Who: Param Singh, vice president of clinical trial management solutions, BioPharm Systems

Adrian Hampshire, managing director, EMEA, BioPharm Systems

Paul Dobrowolskyj, senior consultant, Oracle Health Sciences

What: Webinar: "Business and Operational Risks in Clinical and Safety: Applying Appropriate Technology and Approaches to Mitigate Risk"

All business processes are subject to some level of risk. Key to the long term viability of any company is the critical need to identify the risks, quantify them, minimize them, and have a clear plan for dealing with any residual risks.

Organizations try to mitigate risks by implementing systems that support the company's business processes. Commercial software systems that are available from vendors such as Oracle include many capabilities which, if implemented properly, greatly reduce the risks in the business process.

The implementation of complex systems is, in itself, a risky process. Organizations like BioPharm Systems have been able to use their wide range of experience to develop pre-configured and pre-validated solutions that help reduce the risks during the implementation of a clinical trial management system (CTMS) and a safety system.

This one and a half-hour webinar will provide an overview of business risks related to clinical and safety systems and will illustrate how the risks inherent in implementing complex CTMS and safety systems can be significantly reduced.

When: Thursday, November 17, 2011 @:

7:00 a.m. US Pacific time
8:00 a.m. US Mountain time
9:00 a.m. US Central time
10:00 a.m. US Eastern time
15:00 UK time
16:00 Central European time

Webinar Information: To register for this complimentary webinar, go to: https://cc.readytalk.com/r/bf2hph6dutcu

In this Food safety training learn about Food preservation, traditional heat treatment, emerging food processing technologies, sterilization, shelf stable products, low acid foods, US FDA and USDA regulations, Health Canada, new regulatory terms and definitions, novel foods, high hydrostatic pressure, microwave heating, irradiation.

Description
Why Should You Attend:
Sterilisation unit operation is directed towards achieving shelf stability or commercial sterility through microorganisms removal or inactivation including spores. Traditionally, the food industry used heat to sterilize foods. In current times, where the role of the consumer has become leading and necessary, food production systems are no longer supply-driven but become more demand-driven. As a result of consumer demands for foods that are fresher, more natural, or minimally processed and additive-free, new physical methods of treatment are emerging for shelf-life extension and are under broad development.

Essential terms and definitions of sterilization process in the production of low acid foods (LAF) will be presented. In addition, general approaches for the establishment of sterilization process using traditional thermal and emerging techniques will be discussed.

Buy : Alternative Food Preservation: Pasteurization

Learning Objectives:

Learn about new technologies that can be used for sterilisation and requirements for process design.
Assist to make the right choices to satisfy modern society requirements for safe and healthy products.
Understand the new regulatory terms and definitions.
Understand the specific emerging technologies that are the best fit for different categories of foods.
Areas Covered in the Seminar:

Food preservation technologies.
Food safety.
Low acid foods.
Traditional thermal technologies .
Advanced thermal technologies.
Regulatory terms and definitions.
Sterilization definition and techniques.
Emerging food processing technologies.
High pressure.
Microwave heating.
Packaging.
Process required microbial log reduction.
Food Safety Objective.
Safe process design.
Who Will Benefit:

Quality Assurance Managers
Production Managers
Laboratory Managers
Food Safety Personnel
HACCP Coordinators
Government Food Inspectors
Sanitation Managers
Corporate and Plant Microbiologists
Processing Engineers
Operations Supervisors and Managers
Food Technologists
Instructor Profile:
Dr. Tatiana Koutchma, is a Research Scientist in Food Processing in Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Guelph Food Research Center where she leads research in food safety engineering. Before she joined the AAFC, she was an Associate Professor at the National Centre for Food Safety and Technology (NCFST) at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago where she had taught courses in food processing and engineering. She received her doctoral degree in Food Process Engineering at Moscow State University of Food Production. Since 1990, she has worked in academia and government research programs, collaborating with leading food companies. Her main research focus is application of emerging processing technologies like UV light, microwave heating and high hydrostatic pressure for improved food safety, security, shelf life and product acceptability. She also initiated a research program on UV pasteurization of fresh juices and other liquid ingredients.

