Application of Rapid Method in Food Processing Workshop

22 September 2016

One-day workshop on Application of Rapid Method in Food Processing was organized by VPHCAP, Chiang Mai University in collaboration with Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Japan on 22 September 2016 at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai University.

Foodborne disease is a major impact to public health worldwide. Most of all are caused by pathogenic bacteria and some of virus. Each country have developed food quality assurance and monitoring system referring the standard for food safety control (GMP/HACCP) and the requirement of trading partners. The most important step of food safety and quality control is microbiological analysis at critical control points in food chain. The conventional culture method usually time/labor-consuming, and may not response to business strategy that needed to be fats and worldwide. Development of technological innovation results alternative methods which can be used in parallel with the conventional standard method for more rapid, labor-saving, but remaining consistency and accuracy.

We had honors from Prof. Dr. Hisao Kurazono and Asst. Prof. Dr. Kayo Okumura from Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine and Asst. Prof. Dr. Duangporn Pichpol from Chiang Mai University to instruct the workshop and there were more than 20 participants including the 7th MVPH students attended the workshop.