Louisiana
Food Processors Conference Set For March
Posted:
1/26/04
The second annual
Louisiana Food Processors Conference will be March 3-4, 2004
at the Lod Cook Conference Center and Hotel on the LSU campus.
It is sponsored by the LSU AgCenter Department of Food Science,
the Louisiana Department of Economic Development, Louisiana
Sea Grant and others.
The food processing
industry has changed dramatically in the last decade. A major
purpose of the conference is to provide information on new
regulations in the areas of food safety and security, marketing
challenges, global trade, emerging pathogens, federally mandated
training, and record keeping.
Plenary sessions
featuring national and regional speakers from government and
industry will lay the foundation for multiple breakout sessions.
For example, the seafood session will include presentations
on phosphate and marination technologies, processing waste
treatment, and current seafood marketing efforts. Already
on the agenda are presentations on the biosecurity act, practical
responses to food security for food plants, a visual tour
of LSU’s processing pilot plant facility, using television
to market foods, a short course on sensory analysis of foods,
and rapid microbial analysis techniques.
A Louisiana joint
legislative field hearing concerning state needs of food processing
industries is tentatively scheduled to be held at the conference
business meeting.
This conference
is intended for food processors, food processing support and
supply industries, state and federal government representatives
and others interested in value-added food processing.
For more
information and to register go to http://www.lsuagcenter.com/foodscience/register.asp
or contact the Department of Food Science and speak with Terri
Gilmer or Shannah Spencer at (225) 578-5207 or e-mail tgilmer@agcenter.lsu.edu.
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