1508 - 2023 Georgia Seafood for the Future Workshop - Griffin, Georgia
2023 Georgia Seafood for the Future Workshop
Melton Building, 350 Woodruff Drive, Griffin, 30223
Because of consumer interest in robust health and strong immune systems, the role of seafood in diets has never been more important. Georgia seafood companies and research chefs can proactively fill that niche by tapping into existing resources and creating new networks of suppliers, providers and customers. In this half-day workshop, you will hear about seafood research and extension in Georgia and expand your food technology horizons. Our goal is to facilitate collaboration with like-minded professionals to help you envision new possibilities for creating safer, value-added, and/or more nutritious Georgia seafood products for the future.
AGENDA
8:30 Coffee and networking
9:00 Welcome and introductions, Tori Stivers, Seafood Specialist, UGA Marine Extension & Georgia Sea Grant
9:15 Current food safety research at UGA Center for Food Safety – Francisco Diez-Gonzalez, Director
9:30 Shellfish research and extension efforts - Tom Bliss, Director, UGA Marine Extension & Georgia Sea Grant Shellfish Lab, Skidaway Island
10:00 Break
10:15 Novel foods from Georgia jellyfish – Kevin Mis Solval, UGA SMART Food Processing Lab
10:30 How UGA Food Product & Innovation Center (PIC) can help expand your (sea)food business - Jim Gratzek, Director
10:50 Industry panel: Seafood packaging to extend shelf life (Christa Biggs, Aptar); High-pressure processing to kill pathogens & spoilage microbes & shuck molluscan shellfish (Bill Cook, Universal Pure); Sanitation/reducing microbial loads on fish with ozonated water/ice (Andy Rice or Dennis Harp, Quail Systems)
11:30 Networking lunch
12 – 12:45 PM Tour of Food PIC (and Sensory Evaluation Center if time permits and it’s available)