennium" is the theme for the annual symposium to be presented Nov. 3-4 by Cornell's Institute for Comparative and Environmental Toxicology (ICET).
Reports at the symposium at the Clarion University Hotel and Conference Center in Ithaca range from water quality in municipal watersheds to antibiotic residues in food.
"We will focus on current topics in microbial, biological and chemical contamination of food and water and how that information can be used to plan for a safer future," said Kathryn J. Boor, assistant professor of food science at Cornell and one of the symposium organizers. "We expect about 200 representatives of industry, regulatory agencies and educational institutions."
The symposium by ICET, a program of the Cornell Center for the Environment, is presented in cooperation with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Department of Food Science at Cornell. Support is provided by Texaco Inc. and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. through their membership in the Cornell University Program in Comparative and Environmental Toxicology (CUPCET), a corporate affiliate education program of ICET.
The symposium features three plenary sessions and three discussion sessions over two days and a Tuesday evening dinner with a keynote speaker, Carole Bisogni, associate professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell.
Complete schedule and registration information is available from ICET at 255-8008 or by visiting the web site http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/icet.
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