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Technical Sessions & Conference - 21 & 22 October 2009

"The First 10 Years - Embracing a Changing World"





The conference participants take advantage of the morning registration period to network.









Dr. Ray Copes, Ontario Agency for Health Protection, makes the opening
presentation,"Communicating Food Risk."









Beatrice Leung, Andre Youssef and Albert Wong from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.














Conference Chair, Lorraine McIntyre prepares to thank Dr. Copes for his presentation.




Lorraine helps to set up presentation for Della Smith, Q Workshops Inc.




Della Smith uses her unique presentation style to speak to
"Strategic responses to critical events & how to manage crises."














BCFPA President, Terry Peters introduces Dr. Ben Chapman from North Carolina State University.




Dr. Ben Chapman, Food Safety Extension Specialist, North Carolina State University speaks
to, "Foodborne illness? There's an app for that; using technology to communicate food safety risks."














Conference Committee Volunteer, Sion Shyng assists with loading of presentations.




Unable to attend in person, Roy Wadia, Director, Communications, BC Centre for Disease Control
makes his presentation, "Let’s Talk About the Pandemic: Risk and Crisis Communications
Basics for the Post Post-SARS World"
, by telephone link.














Dr. Chapman speaks with Phil Watney and Shendra Brisdon during the lunch break.









Conference Committee Volunteer, Dewi Winoto behind the reception table speaking with
Student Group Coordinator and Conference Committee Volunteer, Stephanie Chiu.




BCFPA President, Terry Peters, prepares to open the afternoon session sponsored by the BC Innovation Council.




Richard Hallman, Director of Life Sciences with the BC Innovation Council briefly introduces their organization..




Dr. Paul Li, Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University makes his presentation on
"Microfluidic microarray method for detection of fungal infections in food crops".




Richard Hallman introduces Dr. Hua-Zhong (Hogan)Yu, Professor, Simon Fraser University.




Dr. Yu makes his presentation on "Rational design and performance testing of
novel biosensors: from DNA conformational switches to computer readable bioDiscs."










Dr. Yu answers questions from the audience.




Dr. Gary Maki, Professor, University of Idaho, Centre for Advanced Microelectronics and Biomolecular
Research (CAMBR), makes a presentation on "Integration of Nano Transistor Food Biosensors."




Dr. Andre Marzial, Boreal Genomics presents on "Pathogen and Biomarker Detection in Food Safety Testing."














Nilmini Wijewickreme,Director, Food Safety Division, CANTEST Ltd. provides
"A Laboratory Perspective on Issues and Barriers to the Implementation of Rapid Microbiological Methods."




A panel discussion was conducted following the four technical presentations resulting
in an enthusiastic discussion and information exchange.









Conference Committee Volunteers Shendra Brisdon and Lorraine McIntyre, enjoy refreshments
at the networking session sponsored by the BC Innovation Council.




Sion Shyng, Kourosh Pirayesh and Kevin Gallagher network.




UBC Students, Sheena Tam and Stephanie Chiu visit with BCFPA Director,
Alex Montgomery from Canadian Food Inspection Agency.




Dr. Ben Chapman, Food Safety Extension Specialist, North Carolina State University, Lance Hill,
BCFPA Membership Coordinator and John Nelson, Territory Manager, Neogen Corporation discuss
concepts introduced during Dr. Chapman's presentation.




Dewi Winoto, CANTEST Ltd., Janet Eng, Premium Brands and Victor Fernandes network.




Peter Taylor, CANTEST Ltd. visits with Lisa Weih, Fraser Health Authority.









BCFPA President, Terry Peters opens the conference on Day 2 of the event..









Bruce Clark from Marler Clark makes the keynote opening presentation at our conference..









Marsha Taylor, Epidemiologist, BC Centre for Disease Control provides and update on "What’s Making us Poop?"




Conference Chair, Lorraine McIntyre thanks Marsha Taylor for her presentation.




