GTRI Hosts First-Ever Novel Sensing for Food Safety Workshop

ATRP together with the Georgia Tech Schools of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, and the University of Georgia’s Center for Food Safety organized the first-ever Workshop on Novel Sampling and Sensing for Improving Food Safety. Held at GTRI’s Conference Center on June 16-17, the workshop drew 132 attendees, representing industry, government, and academia. With the goal of stimulating innovative approaches for improving food safety through advanced sensing and novel sampling methods, workshop presentations provided attendees with lectures on topics ranging from the Food Safety Modernization Act to novel approaches for pathogen isolation and detection. The workshop was sponsored by the National Science Foundation with additional funding from Pfizer Animal Health, Arch Chemicals, and the host universities. “This workshop was a great success as it provided a forum for scientists and engineers with varied backgrounds to discuss synergies in current and future research activities focused on sampling, pre-concentration, and sensing of food pathogens,” says Dr. Doug Britton, ATRP program manager.