CUSAT Seminar

National Seminar on

9-12 March, 2016

Seafood Safety, Trade &

Management

Organized by

SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL FISHERIES Cochin University of Science & Technology

&University Grants Commission

Office Bearers (Organizing Committee)Chairman : Prof. Dr. A. Ramachandran, SIF, CUSAT.

Co-Chair : Prof. Dr. K.T. Thomson, SIF, CUSAT.: Prof. Dr. Saleena Mathew, SIF, CUSAT.

General Convenor : Dr. Shibu. A.V., Asst. Prof., SIF, CUSAT.Treasurer : Dr. M. Harikrishnan, Assoc. Prof. SIF, CUSAT.Convenors : Dr. John Mohan, Asst. Prof., SIF, CUSAT.

: Dr. Mini Sekharan, Asst. Prof., SIF, CUSAT.: Dr. S. Sabu, Asst. Prof., SIF, CUSAT.

Important Dates stEarly Bird Registration : 31 January 2016stSubmission of Abstract : 31 January 2016thLate Bird Registration : 15 February 2016thSubmission of Full Paper : 15 February 2016

th thDate of National Seminar : 9 to 12 March 2016

Registration fee:Indian Participant – Rs. 2000/- ; Student Participants: Rs. 1000/- and International participants – US D 250/-

Major Themest Country status in developing food safety standardst Emerging challenges in food safetyt Health benefits from food safety regulationst Formulation of regulatory practicest Benefits of food safety standards t Trade benefits of policies and regulationst Participatory approach in implementing food safetyt

The abstracts shall be prepared in the format of Elsevier

journals.

Registration can be done by sending the duly filled registration form

attached herewith to the following address along with the

registration fee.

Prof. Dr. A. Ramachandran, Chairman

(National Seminar on Seafood Safety, Trade & Management)

School of Industrial Fisheries, CUSAT, Fine Arts Avenue,

Cochin- 682 016, India. Mobile: +919447062400 ; Off: 04842354711

E-mail: [email protected]

www.cusat.ac.in

For further details contact

Chief Patron:

Hon'ble Chief Minister of Kerala Patrons:

Hon'ble Minister for Fisheries, Excise & Ports,Government of Kerala

Hon'ble Minister for Education,Government of Kerala

Hon'ble Minister for Health, Family Welfare and DevaswomGovernment of Kerala

Hon'ble Vice Chancellor, CUSAT

Sri. Oommen Chandy

Sri. K. Babu

Sri. P.K. Abdu Rabb

Sri. V.S Sivakumar

Dr. J. Letha

Thrust Areas

Accommodation and Hotel Reservation: On request, we will arrange hotel accommodation in standard or star hotels with tariffs ranging from US D 20 to 100 ( Rs. 1200 to 6300). Delegates who wish to avail the facility may send the duly filled in Hotel

threservation form with actual amount in advance before 15 February 2016 to the Convenor (E-mail: [email protected] ; Mobile: +91 9847233764)

Dr. W.S. Lakra Vice Chancellor & Director,CIFE (Deemed University), Mumbai

Smt. Mini Antony, IASDirector of Fisheries, Kerala

Dr. C.N. RavisankarDirector, CIFT, CochinDr. A. Gopalakrishnan

Director, CMFRI

National Advisory Committee

Sri. N. Ramesh, ITSDirector, MPEDA

Dr. S. GirijaDirector, NIFPHATT

Sri. R.C. SinhaDirector, CIFNET

Sri. Anwar HashimManaging Director,

Abad Fisheries Pvt. Ltd.

Members, Organizing Committee

Dr. T.V. Sankar, CIFT; Smt. Asha, C.P., MPEDA; Sri. Shaji, S.S., Smt. Saira Banu,Dept.Fisheries Kerala; Sri. Edwin Joseph, IFAA;

Dr. K. Ashok Kumar, CIFT; Sri. Jayapalan G.,EIA; Sri. Cherian Kurian, I n d u s t r y ; S r i . T . N . V e n u g o p a l , I n d u s t r y ;

Prof. Dr. S. Harikumar, CUSAT; Dr. Sanjeev, S., CIFT (Retd.);

Dr. Gipson Edapazham, SIF.