Michael Gänzle, Canada Research Chair in Food Microbiology and Probiotics, Department of
Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta makes his first
presentation on "Antimicrobial Compounds from Plants."



















Lance Hill, BCFPA Membership Coordinator speaks with Julie Wong from BCCDC.




Lance Hill, BCFPA Membership Coordinator attends the BCFPA and IAFP tabletop displays.




Afternoon nutrition break!




Dewi Winoto visits the Inverness Medical Canada display hosted by Dale Foster, Western Sales Manager.




Peggy Schmid and Edward Aletto of RONCO Protective Services talk with Annette Moore, BCFPA Newsletter Editor.




Karen Rideout from the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health at
BC Centre for Disease Control hosts their display.




Ron Kuriyedath, Chief Chemist with the display from SGS Canada Ltd.




Stephanie Chiu speaks with Elietha Bocskei from the BC Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport.




The display from sustaining member I.G. MicroMed Environmental Inc.




Victor Fernandes visits the CMYK Solutions Inc. display of promotional items hosted by Ben Baker.




Sustaining Member, Abell Pest Control Inc., was represented by Bola Fabagamayie,
Regional Manager and Technical Sales Advisor, John Poschner.




Dr. Paul Kitching, Chief Provincial Veterinarian, Director Animal Health Branch,
BC Ministry of Agriculture and Lands presents on "Enteric Zoonoses - On farm strategies for prevention."









Dr. Donald E Kramer made a thorough presentation on the background to "Seafood Products Making Us Sick."




Conference Chair, Lorraine McIntyre thanks Dr. Kramer for his presentation.




Dr. Kramer takes a question from the audience.




Ian Crook, Ecolab Food & Beverage Division speak to "Sanitation Issues in the Plant Environment."




Jo Anne Gin, Avid Consulting Group Ltd. maker presentation "It’s not easy being “green” What is the cost of green?"




Conference Chair, Lorraine McIntyre introduces Jovana Kovacevic, BC Centre for Disease Control
to speak about "Food Spoilage: “Stinkies”, “Slimies” and Biofilms".













Networking during the lunch break.














Doug Neden, Engineering & Construction Department, Metro Vancouver presents on "Making Good Water Better."




Karen Rideout from the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health at BC Centre
for Disease Control makes her presentation "Food Security 101: What is food security
and what does it have to do with food protection?"





Conference Committee Volunteer, Annette Moore introduces Brent Warner, White Loaf Ridge Management
who made a passionate presentation on "Farming survival in BC 2009… and beyond."














Shawn Sanders, MTS inc. speaks about "Cross Connection Control Basics."









Eddie Elsesser, JohnsonDiversey presented on "Make Every Drop Count
- a Water Management Program targeted to deliver improved Operational Efficiency."





Andrea Geere from I.G. MicroMed Environmental Inc. speaks with Dale Foster from Inverness Medical Canada.




Rebecca Robertson speaks with Nancy Bender from 3M Microbiology.









Peter Hopkinson provide some light entertainment and laughs before sending everyone on their way
with his show "Trust me, I'm a Physics Teacher..."














Gary Tam, Lorraine McIntyre, Kourosh Pirayesh and Terry Peters.




Conference Committee Members; Kourosh Pirayesh, Stehpanie Chiu and Dewi Winoto in front of the BCFPA display.



Nestle's, Fort Wine Company, Domaine de Chaberton Estate Winery & Westham Island Estate Winery Student Tour - October 3rd, 2009





The group begins the day with a tour of the Nestle water Plant in Hope, BC.




Elsie Friesen, Zell, Lorraine McIntyre, Terry Peters, Ringa Kurniawan & Friend, Ildiko Herr have some refreshments after the tour.




Elsie Friesen, Zell, Ringa Kurniawan & Friend, Ildiko Herr and Stephanie Chiu.




The Fort Wine Company, Langley, BC produces fruit wines from local crops.




