EXPERTS
Dr Colin Block, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centres, Israel
Dr Christopher Braden, National Center for Infectious Diseases, United States of America
Dr Robert Buchanan, US Food and Drug Administration, United States of America
Dr Celia Carlos, Department of Health, the Philippines
Prof. Martin Cole, Food Science Australia, Australia
Dr John Cowden, Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health, United Kingdom
Dr Jeff Farber, Health Canada, Canada
Dr Stephen J. Forsythe, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
Dr Arie Havelaar,[1] National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, the Netherlands, and WHO Collaborating Centre for Risk Assessment of Pathogens in Food and Water
Dr Shizunobu Igimi, National Institute of Health Sciences, Japan
Dr Lisa Lefferts, Consultant, United States of America
Dr Harry Muytjens, University Medical Center Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Dr Gopinath Balakrish Nair, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Mr Greg Paoli, Decisionalysis Risk Consultants, Inc., Canada
Prof. Hildegard Przyrembel, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Germany
Dr Jos Van Acker, AZ Sint-Lucas/Volkskliniek Laboratory, Belgium
Dr Marcel Zwietering, Wageningen University and Research Center, the Netherlands
PARTICIPANTS FROM INDUSTRY FOR GENERAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE
Dr Jean-Louis Cordier, Nestec S.A., Switzerland
Mr Daniel March, Mead Johnson Nutritionals, United States of America
DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST
Two out of the 16 experts which participated in this meeting declared an interest in the topics under consideration:
Dr Forsythe: His research is related to a commercially available tool for diagnosis of Enterobacter sakazakii in infant formula.
Dr Zwietering: His unit at the University of Wageningen performs scientific research which is financially supported by a company producing powdered infant formula.
[1] Convener of the pre-meeting
electronic discussion group to consider possible approaches for assessing the
risk posed by pathogens in powdered infant formula. |