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Save the date! Upcoming webinars

8/9/2018

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The following upcoming webinars will be available to all SRA members including:

Core Subjects of Risk Analysis Series
September 5: Solving Real Risk Problems & Issues with Willy Røed
October 3: Risk, Causation and Decision with Tony Cox

November 7: Inclusive Governance of Risk: The Incorporation of Stakeholders in Risk Management with Ortwin Renn

Other Webinars

September 12: Toward Safer Consumer Products: Exploring the Use of Multi-Criteria (MCDA) and Structured Decision Making (SDM) Approaches for Chemical Alternatives Analysis
October 24: Writing Guidelines for Risk Management: Lessons and Questions from 3 Examples


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Webinar: How do we write and promulgate domain-specific guidelines for analyses supporting risk management? Issues & arguments.

9/6/2017

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This webinar will explore seven interrelated questions. Participants are encouraged to come with their own arguments and ideas regarding these questions. 

1. How do we push the world as far as possible to a world where all analyses supporting risk management are of at least adequate quality?
2. How do we define "adequate quality"?
3. Where should guidelines come down on a continuum from "bright line" to "general guidance"?
4. How do w promote the concept of "Culture of Analysis Quality" in each domain?
5. Do we even want to use the word "enforce"? If not, then how do we best get the guideline complied with?
6. How should any guidelines be promulgated?
7. What is the best way to get these guidelines written?

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Advancing the Science Webinar Series 4th Installment: Preparing to Deliberate Evidence on Benefits and Risks Posed by the Microbiota of Milks

8/24/2017

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Wed, Aug 30, 2017 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM NZST
Wed, Aug 30, 2017 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM AEST

Scientific advances over the past decade are transforming our knowledge of the natural microbes of breast and bovine milks. Unexpected results from culture-independent studies of milk microbiomes are raising questions about assumptions of past risk analyses for breast milk banks, food safety regulators, and milk consumers around the world. In ‘milk wars’ around the world, the opposing positions are often stated as definitive beliefs for all time, not as evidence-based communications that merit further deliberation as science advances. Understandably, consumers around the world are confused by conflicting statements about benefits and risks in the media and from regulators.

Attendees will likely find surprises in the webinar, regarding the history of the ‘milk wars’ around the world, as well as assessments based on ‘top-down’ data and ‘bottom-up’ data. In the next phases of the joint RO project, frameworks for assessing and communicating benefits and risks using objective, unbiased evidence-based processes (e.g., evidence mapping, mental modeling) will be applied.

The webinar series is organized by partnering Regional Organizations (Australia, New England, New Zealand, and Upstate NY) of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) as the first of three phases of a project entitled Understanding Perceptions and Evidence of Benefits and Risks of Consuming Fresh Unprocessed (Certified Raw or Raw Drinking) Milk.
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Presenters
Peg Coleman is a medical microbiologist and microbial risk assessor who contributed to human health risk assessments for bacteria causing anthrax, campylobacteriosis, E. coli O157:H7 enterocolitis, listeriosis, salmonellosis, and tularemia. Peg is a former regulator (USDA/FSIS) and currently sole proprietor of Coleman Scientific Consulting. 

D. Warner North, Ph.D., is principal scientist of NorthWorks and author of the first formal microbial risk assessment for NASA in 1974 on potential growth of microbes on Mars. Warner was a member of the committee authoring the 1996 National Academies report, ‘Understanding Risk: Informing Decisions in a Democratic Society.' Dr. North has a long association with Stanford University, having served as a professor or faculty member from 1976 to 2009. 
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Advancing the Science Webinar Series: Microbiota Informing Next Generation (NextGen) Risks and Benefits

5/11/2017

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Bovine Milk Microbiota
Dr. Mark McGuire
University of Idaho, Associate Dean of Research & Director of Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station

Date and Time:
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2:30 pm PDT/5:30 pm EDT
Wed May 24th, 7:30 am AEDT (Sydney)
Wed May 24th, 9:30 am NZDT (Wellington)


Abstract
Through a variety of dairy products including fluid milk, cheese, yogurt, ice cream, and butter, bovine milk provides myriad essential nutrients to the human consumer. The dairy industry has great desire to produce the highest quality milk possible. Of particular concern in this regard are pathogenic bacteria that might lead to foodborne illness. Long-considered sterile unless produced by infected cows or contaminated via milking equipment, any milk containing bacteria has historically been considered a health risk to the consumer. However, the advent of culture-independent assessment of bacteria has confirmed that milk is not sterile, even when cows are healthy and the milking equipment is properly cleaned. Recent research sequencing 16S rRNA genes has clearly demonstrated that, like human milk, bovine milk is a rich source of a variety of different bacteria1. Evidence also exists that the bacterial communities in milk can differ among farms, suggesting that local environments may contribute to the relative abundance of particular bacteria. Some studies report microbiological indicators of milk quality and safety, including prevalence and levels of pathogens in bulk tank milk samples2 that are important inputs to microbial risk assessments. In conclusion, cow’s milk contains bacteria which may have no effect on consumer health, may be deleterious, or may impart health benefits (less studied). Additional interdisciplinary research is critically needed to understand the balance of risks and benefits.

Biographical sketch
Dr. Mark McGuire is a lactation physiologist with expertise in factors such as nutrition, endocrinology, and bacteria that affect milk synthesis and quality. Mark received his BS from the University of Illinois (1984), MS from the University of Florida (1987), and PhD from Cornell University (1994). He has been on faculty at the University of Idaho since 1995 and is a Professor in Lactation Biology. Mark served as Head of the Department of Animal and Veterinary Science from 2012 to 2015 before becoming the Interim Director of the Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences in August 2015. The interim status was removed in November 2016. Mark works closely with his wife, Dr. Michelle (Shelley) McGuire, studying both bovine and human lactation with particular interest in the health and safety of foods for human consumption. They recently released a book, edited with Dr. Lars Bode, titled Prebiotics and Probiotics in Human Milk; Origins and Functions of Milk-Borne Oligosaccharides and Bacteria, which directly addresses the most recent information about bacteria in human milk. Mark has published over 90 refereed papers and 8 book chapters and is an active member of the American Dairy Science Association, American Society for Nutrition, American Society for Microbiology, and the International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation. Mark and Shelley live in Moscow, Idaho.



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