Message from Ed Kolbe, PFT President

From: Pamela Tom (pdtom@ucdavis.edu)
Date: Sun Feb 02 2003 - 12:29:18 PST

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    [Note to Seafood HACCP mailing list members: Ed Kolbe is circulating this
    message to subscribers of the PFT, IFT Aquatic Food Products Division, and
    Seafood HACCP mailing lists. Please excuse the multiple messages if you
    are receiving more than one copy]

    Check out the current program and plans for the Pacific Fisheries
    Technologists meeting on our website:
    http://seafood.ucdavis.edu/organize/pft.htm

    Scheduled for February 23-26 in Astoria, the program will address a range
    of topics and questions important to seafood processors, regulators, and
    researchers.

    Monday's keynote address by Mr. Frank Dulcich, President of The Pacific
    Seafood Group, will look at where today's industry might be headed. This
    leads into a panel exploring how fisheries management policies could be
    made to improve the quality and value of seafood.

    A series of talks and posters then covers

    - The utilization of seafood wastes for meals, chitin-based products,
    protein powders;
    - Effects of aquaculture diets and practices on shrimp, sea urchins,
    rainbow trout;
    - New products from extracted enzyme systems, fatty acids, fish sauce,
    chitosan, and albacore for Japanese consumers;
    - Processing innovations to improve: storage of squid and cazon fish; gel
    forming mechanisms from fish proteins; freezing efficiency in blast
    freezers; utilization of Arrowtooth flounder; heating rates with radio
    frequency technology.

    Much of the program on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday explores issues of
    food safety, regulation, and control: What is the public perception of
    Mercury in seafood; how are biotoxins monitored and controlled; what
    research is underway concerning Lysteria and other microorganisms; how can
    the internet assist with HACCP training; how is software assisting issues
    of traceability?

    Two panels finish off the Wednesday session. The first: how processors
    can better deal with import and export issues. The second: how to build
    partnerships among industry, agencies, academics to increase the value of
    HACCP?

    Details? See http://seafood.ucdavis.edu/organize/pft.htm.

    Hope to see you in Astoria.

    Ed Kolbe, 2002-2003 President,
    Pacific Fisheries Technologists.

    Oregon State University
    Food Innovation Center
    1207 NW Naito Parkway; Suite 154
    Portland, OR 97209-2834
    (503) 872-6676
    FAX (503) 872-6648



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