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1550 Linden Drive
Microbial Sciences Building
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Madison, WI 53706
phone: 608-263-7777      fax: 608-263-1114      email: czuprync@svm.vetmed.wisc.edu
map to FRI at 1550 Linden Drive
Director: Charles Czuprynski
Associate Director: Kathleen Glass
What's New?
Sept. 25, 2008
 Communications/Newsletter: Fall 2008, Vol. 20, No. 3 (.pdf)   includes:
  • Director's Report (Czuprynski)
  • Perspective: Nutritional Epidemiology (Milkowski)
  • Faculty & Staff (Shin, Chmielewski, Milkowski)
  • Research (Yu, Pariza)
  • Short Subjects: International Visitors to FRI (Japanese delegation, Vyatka State University and Korov, Russia)
Sept. 2, 2008
 Announcing the next meeting in the FRI Focus on Food Safety Series:
Communications/Meeting: Sodium Reduction and Its Effect on Food Safety, Food Quality, and Human Health
This symposium will provide a comprehensive discussion on the need to balance sodium content in foods considering its effect on pathogenic and spoilage microbes, food quality and human health.
Target audience: food industry product developers, food safety specialists, and nutritionists (particularly manufacturers of processed meats, beverages, cheese, condiments, and other prepared refrigerated, frozen, and shelf-stable foods); researchers and clinicians in human nutrition/health; graduate and undergraduate students in food science and nutrition. See the current newsletter for a short description of the latest evidence for and against salt in the diet and in food:  Spring-Summer 2008, Vol. 20, No. 1-2
Date: Nov. 6, 2008 (all day)
Where: Pyle Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 702 Langdon Street, Madison, WI 53706
Download Meeting Brochure and Registration Form (.pdf);   register on-line ; Madison hotels list (.pdf)
Questions? or for more information contact Kathleen Glass, FRI Associate Director, kglass@wisc.edu  608-263-6935
Aug 25, 2008
 Announcement:  Fall 2008 FRESH (Food Research & Education Seminar Highlight) Seminar Series

Fall Semester 2008 Schedule (.pdf) from the Food Research Institute
Tuesdays, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. at the Microbial Sciences building (MSB; please note room number for specific dates),
UW–Madison, 1550 Linden Drive
Topics to be presented: [click links for pdf of presentation]
9/9: “Strategies to Identify Bioactive Food Compounds,” Veronika Somoza, Food Science, UW-Madison (room 6201MSB)
9/23: “Food Safety Systems and the Outbreak Response,” Steve Sobek, Director, Bureau of Laboratory Services, Wis. DATCP, and John Archer, Division of Public Health (room 2511 MSB)
10/7: “ ‘Naturally Cured’ Meat Products: Understanding the Regulations, Manufacturing, Quality and Safety,” Jeff Sindelar, Animal Science, UW-Madison (room 2511 MSB)
10/21: “Risk-based Regulation and Food Safety,” Lorna Zach, Center for Human Performance and Risk Analysis (CHPRA), Dept Industrial and Systems Engineering, UW-Madison (room 2511 MSB)
11/5 (Wednesday): “Application of Phytosanitary Measures in International Trade,” Mike Firko, APHIS, USDA (room 6201 MSB, Wednesday)
11/18: “Meeting the Needs of the Dairy Industry — CDR/FRI Roles and Responsibilities,” Rusty Bishop, Food Science, UW-Madison (room 2511 MSB)
12/2: “Creation of an Animal Vaccine for the Foodborne Parasite, Toxoplasma gondii,” Laura Knoll, Med Micro & Immunol., UW-Madison (room 6201 MSB)
Questions? or for more information contact Chuck Czuprynski, FRI Director, czuprync@svm.vetmed.wisc.edu  608-263-6826
July 31, 2008
 Communications/Newsletter: Spring-Summer 2008, Vol. 20, No. 1-2 (.pdf)   includes:
  • Director's Report (Pariza); FRI Vision (Czuprynski); FRI Strategic Plan (Glass)
  • Meeting Summary: Treatment and Disposal of Food Products Contaminated by Biological Threat Agents
  • Meeting Announcement and Description: Salt:  A Necessary Additive and a Health Concern
July 25, 2008
 In the News:  CLA approved as food ingredient,  FRI Faculty member and Director Emeritus Professor M. W. Pariza (UW-Madison News) (Pariza)
April 4, 2008
 Briefing: Destruction of H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus in Meat and Poultry Products  (.pdf)

Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in wild and domesticated birds have spread over a significant segment of the world area of Asia, Africa, and Europe. It is extremely important to learn how to mitigate the virus and its effect on the food chain and human health.

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