Past Events

ENHANCEMENT OF CHILEAN FRESH FRUIT TRADE OPERATIONS
Date: Friday, October 27, 2006
Time: 8:00 – 11:00 am
Location: Chilean and American Chamber of Commerce
200 South Broad Street, Suite 700
Philadelphia, PA 19102

We are pleased to invite you and your colleagues to our annual Fall Workshop “Enhancement of Chilean Fresh Fruit Trade Operations”. The workshop will include a variety of relevant discussions surrounding new issues and regulations related to the import of Chilean fruit into the ports along the Delaware River. Our panel of specialists will discuss the USFDA’s workplan and initiatives expected in the coming year. The presentations will include fumigation and cold treatments, updatedfood security information, guidelines for regulating wood packing material in international trade, FDA import operations and new initiatives. One of our USFDA panelists will present a new food defense initiative called “ALERT”. This new initiative will highlight what the fresh produce industry can do to assure safety of the foods you produce, manufacture, transport, warehouse, distribute and sell.

Panelists Confirmed:

T. David Farmer, Officer in Charge, USDA/APHIS/PPQ
Hal Fingerman, Chief of Agriculture Operations, Department
of Homeland Security U.S., Customs and Border
Protection
Bill Madara, Assistant Officer in Charge, USDA Agricultural
Marketing Services, Fresh Produce Branch
Colleen Kitzmiller, State Plant Health Director, USDA, APHIS, PPQ
Ottavio Parenti, Supervisory Investigator, Import Program
Manager, Food and Drug Administration
Anitra Brown-Reed, Public Affairs Specialist, Philadelphia District
CER, Food and Drug Administration
David A. Holzworth, Esq., Chilean Exporters’ Association

Thanks to our sponsors:
Consulate of Chile
Delaware River Stevedores
Philadelphia Regional Port Authority
Port of Wilmington and Diamond State Port Corporation
Western Fumigation

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