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World seafood congress 2023
molluscan shellfish safety

World Seafood Congress 2023

in association with International Conference on Molluscan Shellfish Safety

25-27 September 2023
Peniche-PORTUGAL 

The Group

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Programme

VENUE LOCATION                                          Coordinates

Congress: Escola Superior de Turismo e do Mar (ESTM).                  39.36493077130995, -9.403192095802707

Welcome Sundowner Cocktail: Danau Bar, Baleal.              39.3719304531269, -9.337793800665558

Congress Dinner: Star Inn Hotel                                                       39.358305384707, -9.36329425527965

Pre Congress
IAFI Developing Country Regional Workshops 

Sunday

24th September 

Tuesday
26st September 

  • Molluscan shellfish safety (biotoxins and microbiology)

  • Planning the human resource for the seafood sector

  • Evolving seafood safety risks

  • Challenges in seafood regulation, inspection and control

  • WSC 2023 Congress Dinner

  • IAFI Awards

Post-Congress Technical visits

Thursday

28th September

Monday
25th September 

  • Opening addresses

  • Science, technology and utilisation of fishery and aquaculture products

  • Health hazards, safety and nutrition of seafood

Wednesday
27th September 

  • Ethical dimension of the global seafood trade

  • Final Round Table: Panel discussion on key themes

  • Congress close

  • IAFI General Meeting

Fish

Speakers Presentation Downloads

Alejandro Rivera Rojas - UNIDO

Advancing Blue Economy as enabler of Sustainable Development: UNIDO approach and experiences

Alejandro Rivera Rojas - UNIDO

Improving Fisheries Trade in Sub Saharan Africa through QI Interventions

Evelyne Nusalim - Indonesian Food Safety Institute

Advancing Blue Economy as enabler of Sustainable Development: UNIDO approach and experiences

Ian Goulding - President IAFI

A review of the status of official controls for the food safety of fishery products exported from African countries

Stella Mbabazi - Senior Fisheries Officer, Government of Uganda

The Fish Export Trade, Challenges and Opportunities as a Developing Country, a case of Uganda

Essam Yassin Mohammed - Director General, WorldFish and CGIAR Senior Director of Aquatic Foods

"Blue Harvest: Charting a Sustainable Course for People, Planet, and Profits”

Alison Turnbull - Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania

“Managing Evolving Seafood Safety Risks in the Changing Global Environment”

Valeska Weymann  - GLOBAL G.A.P. Secretariat

“Holistic Approach Towards Safe and Sustainable Aquaculture Supply Chain”

Esther Garrido Gamarro - FAO

 “Import Notifications due to the presence of Antimicrobials: A Comparative Analysis in the European Union, Japan, and the United States of America”

Jayne Gallagher  - Honey & Fox Pty Ltd, Australia

Session 2 introduction

Omar Riego Peñarubia - FAO

“Harnessing the Power of Internet in Addressing Food Loss and Waste in Aquatic Food Value Chains”

Ansen Ward - FAO

 “A Multi-Dimensional Solutions Approach to Fish Loss and Waste and Strategy Development”

Jogeir Toppe  - FAO

“Bivalves, an Exceptional Source of Nutrients”

Federico Garcia  - INFOPESCA

“Processing of Tilapia By-Products for use in School Meals in Honduras”

Graham Purnell  - National Centre for Food Manufacturing (UK)

“Supercooling for Seafood Preservation”

Ricardo Calado - Department of Biology, CESAM & ECOMARE, University of Aveiro

“Tracing the Geographic Origin of Bivalves – For Value, Safety and Conservation”

Jayne Gallagher  - Honey & Fox Pty Ltd, Australia

“Traceability, Authenticity and Provenance Technologies – Drivers, Barriers and Measuring Impacts for Australian Small Food Businesses”

Francisco Leotte - Fisheries Sustainability Manager, Thai Union Group

“Ensuring Sustainability in the Global Tuna Trade”

Mike Platt  - Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST)

“The Opportunity for a Common Language of Seafood Traceability and Data Interoperability”

João Reis - DOCAPESCA, Portugal

“Improving food safety and traceability though certification”

David Tim Harwood  - Cawthron Institute, New Zealand

“Analytical Approaches used to Discover Toxins produced by Ostreopsis Species”

Carmela Dell’Aversano  - UNINA-DF, University of Naples Federico II, School of Medicine and Surgery, Italy

“Isolation of Ovatoxin-A. A Key Step for Hazard Characterization and Risk Management of Ovatoxins”

Esther Garrido Gamarro - FAO

“FAO Report – Microplastics in Food Commodities: A Food Safety Review on Human Exposure through Dietary Sources”

Clare Winkel  - Integrity Compliance Solutions, Australia

“How Safe is our Packaging? Understanding Potential Food Safety Hazards in Packaging”

Susana Rodrigues  - IPMA – Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere

“15-Year Retrospective Review of Ciguatera in Madeira Islands (NE Atlantic, Portugal)”

