Final Notes Fera/JIFSAN 2012
Robert Edwards
Chief Scientist
Food and Environment Research
Agency (Fera)
Criteria for joint meetings
• Topical
• Key relevance to food industry and
regulatory authorities
• JIFSAN/ Fera have world class science
offering
• Formative
Global analysis
• New advances in sequencing, chemical
analysis and informatics are revolutionizing
food science
• Move from targeted to non-targeted analysis
• DNA- Metagenomics, pathogen ID
• Proteins- Allergens, biopharma
• Chemicals-emerging threats, nutritional value
• New tools for evaluating risk and benefit
Fera/JIFSAN 2012
“New developments in safety: realising the
potential of omic technologies”
13-15 June 2012
Fera, York, UK (www.defra.gov.uk/fera)
Focus of meeting
• Topical examples of the use of omic
technologies in applied food science
• Latest technologies in genomics, proteomics,
metabolomics, nutrigenomics (inc. forward
look)
• Data handling and processing
• Application to food safety and the implications
for surveillance, control, traceability and
regulation
Fera/JIFSAN 2012
“New developments in safety: realising the
potential of omic technologies”
13-15 June 2012
Fera, York, UK (www.defra.gov.uk/fera)