Technical Meeting on the impact of Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) on food safety management - Monday morning session
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FAO convenes a "Technical Meeting on the impact of Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) on food safety management" on 23-25 May 2016. The meeting discusses the benefits and potential drawbacks of using Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) for food safety management. More than 170 people including public sector officials working in the area of food safety as well as experts from private sector, civil society organizations, research/academic institutions, and international organizations have registered to the meeting. The meeting will be conducted in English only.
FAO session
08:30 – 08:45 Opening remarks (Ren Wang, Assistant Director-General, Agriculture and Consumer Protection Department, FAO)
08:45 – 09:00 Objectives of the Technical Meeting (Masami Takeuchi, Food Safety Officer, FAO)
09:00 – 09:45 Whole Genome Sequencing(WGS)–how significant is it to food safety?(Presentation of the FAO tech. paper) (Celine Nadon, PHA, Canada)
09:45 – 10:00 Discussion
10:30 – 12:00 Panel discussion on benefits and potential drawbacks of WGS
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