Laurice Churchill - Seafood Inspection Program, NOAA Fisheries, USA

“National Shellfish Sanitation Program Five Marine Biotoxin Strategies, Challenges for Offshore Bivalve Molluscan Shellfish Harvest”

Ivan Bartolo - Seafish,UK

“The UK’s new Border Target Operating Model”

Dina Galhanas - ESTS-IPS, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal

“Use of Estuarine Water Quality Index (EWQI) as a tool to aid Oysters Aquaculture Production in Coastal Zones”

Stephen Jones - University of New Hampshire, USA

 “Evolution and Management of Vibrio Parahaemolyticus Populations in the Northeast USA”

Bárbara Teixeira, Helena Vieira, Sandra Martins, Rogério Mendes - IPMA, CIIMAR, Portugal

Control of fraudulent addition of water to octopus using a rapid and non-destructive method

Vasco Antunes  - Directorate F Health and Food Audits and Analysis, Directorate General for Health and Food Safety, European Commission

“Frequent Official Control Difficulties”

Clare Winkel - Integrity Compliance Solutions, Australia

“Australian Food Safety Regulations and Processed Seaweed Critical Control Points”

Tracy Murai - Assistant Director, Global Fisheries and Marine, Thai Union Group (UK)

“Work and Welfare in the Global Seafood Trade”

Katherine Hanly - Pew Charitable Trusts

 “The Link between Fisher Safety and the status of 3 International Treaties to end IUU”

Jovice Mkuchu - Department of Fisheries, Tanzania

“Application if The Comprehensive Electronic Catch Documentation and Traceability Principles And Pathway In An Octopus Fishery In Tanzania”

Jovice Mkuchu - Department of Fisheries, Tanzania

“Application if The Comprehensive Electronic Catch Documentation and Traceability Principles And Pathway In An Octopus Fishery In Tanzania”

Paper Pages

Poster Presentation Downloads

IMPACT OF GROWTH MEDIUM ON THE NUTRITIONAL QUALITY OF SEAWEEDS

Filipa R. Pinto, Verónica Felicio, Maria M. Gil

CHEMICAL AND MICROBIOLOGICAL QUALITY OF PORTUGUESE SHELLFISH WATERS: 2019-2021 PERIOD

Helena Maria Lourenço Filipa Bettencourt, Susana Gonçalves, Marta Nogueira, Sónia Pedro

HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT OF MERCURY, CADMIUM, AND LEAD IN GREEN MUSSEL (PERNA VIRIDIS) AND OYSTER (CRASSOSTREA IREDALEI) HARVESTED IN NORTHWESTERN PHILIPPINES

Bernajocele Jalyn S. Baldoza, Allysa Ross N. Almagro, Flordeliza D. Cambia, Kathlene Cleah D. Benitez, Karl Bryan S. Perelonia, Bryan E. Tanyag, Ulysses M. Montojo

PACKAGING DESIGN: CHILLED SEAFOOD IN AN AMBIENT CHAIN

Luke Talbot, Graham Purnell

AQUACULTURE BY-PRODUCTS: A SOURCE OF MARINE COLLAGEN

María Blanco Comesaña, Marta Pérez Testa, Helena Pazó Malvido, Ricardo I. Pérez-Martín

SANITARY STUDY OF THE TAGUS RIVER ESTUARY

Patrícia Presado, Sara Pereira, Sara Pereira, Marta Fraga, Rúben O. Freitas

FISHERY WASTES AND BY-PRODUCTS UTILIZATION: TURNING THE NUISANCE INTO VALUABLE RESOURCES

Riza Jane S. Banicod, Ulysses M. Montojo, Gezelle C. Tadifa, Deserie M. Peralta, Karl Bryan S. Perelonia, Lilian C. Garcia

THE LAST MEAL FOR BIVALVES AND THE FIRST CHOICE FOR CONSUMERS: MICROENCAPSULATED FORTIFICATION ON THE DEPURATION PROCESS

Vitória Pereira, Sílvia F. S. Pires, Andreia C. M. Rodrigues, Pedro Bem-Haja, Amadeu M. V. M. Soares, Luís Conceição, Rui J. M. Rocha, Mário Pacheco,

A NEW APPROACH FOR PLTX-LIKE COMPOUNDS DISCOVERY IN OSTREOPSIS CF. OVATA SAMPLES

M. Varra, L. Tartaglione, V. Miele, E. Passfield, A. Selwood, S. Murray, A. Penna, A. Turner, T. Harwood, C. Dell’Aversano

THE IMPACT OF SUBSTRATE IN HEAVY METALS CONTENT IN LIMPETS FROM OCEANIC ARCHIPELAGO

Pedro Ideia, Mafalda Freitas,Ricardo Sousa

FIVE YEARS MONITORING THE EMERGENCE OF UNREGULATED TOXINS IN SHELLFISH IN FRANCE (EMERGTOX 2018-2022

Zouher Amzil, Amélie Derrien, Aouregan Terre Terrillon, Audrey Duval, Véronique Savar Korian Lhaute, Thomas Bertin, Marion Peyrat, Nathalie Arnich, Vincent Hort, Marina Nicolas

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