Dr. Koutchma is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Food Processing, Food, and Bioprocess Technology; a member of the Innovative Technologies Board of PepsiCo; is an invited speaker at international symposiums and congresses; and, chairs conferences and society sections. Since 1998, she has published over 50 manuscripts and book chapters on a wide range of food processing related topics. In 2009 she completed a book on the application of UV technology for foods called “Ultraviolet Light in Food Technology: Principles and Applications”.

This webinar addresses new test methods for quantifying migration of Printing inks on food packaging materials into the packaged food and how they affect food safety law compliance.

Description
Why Should You Attend:

Packaged food worth millions of Euros has been recalled in Europe over the past four years as a result of the transfer of printing ink chemicals from the printed layer of packaging material into the packaged product. EU authorities have responded with new regulations and procedures intended to prevent such contamination. The US is likely to follow.

In the US, users and producers of food packaging are responsible for insuring that no chemicals from printing inks migrate into the packaged product. With basic testing protocols for demonstrating that chemicals from these inks do not migrate into packaged food now established through this European initiative, food packages must deal with a new scientific standard for meeting their no-migrate standard.

This webinar will present the methods and guidelines for surrogate food simulants in force now in Europe, with an eye towards their use in compliance with US food safety law.

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

Food processing facility inspections.
Indirect food additives.
Migration into food.
Migration testing and modeling.
Food simulants for migration experiments.
Packaging material traceability.
Product recall response.
Good manufacturing practices.
Surface-print ink offset mechanisms.
Who Will Benefit:

Personnel responsible for HACCP, food safety procedures, FDA compliance, product traceability and safety audits at food processing facilities
Members of the Institute of Food Technologists and American Society for Quality involved in food safety and quality assurance
Packaging engineers at companies using or supplying food packaging material
Instructor Profile:

Tom Dunn, has over thirty years experience in designing food packaging materials and operating food packaging facilities in compliance with local, state, Federal, and International safety regulations. He is past Chairman of the Flexible Packaging Association Technical Committee and the Flexible Packaging Groups of the Society of Plastics Engineers and the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper industry.

He was an active member of the UV/EB curing industry’s committee that submitted its Food Contact Notification Application to the US FDA.

His undergraduate and Master’s degrees are from Yale University.

This food safety webinar will provide a detailed overview of pathogenic E. coli, their sources and dissemination routes, in addition to means of detection and control

Description
Why Should You Attend:

Recently a further strain of EHEC, E. coli O26, has been classed as an adulterant with consideration of other strains being added to the list.

Pathogenic E. coli can be categorized into 6 main groups with Enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC), such as the O157:H7 strain being the most significant. There are 73,000 cases of E. coli O157:H7 reported annually within the US each year. E. coli O157:H7 was identified as a food-borne pathogen in 1982 and since this time further EHEC strains have been implicated in food-borne illness. Previously, only E. coli O157:H7 was classed as an adulterant which essentially means that if the strain is found, the food product must be recalled then destroyed or diverted for further processing. The presence of E. coli O157:H7 in ground beef has led to some of the largest recalls in history and hence places a large financial burden on the industry.

Given that the pathogenic E. coli poised to become an even more significant pathogen to the food industry in the near future, this webinar will provide a detailed overview of pathogenic E. coli, their sources and dissemination routes, in addition to means of detection and control.

We will also review the regulations around pathogenic E. coli and future trends.

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

Evolution of different pathogen Escherichia coli.
Mode-of-illness and virulence factors.
Sources and epidemiology.
Food-borne illness outbreaks linked to pathogenic E. coli.
The emergence of non-O157 EHEC.
Diagnostics for pathogenic E. coli.
Regulations around pathogenic E. coli.
Learning Objectives:

Evolution of pathogenic E. coli including E. coli O157:H7 and other relevant EHEC strains
Mode by which different E. coli types cause illness
Sources and routes of dissemination
Diagnostic tests for pathogenic E. coli detection
Interventions to control pathogenic E. coli
Future trends
Who Will Benefit:

