There's a lack of basic scientific understanding regarding how water can adversely affect food safety -- and a lack of political will to devise the uniform safety regulations needed for water used in food production, processing, packaging, transport, and marketing. So said debaters of the policy paper Water as an Essential Element in Food Safety, by Robert E. Brackett, Vice President of the Illinois Institute of Technology, and Director of the Institute for Food Safety and Health, Bedford Park, Illinois, U.S. Dr. Brackett defended his paper at the ISGP conference Food Safety, Security, and Defense: Focus on Food and Water, convened Oct. 20-23, 2013, in partnership the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, U.S.
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It’s a straightforward equation: Rising temperatures plus rising seas equals greater risk of coastal damage, both to the environment and to properties. Scientists need to do a better job of communicating this risk, and coastal residents and governments need to do a better job of planning for it, said the debaters of the paper New Jersey Shore’s Future: Coping with Climate Change and Storm Risk, by Dr. Thomas Knutson, Research Meteorologist, Climate Dynamics and Prediction Group, Geophysical Fluids Dynamics Lab, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Dr. Knutson's paper was part of the ISGP conference The Shore's Future: Living with Storms & Sea Level Rise, convened Nov. 20-21, 2015, in Toms River, New Jersey.
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Genomic science could be a safe and effective way to increase global food security -- if the problems of inconsistent regulation and lack of public acceptance can be addressed. So said the debaters of the paper Genomic Sciences for Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition, by Dr. Roger N. Beachy, professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., and Executive Director of the Global Institute for Food Security at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Dr. Beachy's paper was debated at the ISGP conference Science and Governance: Focus on the Genomic Revolution, convened Sept. 6, 2013, in partnership with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, within the Houses of Parliament, London, United Kingdom.
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Although few cases make the news, foodborne illnesses impose a major national financial burden each year, and greater focus is needed on prevention efforts, says Dr. Jørgen Schlundt, of the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, in his policy position paper The Use of Farm-to-Fork Surveillance and New Genome Sequencing Techniques to Prevent and Control Foodborne Disease Globally .
Dr. Schlundt's paper was debated at the ISPG conference Emerging and Persistent Infectious Diseases: Focus on Prevention, convened in San Diego, California, United States, on June 5–8, 2011.
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Reducing food waste and implementing industrial agriculture might be viable solutions to food security problems in regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa. This discussion of possible solutions to food security challenges in remote regions is based on the debate of a paper by Prof. Linus Opara of Stellenbosch University, South Africa, entitled Postharvest Technologies for Food Security and Safety: Linking Knowledge, Infrastructure and Policy. Prof. Opara's policy paper was one of seven debated at the ISGP conference Food Safety, Security, and Defense: Focus on Technologies and Innovations, convened in Verona, Italy, in April 2013.
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Predicting the next pandemic influenza might require novel strategies since it can be hard to "know what we already know" about this annual affliction. Learn more in this podcast summarizing the debate of the paper It’s Not What You Know, But What You Do With What You Know by Dr. Ilaria Capua, D.V.M., Ph.D., Director of the Research Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences at the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Italy.
Dr. Capua's paper was debated at the ISGP conference Emerging and Persistent Infectious Diseases: Focus on Mitigation, convened in partnership with the University of Edinburgh in October 2011.
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Why do climate science and communication seem to be in a constant battle with one another? Climate-model uncertainty is part of the reason, posing a significant challenge to effective science communication. Why climate models are inherently uncertain, and strategies for explaining this uncertainty to the public and policy makers were discussed in the debate of a paper by Mr. Keith Dixon, research meteorologist for the Climate Impacts and Extremes Group at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab, Princeton, N.J., U.S. Mr. Dixon’s paper, From Global Climate Perspectives to Regional Planning: Matching What Science Can Supply with Decision Maker Demands, was debated in February 2015, in Tucson, Arizona, at the conference Living with Less Water.
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Synthetic biology gives us the tools to better understand pathogens and mitigate their spread, but not without introducing potential threats to biosafety. The pros, cons and needed regulations of genetic manipulation were the subject of the debate of the ISGP policy position paper “Synthetic Biology and Infectious Disease: Challenges and Opportunities” by Dr. Bruce Hay, Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology. The paper was debated at the ISGP conference Emerging and Persistent Infectious Diseases: Focus on Prevention, convened in June 2011, in San Diego, California, U.S.
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It’s one thing to set quality standards for agricultural water; it’s another to implement them. The struggle of small farmers to comply with U.S. regulations designed to prevent foodborne illnesses is explored in the debate of Dr. Edward Atwill’s paper “Opportunities and Threats to Widespread Adoption of Bacterial Standards for Agricultural Water,” held at the ISPG conference “Food Safety, Security, and Defense: Focus on Food and Water,” October 2013 at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S. Dr. Atwill is Director of the Western Institute for Food Safety and Security at the University of California Davis’ School of Veterinary Medicine.
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