The organizing committee for 8th edition of Dubai International Food Safety Conference, has completed entire preparations for the conference, which will be held on 18 and 19 November 2013 in DWTC under the slogan 'Leadership in Innovation and Change'.
The conference that aimed at discussing important issues related to food safety in the light of increasing significance of the subject, will be organized in collaboration with International Association for Food Protection IAFP and a number of local and international organizations working in the Food Safety including Ministry of Environment and Water, DHA, UAE University, Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority.
To organize the conference DM partners with IAFP, the largest association of professionals in the field of food safety, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - CDC USA, The International Commission on Microbiological Specifications for Foods - ICMSF, International Federation of Science and Technology - IUFoST, Campden BRI and Environmental Protection Agency US.
Eng. Khalid Mohammed Sherif, Director of Food Control Department at Dubai Municipality and head of Conference Organizing Committee said that this important international event organized by the civic body, in its previous editions, has attracted 7,300 participants from different parts of the world, in addition to hundreds of experts and specialists who presented above 500 scientific papers and researches in different specializations of food safety.
"This year we are going to add an exhibition along with conference for the first time providing unique opportunity for all who interested in food safety issues at global lever in order to exchange ideas and thoughts on the latest updates of food safety issues in local, regional and international levels," Sherif said.
"The agenda of conference is designed to discuss the latest developments in the field of food safety and to learn how to deal with and solve the current problems of food safety, wherein the conference will provide access to the latest information and best practices as well as to exchange views on addressing the related problems," he said.
"The conference becomes one of the most important event in the world as it contains a number of practices and special sittings in the field of food and will be sponsored by the leading food organizations. The platinum sponsors are Mars ME, Spinnies, Nestle, Meat and Livestock, Unilever, Mondele. LuLu Hypermarket supports the event as Golden Sponsor, while McDonald, ADNH and Dubai Refreshments offers silver sponsorship," he said. We also thank the supporting organizations including Highfiled, TSI, CPI, Life Technologies, Nestle, Al Habibi, Aujan, Dubai Trade Center, Farmfresh and Al Islami.
Bobby Krishna, Principal Food Studies and Surveys Officer at Dubai Municipality said that we hope the event to become successful and ever memorable one like its previous editions as it focuses on one of the biggest issues faced by each and every country in the world.
"Being an international food business hub, Dubai is the most suitable place to discuss such issues. Moreover, the civic body strongly believes that ensuring the high level food safety is an integrated part for achieving its vision to create an excellent city that provides essence of success and comfort of sustainable living," he said.
"There is a big chance for a country to get affected by an incident at any part of the world. Hence, the conference is expected to be a platform to think together and take joint action to prevent any potential food contamination and related problems," he added.
He stated that the list of keynote speakers for the conference, which is the largest gathering in the Middle East for professionals and food safety experts, including Professor Ali Badarne from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Austria, Mr. Atef Idriss, Lebanon, Dr. Leila Batarseh regional adviser for the US Food and Drug Administration for the Middle East and North Africa, Dr. Walid Aala from the University of Georgia, USA, Dr. Ata Baroudi, vice president of Cheesecake plant, USA, Dr. Muiz Al Thani from the French Agency for Health, Food, Environmental and Occupational Safety and Dr. Ashraf Zuhairi from the Ministry of Tourism, Egypt.
Congratulation!