QA and QC Managers
Production Managers
Food Scientists and Technologists
Laboratory Managers
Food Safety Personnel
HACCP Coordinators
Government food inspectors
Sanitation Managers
Corporate and Plant Microbiologists
Processing Engineers
Operations Supervisors and Managers
Instructor Profile:
Dr. Keith Warriner, is currently an Associate Professor within the Department of Food Science at University of Guelph, Canada. Dr. Warriner received his BSc in Food Science from the University of Nottingham, UK and PhD in Microbial Physiology from the University College of Wales Aberystwyth, UK. He later went on to work on biosensors within the University of Manchester, UK and subsequently returned to the University of Nottingham to become a Research Fellow in Food Microbiology. He joined the Faculty of the University of Guelph in 2002.

During the last fifteen years in the field of microbiology and food safety research, Dr. Warriner has published more than 100 papers, book chapters, patents, and conference abstracts. He has broad research areas encompassing development of decontamination technologies, biosensors for biohazard detection, and more fundamental research on the interaction of human pathogens with plants. One notable research accomplishment was the development of a decontamination treatment for sanitizing seeds destined for sprout production and a further process based on Advanced Oxidation Process for inactivating pathogens on fresh produce. Current research in the area is focused on developing biocontrol strategies based on using a combination of antagonistic bacteria and bacteriophage to reduce levels of human pathogens at the primary production stage.

AXIGEN (www.axigen.com), the professional messaging solution vendor, is pleased to announce a free, live webinar entitled 'Taking the road to Virtualization', scheduled for May 25, 09:00 GMT and May 27, 16:00 GMT, 2010.

Join this 40 minute on-demand online event to learn:
- How to use virtualization to your full advantage as SMB or Service Provider.
- How to optimize your IT environment for significant cost-savings, improve service availability, security & management.

You will also have the chance to:
- Find out the best tips & tricks on messaging virtualization deployment strategies, virtual clusters, and building a virtual AXIGEN Mail Server environment.
- Get your questions answered (regarding virtualization & in-the-cloud messaging), during the live Q&A session.

Intended audience:
This event is mainly addressed to CIOs, network administrators, Business / IT professionals and decision makers looking to reap the full benefits of virtual messaging for their organization, whether this being a SMB, large-scale Service Provider, Hosting Provider or Telecom company etc.

How to register:
Attending this live webinar is free of charge, but the number of participants is limited. Make sure you book your seat now by registering here.

We look forward to having you at our webinar!

About Gecad Technologies and AXIGEN
Established in 2001, Gecad Technologies SA, ISO 9001:2008 certified, is the vendor of AXIGEN, a professional messaging solution, currently distributed by over 250 partners from 100 countries and managing email traffic for over 11,000 companies with 8 million end-users. For further details, please visit www.axigen.com

In today’s over-saturated self-storage market and rough economy, self-storage operators face a number of challenges when it comes to marketing their facilities. During this webinar, participants will learn how to decrease their marketing budget while increasing facility occupancy.
 
TOPICS WILL INCLUDE:

• Secrets to Internet Success
• Dominating Competitors Without Competing on Price
• Increasing the Value of Each Tenant

Why You Should Attend:
If you are interested in marketing strategies during these uncertain economic times, then you will benefit from attending thisMini-Storage Messenger Self-Storage Webinar. MiniCo's series of FREE, live webinars will provide valuable insight. The in-depth presentations will give you the industry insight to help you make sound business decisions regarding your self-storage future.

About our speakers:
Derek M. Naylor is the President of Storage Marketing Solutions (SMS). Over the past seven years, Derek has incrementally increased sales revenue for his clients more than $250 million through innovation and advanced marketing strategies. In 2003, he directed his talents and unique growth strategies exclusively to the self-storage industry and founded SMS. SMS now helps hundreds of operators from coast to coast to increase their occupancy and profits through the company’s unique Outsourced Marketing Director program and other tools. He is a regular contributor to industry magazines and a dynamic speaker at trade events. Derek lives in Pleasant View, Utah, with his wife and two daughters.