A diked cranberry field on the winery property awaiting flooding and harvesting.




Are there cranberries in that field?




BCFPA president , Terry Peters supervises the cranberry search.




Found it...




Pouring the finished product.




Tasting!




Something for later!




The second winery of the the day, Domaine de Chaberton Estate Winery in Langely, BC




First, Gail leads a tour of the vineyard.








Bacchus white grapes on the vine at the Domaine de Chaberton winerye.




The crushing area where totes of grapes are brought in from the vineyard.




Fermentation tanks.

















Aging in oak barrels.








The bottling, corking and labelling line.




The tasting room at Domaine de Chaberton..




On to the Westham Isalnd Estate Winery in Ladner, BC, and their production area..




Tour guide, Lorraine on the left explains the operation of the winery.



Spring Speaker's Evening - 30 April 2009




Alex Montgomery, Microbiology Technician, I.G. MicroMed Environmental opened
with his presentation on Sampling for Success.









Walter Brandl, Operations Manager, Silliker JR Laboratories Inc. delivers his first
presentation on Collection of Samples for Chemical Analysis.














Katie Eloranta, Microbiology Laboratory Technician, with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency
speaks to Results Assessment for Microbiology.




Terry Peters, President, BC Food Protection Association thanks our four speakers
as the panel prepares to take questions.




Our panel of speakers: (l to r) Alex Montgomery, Microbiology Technician, I.G. MicroMed Environmental,
Kate Abraham, Quality Assurance Manager, Canadian Fishing Company, Katie Eloranta, Microbiology Laboratory Technician,
Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and Walter Brandl, Operations Manager, Silliker JR Laboratories Inc. with
BCFPA President, Terry Peters at the podium.




Katie Eloranta, Microbiology Laboratory Technician, Canadian Food Inspection Agency responds to a question.




Peter Taylor from CANTEST Inc. makes a comment on one of the issues raised.




Walter Brandl, Operations Manager, Silliker JR Laboratories Inc. answers a question from the audience.




Alex Montgomery, Microbiology Technician, I.G. MicroMed Environmental
responds to a question during the panel discussion.




Walter Brandl, Operations Manager, Silliker JR Laboratories Inc. offers his perspective.




Terry Peters, President, BC Food Protection Association thanks our guest speakers for their presentations.




Terry Peters, President, BC Food Protection Association makes closing remarks.



UBC Career Fair - 29 January 2009




Kim Mayes(Willing), Past BCFPA Student Coordinator visits with current BCFPA Student
Coordinator, Stephanie Chiu prior to the opening of the Career Fair.




Lorraine McIntyre, BCFPA Treasurer, Joanna Christy, Student Member and
Terry Peters, BCFPA President prepare to man our exhibit.




Lorraine, Terry and Stephanie in front of our display.




Joanna assists a new member in completing the membership application.




Stephanie and Lorraine answer questions from interested students.




Sponsorship recognition posted at the event.



Nanaimo Workshop & Speaker's Meeting - Monday 19 January 2009





Rebecca Robertson, Manager, What's Next? Food Information Service conducted the workshop on Listeria.









From Front to Back: Bob Hackett from Hackson Enterprises, Dennis Guntor from
Guntor Bros. Meat Co. Ltd., Gerry Morello from CFIA, Jean Veale from Marine
Harvest Canada Inc., and Gerald Murphy of Walcan Seafood Ltd.




Kim Kassay and Teresa Robinson from Browns Bay Packing, Nancy Gourlay from
Little Qualicum Cheeseworks, Jeanine Fukui of Jeanine Fukui Consulting and Dean Norbury
from Oceanfood Industries Ltd. with Graham Monda from ThermoFisher Canada in the foreground.
Carmen Wakeling and Sara Doyle from Eatmore Sprouts and Greens Ltd. are facing away.




