Horsegate – The Fallout from this Incident Conference & Exhibition
1 Day Events
22
Oct
The appearance of Horse DNA in meat products, ready meals and school food does show a sad affair on the value that consumers, food processors and retailers place on food in a society nowadays. Importantly, it also serves as an illustration of the risks inherent in placing too much reliance on an increasingly complex food supply chain to meet everybody needs.
This conference will shed some light on what lessons have been learnt and what changes need to made going forward to ensure that a repeat of such an incident hopefully does not occur again?
Programme for the day:
| 08.45 – 09.30: | Registration & Exhibition |
| 09.30 – 09.40: | Kathryn Gilbertson – Greenwoods Solicitors - Chairman’s Introduction |
| 09.40 – 10.10: | DEFRA |
| 10.10 – 10.40: | Ian Thomas – Regulatory Law Solicitors – “Learning lessons from horsemeat and other food crises – why do they happen, who is to blame and what can be done to prevent them?” |
| 10.40 – 10.50: | Panel Q & A |
| 10.50 – 11.20: | Break & Exhibition |
| 11.20 – 11.50: | Bill Wadsworth – Greggs plc |
| 11.50 – 12.20: | David Croft – Waitrose |
| 12.20 – 12.30: | Panel Q & A |
| 12.30 – 14.00: | Lunch & Exhibition |
| 14.00 – 14.30: | Barbara Wimmer – Eurofins, “Fighting Food Fraud using DNA-based methods” |
| 14.30 – 15.00: | Neil Griffths – SVA Ltd |
| 15.00 – 15.10: | Panel Q & A |
| 15.10: | Kathryn Gilbertson – Greenwoods Solicitors - Chairman’s Round Up |
