Foodborne Disease: Hazards, Risks, and Values

In this webinar, Dr. John Spink and Dr. Felicia Wu explain the basics of quantitative risk assessment of foodborne disease and how to use quantitative risk assessment to make the business case for food protection. Case studies are used to illustrate both quantitative risk assessment and the business case for food protection.
John, Spink, PhD, is the Director of the Food Fraud Initiative within the Master's of Science in Food Safety Program and the College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University. Dr. Spink's research includes business risks related to food fraud and product fraud, general anti-counterfeiting, and anti-counterfeiting countermeasures. Dr. Spink is involved in product fraud related activities with the International Standards Organization (ISO), the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), U.S. Pharmacopeia/ Food Chemicals Codex (USP), the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Traceability Center, and Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) for Food Economic Adulteration and Brand Protection. He has been a frequent US agency presenter for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Dr. Felicia Wu is the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition and Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University. Her research concerns the global health and economic risks of foodborne toxins, and the cost-effectiveness and feasibility of interventions to improve food safety in resource-poor settings. For her research on the impact of aflatoxin regulations on global liver cancer, Dr. Wu was awarded a National Institutes of Health EUREKA Award. She has been commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) to estimate the global burden of disease caused by foodborne aflatoxin and foodborne arsenic. Dr. Wu serves on the expert roster of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) of the United Nations, and is one of three recipients of the 2011 Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)-Zhongyu award for global environmental research. She is an area editor for three journals: Risk Analysis, World Mycotoxin Journal, and Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health. Dr. Wu earned her PhD in Engineering & Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, and her AB and SM in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University.
Presented November 2013