Sara Doyle from Eatmore Sprouts and Greens Ltd., Doug Smith and Paul Sutter
from Natural Pastures Cheese Company, Alexa Emerson from Somerset Farms,
and Kourosh Pirayesh listen to Rebecca Robertson.




Cina Opel from VIHA, Ben Beens, Pacific Seafoods International, Lance Hill from Health Canada,
Lorraine McIntyre from BCCDC, Graham Monda from ThermoFisher Canada with Sara Doyle
from Eatmore Sprouts and Greens Ltd. in the foreground.














Marlee Loiselle and Laural Miller from VIHA along with Barbara O'Hara
from Compass Group Canada, Jody Kary and Jennifer Lee from CFIA.




Terry Peters, BCFPA President thanks Rebecca for her presentations.




Bob Hackett from Hackson Enterprises, Dennis Guntor from Gunter Bros. Meat
Co. Ltd., and Alexa Emerson from Somerset Farms network during the break.




Gerry Morello from CFIA visits with Carmen Wakeling from Eatmore Sprouts and Greens Ltd.
with Gerald Murphy of Walcan Seafood Ltd. in the foreground and Jennifer Lee from CFIA in the back.




Jeanine Fukui of Jeanine Fukui Consulting visits with Doug Smith and Paul Sutter
from Natural Pastures Cheese Company.




Graham Monda, Technical Consultant, ThermoFisher Canada provides some practical advice on the
"Top Ten Hiding Spots for Listeria in your Establishment".




Dr. Eleni Galanis, Physician Epidemiologist from the BC Centre for Disease Control
speaks on the epidemiology of Listeria.









Sion Shyng, Food Safety Specialist with Food Protection Services, BC Centre for Disease Control
presents on some of the findings related to cause of recent Listeria outbreaks.




Terry Peters thanks Sion Shyng and Dr. Eleni Galanis for their presentations.


2008 Annual General Meeting - Monday 1 December 2008









Terry Peters, BCFPA President provides welcoming remarks and begins his presentation
reviewing the past accomplishments of our association.




















BCFPA Secretary, Michael Mensah-Wilson reviews the minutes from our 2008 AGM.




BCFPA Treasurer, Lorraine McIntyre present her financial report.




BCFPA membership Coordinator, Lance Hill present his report on membership.












BCFPA Student Professional Development Group Coordinator, Stephanie Chiu presents
her report of student group activities for the past year and planned events for 2009.




Lance Hill presents on planned activities for our 10th Anniversary celebration.








IAFP President-Elect, Vickie Lewandowski joins with BCFPA President, Terry Peters
to present a BCFPA Scholarship Award to University of British Columbia Student, Reena Mistry.




BCFPA President, Terry Peters and IAFP President-Elect, Vickie Lewandowski
present Lynne Sawchuk of the BC Dairy Foundation with their Sustaining Members plaque.




Vickie Lewandowski makes the keynote address, "Safety of Milk Products", courtesy of the IAFP Speaker's Program.








Terry Peters, BCFPA President thanks Vickie Lewandowski for traveling to Vancouver from Chicago to make her presentations.




Michael Mensah-Wilson, BCFPA Secretary claims his doorprize courtesy of 3M Microbiology.




Reena Mistry winner of a jumpdrive courtesy of BCFPA, draws a name for a doorprize.




Terry Peters is assisted by Amy Yahzeng Liu winner of a doorprize courtesy of 3M Microbiology.




BCFPA President Terry Peters makes closing remarks.




Edward Alleto from RONCO poses with Nancy Metcalfe from 3M Microbiology.




Outgoing BCFPA Executive and Founding Member, Annette Moore in front of her display.




Dewi Winoto and Brian Jang in front of their CANTEST Ltd. display.




UBC Graduate Students, Gwen Leusink and Amy Yahzeng Liu all smiles as they bid good bye at the end of the evening.




Alex Montgomery, newly elected member of the BCFPA Executive
with the display from I.G. MicroMed Environmental Inc.