Institute For The Future

How can we ensure food safety in an increasingly complex, connected global food web? What new food safety opportunities and vulnerabilities will emerging technologies create? How will the world’s diverse policy and regulatory bodies work together, or not, to keep our food safe? And how does food safety relate to changing values around sustainability, health, authenticity, and social responsibility? In short, what’s the future of food safety?

Join Institute for the Future’s first ever Global Food Outlook virtual exchange on Wednesday, March 27, 2013 from 8—9:30 a.m. PST/11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EST, where we will be addressing this exact issue. Our virtual exchanges offer an exciting new way to connect with IFTF’s futures research. In these exchanges, IFTF researchers and featured expert guests will use WebEx to present and discuss futures both likely and surprising, as well as field questions from virtual exchange participants from around the world. To sign up please go to our eventbrite link: http://gfoexchange.eventbrite.com

This exchange, the first of three for GFO this year, will tackle this pressing question of food safety. In it, GFO Co-Director Miriam Lueck Avery will lead a discussion of emerging issues and possibilities featuring two food scientists, Tejas Bhatt and Lesley Chesson. These experts each bring a unique perspective to the issue of food safety.

Tejas manages the Food Safety Programs at the Institute of Food Technologists, closely tracking the implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act in the US as well as emerging technologies to support food safety and defense in a globalized food system.   Lesley’s work addresses, among many other things,  how consumers and citizens can engage with the complexity and obscurity of food's origins and safety. She’ll discuss the potential to arm consumers with tools to become the safety inspectors of their own food, using emerging technology to verify the origins and authenticity of the food they eat. 

Miriam will then open the conversation up to WebEx participants from around the globe.

Don’t miss this chance to connect to IFTF research. Registration link: http://gfoexchange.eventbrite.com  (WebEx login instructions included). If you have any questions, contact Neela. 

If you have any questions regarding our Global Food Outlook Program, please contact Dawn Alva.