This event features four key sessions:
Session 1: An international perspective on the COVID 19 pandemic and the impact on food safety and food security amongst other
Session 2: Views on the impact on the South African food chain and lessons learned – trench warfare
Session 3: Further international learnings and how we can apply them to our FSMS
Session 4: What risks can we expect in 2021?
| TIME | SPEAKER | DESIGNATION & ORGANISATION | TITLE |
| 10h00 | Linda Jackson | Director Food Focus |
House Rules |
| 10h10 | Prof Lucia Anelich | Director Anelich Consulting |
Welcome, Opening and Session 1
SESSION 1: |
| 10h15 | Prof Lucia Anelich | Director Anelich Consulting |
SARS-CoV-2: Is it a food safety risk? |
| 10h30 | Dr. Wayne Anderson | Director Food Science and Standards Food Safety Authority of Ireland |
Food Safety Regulation in a COVID-19 Pandemic |
| 10h45 | Dr. Jeff Lejeune | Food Safety and Quality Officer and Secretariat for the FAO/ WHO Joint Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). | Upsetting the Apple Cart: Impacts of a Pandemic (COVID-19) that’s not food transmitted on Food Systems |
| 11h00 | Dr. John Donaghy | Head of Food Safety (Microbiology/Allergens) Corporate Operations – Quality Management Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. |
Navigating challenges of COVID throughout the food supply chain |
| 11h20 | All | Q&A | Q&A |
| 11h30 | Linda Jackson | Director Food Focus |
Session 2: Views on the impact on the South African food chain and lessons learned – trench warfare |
| 11h40 | Dr. Gerhard Neethling | General Manager Red Meat Industry Forum |
The impact of the pandemic on the red meat supply chain |
| 11h50 | Lianne Jones | Country Manager South Africa Produce Marketing Association |
The impact of the pandemic on the produce supply chain |
| 12h00 | Matlou Setati | FSI Executive Consumer Goods Council of South Africa |
The impact of the pandemic on the manufacturer and retail supply chain |
| 12h10 | Jane Nock | Chief Technical Food Science Officer In2Foods |
Our experiences with COVID-19: Going Over the Top |
| 12h20 | Karin Carstensen | Scientific and Regulatory Affairs Manager Woolworths Foods South Africa |
Woolworths Foods during COVID-19 |
| 12h30 | Namhla Skweyiya | Independent | COVID-19: Flattening the curve or spiking food safety risks? |
| 12h40 | All | Q&A | Q&A |
| 12h50 | Kalmia Kniel | President IAFP |
Linda Jackson chats to the IAFP President, Kalmia Kniel |
| 13h10 | Lucky Draw | Lucky Draw | Lucky Draw |
| 13h15 | Prof Lucia Anelich | Director Anelich Consulting |
Session 3: Further international learnings and how we can apply them to our FSMS |
| 13h20 | Prof Leon Gorris | Independent Food Safety Expert Food Safety Futures |
COVID-19: Not a food safety issue but can food safety and hygiene help manage its health risks? |
| 13h40 | Prof Michelle Danyluk | Professor of Food Science The University of Florida |
Food Hygiene Training in the Time of COVID-19: Everything has Changed (also, Nothing has Changed) |
| 14h00 | Prof Ryk Lues | Director of Centre for Applied Food Safety and Biotechnology Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein (CUT) |
VUCA and our food safety culture |
| 14h15 | All | Q&A | Q&A |
| 14h25 | Linda Jackson | Director Food Focus |
Session 4 : What risks can we expect in 2021? |
| 14h30 | JP. v. Lewinski | AIG Global Insurers | COVID 19 – A change in risk management or not? |
| 14h40 | Kevin O’Brien | Group Sustainability and Risk Executive The SPAR Group Ltd |
The immediate impact of COVID-19 has revealed the deep fragility of the South African food system and exposed the injustice that underpins it. |
| 14h55 | Elsabe Mathee | Technical Manager FSSC Foundation |
The future of FSSC 22000 |
| 15h05 | Dr. Richard Swannell | International Development Director WRAP Global |
Food Waste – The real issue |
| 15h15 | Bill Marler | Managing Partner Marler Clark |
Food Borne Illness Litigation |
| 15h30 | Frank Yiannas | Deputy Commissioner, Food Policy and Response United States FDA |
The real food safety risks for the future |
| 15h50 | Dawie Roodt | Chief Economist Efficient Group |
The economic outlook for South Africa – post COVID |
| 16h05 | Karin Goodburn MBE | Director-General Chilled Food Association |
The REAL food safety hazards we should be focusing on |
| 16h25 | All | Q&A | Q&A |
| 16h30 | Closure | Closure | Closure |