2011 Food Safety Summit adds to Outstanding Conference Program

NEHA Offers Continuing Education Credits for Program

Mar. 4, 2011 (Marketwire) --

DEERFIELD, IL -- (Marketwire) -- 03/04/11 -- The Food Safety Summit announced a few exciting changes to the already stellar educational program, including the addition of a 4th workshop focused on HACCP, the approval on CE credits from NEHA and the addition of Dr. Robert Corrigan as a prominent speaker in the newly titled Pest Management session. The 13th annual Food Safety Summit will take place April 19-21 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC.

"Our educational advisory committee is on the front lines every day in the fight for food safety, and are always looking for the best ways to enhance the program for our attendees," said Emily Patten, Director of Tradeshows and Conferences for BNP Media, producers of The Food Safety Summit. "Having prominent speakers like Robert Corrigan and sessions on HACCP makes our program that much stronger and more worthwhile. We are also pleased to announce that The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) has approved 23.25 contact hours of continuing education credit for classes taken at The Food Safety Summit."

A well known name in the industry, Bobby Corrigan, Ph.D. 2011, Industrial Pest Management Specialist, RMC Pest Management Consulting from Richmond, IN will lead the session The New Thinking in Pest Management for Food Safety Systems. Dr. Corrigan is a part time consultant to the pest management and food industry and also serves as a part time scientist for The City of New York working on the war on rats. Prior to becoming a consultant, Bobby was a staff member of Purdue University's Department of Entomology for 16 years where he worked as a teacher and staff specialist in the Center for Urban Pest Management. Dr. Corrigan is the author and/or co-author of three textbooks on pest management, and has also published over 150 technical articles for a variety of magazines and Universities fact sheets. Dr. Corrigan was inducted into the Pest Management Hall of Fame in 2008.

In the session, Dr. Corrigan will address the heightened emphasis in food safety as a result of the Food Safety Enhancement Act as well as the significant outbreaks of food borne illness around the United States during the past several years. While each outbreak has been unique in profile, vermin-related causes and issues are usually an important part of the early considerations in diagnosing what may have gone wrong.