MPEDA;

The thrust areas are identified as

(1) Seafood Safety (a) Hazards – Physical, Chemical and Microbiological. (b) Safe seafood Handling, Preservation and Packaging.(c) Policies and practices in fish production and processing

systems(d) Safety issues in aquaculture production(e) Quality standards in major markets – harmonisation.

(2) Traceability (a) Policies and practices in food traceability. (b) Emerging issues in traceability.

(3) Trade and Management (a) Policies, regulations and practices in domestic trade.(b) Policies, regulations and practices in international trade.(c) Policies, regulations and practices in import of seafood

products

Food security is generally defined as a condition related to

supply of food and individuals' access to Food production

and supply and different dimensions to food security.

Supplying enough food to the population is a necessary

condition for ensuring adequate access for individuals. In

most countries, high food availability is associated with

relatively low prevalence of undernourishment. However,

outcome indicators show that high food availability does not

always guarantee high food security.

Today, the need for safe food is a major concern for man in

modern living. Food safety management gains importance

globally with such recurring incidents. It could be possible

that recurrence of threatening incidents can be effectively

prevented through professional safety management

practices from 'harvesting to table' to which global

community have focused their attention these days.

However, new emerging food borne threats make people

suffer, often cause high end mortalities. Therefore, food

safety issues have high priorities and significance today

when compared with situations decades ago. Inappropriate

food safety measures can affect the nutritional value of

seafood. If not properly produced, transported, stored or

prepared, seafood are prone to spoilage. Environmental

factors, such as pollution and poor ecosystem health may

also affect the nutritional value of seafood, particularly

through contamination. Awareness on Food safety

regulations, environmental laws, and effective quality

control can play an important role in minimizing the risks

associated with the consumption of unsafe seafood.

Food safety management includes all efforts of ensuring safety

standards right from primary food production in entire food

chain to end users. It includes integration of knowledge, skills,

attitudes and mind sets of various stake holders. The

management strategies like early warning of food borne illness,

expanded research, risk assessment, food inspection

protocols, and training and education campaigns help to

achieve well acclaimed objectives of food safety management

practices. Introduction of comprehensive preventive

management strategies at different levels of food chain like

HACCP also ensures food safety measures.

Fisheries sector contributes 1.4% of total Gross Domestic

Product of India. In spite of the growth in this sector, there is a

huge loss in the supply chain in seafood industry including fish

processing industry due to improper handling, processing,

transportation and quality assurance. Trained man power in this

sector would considerably able to reduce this loss. Realizing the

importance of trained manpower in sea food safety, School of

Industrial Fisheries started a new post graduate course in

Seafood Safety and Trade (2012). The School of Industrial

Fisheries was established in 1976 as the Department of

Industrial Fisheries under Cochin University for post graduate

teaching (M.Sc. Industrial Fisheries) and research on all aspects

of Fisheries Science and Technology. For the past 39 years, the

school has been engaged in manpower developing in various

facets of fisheries sector.

In the above context, the School is organizing a national

seminar on seafood safety, trade and management to provide a

platform for different stake holders to discuss and debate upon

the above issues in truly consultative and participatory mode.

Presentation of papersRenowned speakers will be presenting lead papers in different thrust areas. Participants who wish to contribute papers may submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations. The acceptance of papers for oral presentation will be based on the relevance and usefulness of the papers in fulfilling the objectives of the seminar.

National Seminar on

Seafood Safety, Trade & Management

School of Industrial Fisheries, CUSAT, Fine Arts Avenue,

Cochin- 682 016, India.

E-mail: [email protected]

Mobile: General Convenor: +91 8129511388

www.cusat.ac.in

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