Food Allergy Canada Webinars
Enhancing Guidance for Food Allergen Management in Canada including a Risk-based Approach for the Application of Precautionary Allergen Labelling
When?
Session 1 | October 9, 2024
9am to 10am Pacific
Session 2 | October 11, 2024
9am to 10am Pacific
Where?
This Sessions is Virtual
How?
We have combined these two offerings into one webinar on October 9th. Register for the session below at no cost!
A multi-stakeholder collaboration in Canada, involving food manufacturers, Université Laval, Canadian Allergists, and Canada’s national patient organization, Food Allergy Canada, has led to the development of Canadian Allergen Management Guidelines for Food Manufacturers. These guidelines help to support food manufacturers in their implementation of effective allergen control plans including the responsible use of Precautionary Allergen Labelling, to better meet the needs of Canadians managing food allergy.
This session has been combined with the session on October 9th.
Session Two | October 11 | 9am (PDT)
Question & Answer Session
Join us for an interactive Q&A session where you can ask questions related to the Guidelines, allergen management practices, risk assessment, precautionary allergen labelling and more! Hear from the experts at Université Laval & Food Allergy Canada as they address your questions and provide their perspective on commonly asked questions for the food industry.
In preparation for the webinar, please review the guidelines and provide your questions in advance through the registration link below.
Review the Guidelines here:Â Allergen Management Guidelines for Food Manufacturers
SPEAKERS
Beatrice Povolo | Director, Food Safety & Regulatory Affairs – Food Allergy Canada
Beatrice is the Director, Food Safety & Regulatory Affairs at Food Allergy Canada. In this capacity, she leads the organization’s food safety initiatives working with both government and industry stakeholders, with a specific focus on access to accurate ingredient information in food labelling and foodservice. She is actively involved in international discussions related to allergen management as a member of the Health Canada delegation for the CODEX Committee on Food Labelling (CCFL) and collaborates internationally with other patient organizations globally. Beatrice is currently the Project Management Lead for a multi-stakeholder initiative for the development of Allergen Management and Pre-cautionary Allergen Labelling Guidelines for the Canadian food industry. She graduated from the University of Toronto, with an Honours BA in political science and economics.
Dr. Silvia Dominguez | Research Associate, Université Laval
Dr. Dominguez is a food engineer specialized in food safety risk assessment, allergen management, statistical analysis and data modeling. She holds a MSc and a PhD in Food Science from Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA). After graduation, she worked as a food microbiologist for the food industry in the United States, before returning to research and consulting in 2016. She currently works as a research associate at the Food Risk Analysis and Regulatory Excellence Platform, hosted by the Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods (INAF) of Université Laval (Quebec, Canada), where she manages research projects on allergens and food fraud, industry outreach activities, and food safety capacity building initiatives for competent authorities at the international level.
