Investigation and Control of Microorganisms in Foods

A Short Course on the Investigation and Control of Microorganisms in Foods and Food Processing Environments will be held on October 16-17, 2012 at the Regional Learning Alliance of Cranberry Woods, in Cranberry Township, PA.  This course will feature speakers from Microbac Laboratories, Inc. as well as Dr. Jeffrey L. Kornacki from Kornacki Microbiology Solutions, Inc.

Attend this course and learn how to...

• Control pathogens in your processing facility
• Investigate potential sources of microbiological contamination to your product
• Develop science-based sampling plans for your ingredients and product
• Sharpen decision-making skills based on analysis of information
• Improve ability to meet or exceed customer specifications
• Provide documentation to verify a HACCP program
• Validate processes for regulatory compliance
• Establish microbiological criteria

Course Outline - Investigation and Control of Microorganisms in Foods and Food Processing Environments

Registration Information

$525 pp if registered BEFORE 9/28/2012
$600 pp if registered AFTER 9/28/2012
Discounts for Students and Government employees may apply.

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Program Content
Brad Stawick, Director of Microbiology
brad.stawick@microbac.com

Registration Information
Lisa Richmond, ph: 757-868-4072
lisa.richmond@microbac.com

Course Outline

Continental Breakfast and Lunch to be provided both days

Topics to include:

•  FSMA and Implications for Microbiological Testing in Your Facility, Brad Stawick, Microbac Laboratories, Inc.
•  General Principles of Microbiology: Factors Which Influence the Growth, Survival, and Death of Microorganisms, Jeffrey L. Kornacki, KMS
•  How Microorganisms Become Established in Factory Environments: How They Evade HACCP and Other Quality Assurance Plans, Jeffrey L. Kornacki, KMS
•  Sampling the Environment and Equipment, Jeffrey L. Kornacki, KMS
•  Presentation or demonstration of selected hygienic indicator assays and the advantages and disadvantages of various approaches as applied with inplant vs. external laboratories, Microbac Laboratories, Inc.
•  Microbial Control: Where and How Raw Ingredient and Finished Product Testing Fit into the Big Picture – An  Understanding of Microbial Sampling Criteria, Jeffrey L. Kornacki, KMS
•  Factors to Consider in the Selection of an Outside Laboratory, Brad Stawick, Microbac Laboratories, Inc.
•  Basic Understandings of Statistical Process Control
•  Molecular Subtyping Approaches – Pros and Cons of Various Approaches, Microbac Laboratories, Inc.
•  In-Factory Investigation and Sampling, Jeffrey L. Kornacki, KMS
•  Presumptuous Assumptions in Microbiological Food Safety Assessment, Jeffrey L. Kornacki, KMS
•  Final Group Exercise with Jeffrey L. Kornacki, KMS

 

Meet the Expert Microbiologist


Dr. Jeffrey Kornacki has over 25 years of experience in professional food safety microbiology. He obtained his BS in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin- Madison in 1977. His MS and Ph.D. degrees in Food Science (emphasis on food microbiology), from the same institution, focused on resolving practical food safety concerns in the industry. After working in Product Development, he subsequently spent more than a decade assisting hundreds of food production facilities with microbiological troubleshooting;
performing applied food safety research; serving in laboratory management roles; and providing technical writing and editing for a commercial Laboratory.  He has assisted a number of companies in the midst of FDA and USDA product recalls and was Assistant Professor, Center for Food Safety and Department of Food Science at the University of Georgia’s Griffin campus. Dr. Kornacki has researched the impact of organic matter on the survival of microbes on a variety of industrial surfaces, developed pathogen and surrogate organism test methods, validated  harmless thermal surrogate organisms for in-factory CCP validation, investigated the survival of Cronobacter spp. (Enterobacter sakazakii) in infant formula and the role of airborne microbes to food and food factory environmental contamination.   He has published a wide variety of other food microbiology topics, including his recent book, Principles of Microbiological Troubleshooting in the Industrial Food Processing Environment, and is presently co-editing and co-authoring a book on the microbiological safety of dry foods and spices. Dr. Kornacki has lectured widely on microbiological control in food environments and statistical sampling of foods. He is currently the President and Senior Technical Director of Kornacki Microbiology Solutions, Inc. and is adjunct faculty in the University of Georgia’s Department of Food Science.  Dr. Kornacki was recipient of IAFP’s 2010, “Sanitarian Award” and the Wisconsin Laboratory Association’s “Laboratorian of the Year” award.

 

Regional Learning Alliance of Cranberry Woods

































 

850 Cranberry Woods Drive, Cranberry Township, PA 16066

Directions to the Regional Learning Alliance of Cranberry Woods

From Pittsburgh and South

•  Take Interstate 79 North to Exit 78 - Route 228 -Cranberry/Mars
•  Turn right onto Route 228 East
•  At the first traffic light, turn right onto Cranberry Woods Drive (the Marriott Hotel will be on the right)
•  Follow Cranberry Woods Drive to the first stop sign
•  Continue straight through the stop sign. In 100 yards turn right (no street sign). The MSA building will be on your left
•  Follow drive straight ahead for 250 yards to the entrance to the RLA

From Erie and North

•  Take Interstate 79 South to Exit 78 - Route 228 - Cranberry/Mars
•  Turn left onto Route 228 East
•  At the second traffic light, turn right onto Cranberry Woods Drive (the Marriott Hotel will be on the right)
•  Follow Cranberry Woods Drive to the first stop sign
•  Continue straight through the stop sign. In 100 yards turn right (no street sign). The MSA building will be on your left
•  Follow drive straight ahead for 250 yards to the entrance to the RLA

From Ohio and West

•  Take Interstate 76 East to Exit 28 (Old Exit 3) – Follow signs for Interstate 79 North
•  Take the second exit - Exit 78 - Route 228 - Cranberry/Mars
•  Turn right onto Route 228 East.
•  At the second traffic light, turn right onto Cranberry Woods Drive (the Marriott Hotel will be on the right)
•  Follow Cranberry Woods Drive to the first stop sign
•  Continue straight through the stop sign. In 100 yards turn right (no street sign). The MSA building will be on your left
•  Follow drive straight ahead for 250 yards to the entrance to the RLA

From Harrisburg and East

•  Take Interstate 76 West to Exit 28 (Old Exit 3) - Follow signs for Interstate 79 North
•  Take the first exit - Exit 78 - Route 228 - Cranberry/Mars
•  Turn right onto Route 228 East
•  At the second traffic light, turn right onto Cranberry Woods Drive (the Marriott Hotel will be on the right)
•  Follow Cranberry Woods Drive to the first stop sign
•  Continue straight through the stop sign. In 100 yards turn right (no street sign). The MSA building will be on your left
•  Follow drive straight ahead for 250 yards to the entrance to the RLA