Thursday 18 April 2024 | 09:00 - 17:30 | Ghent, Belgium

UNISTOCK Europe Workshop

Salmonella prevention and control:

Challenges and solutions for Agri terminal operators

Panoramic Room of the North Sea Port Visitor Centre, Rigakaai 1, 9000 Ghent (Belgium)

AGENDA

09:00 - 09.15: Welcome and introduction of UNISTOCK Europe

09:15 - 10:00: How Salmonella prevention and treatment is done in non-EU exporting Countries (Brazil and Argentina)

ECOTEC fumigation and KEMIN Industries

Guilherme Siqueira, Commercial manager Brazilian Branch, ECOTEC Fumigation

Andrei Dall’Agnol, Engineer responsible for Paranaguá Port office, ECOTEC Fumigation

Tom Verleyen, Marketing Director Animal Nutrition and Health EMEA, KEMIN Industries

10:00 - 10:45: Feed hygiene, feed ingredients decontamination and surrounding topics (including details on their specific machinery and global control plans approach)

VITALAC

Alexandre Cuellar, General Manager VITALAC Biotech

Coffee break/networking (30 minutes)

11:15 - 11.45: Whole Genomic Sequencing

Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR)

Greetje Castelijn, Project Lead Bacteriology

11:45 - 13:00: How national official control policies on Salmonella in feed materials and compound feed affect the operators, and how to comply

FEFAC, FEDIOL, and UNISTOCK

Evelien Mortaignie, Policy advisor on Food Safety and Quality, and Crisis Management, BFA (member of FEFAC)

Dr. Thomas Schmidt, Feed and Animal Nutrition Consultant, Ovid (member of FEDIOL)

Alfredo Corujo Fernández, Director, MASTERLAB - Trouw Nutrition (expert nominated by UNISTOCK)

13:00 - 13.15: Presentation of the North Sea Port

Sandra De Mey, Commercial Manager

Lunch break (1 hour)

14:15 - 17:30: Boat trip in the North Sea port and return to Euro-Silo for a technical visit and presentation by Managing Director Frank Peeters

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Registrations are now CLOSED! The participation fee includes:

  • Participation in all sessions of the workshop.

  • Speakers presentations after the event and available upon request.

  • Coffee breaks.

  • Lunch (please see additional details on the event’s registration page).

  • Boat trip around the North Sea port

  • Technical visit to Euro-Silo (transfer back to the North Sea Port is also included).

Participants are informed that a photographer will be present during the event. Videos and photos shot throughout the day will be used for promotional purposes on UNISTOCK’s website and its social media channels. In case you are not comfortable with being filmed or photographed, please reach out to hello@becreativecomms.com.

REGISTRATIONS WILL CLOSE ON 11 APRIL, AT MIDNIGHT (CET).