Global Minor Use Summit

Commonwealth Hall D - Wednesday, August 24th, DAY 1

Time	Chair		Speaker		Affiliation		Topic or Activity
Wednesday Morning
8:25 – 8:30		Chair		Phil – housekeeping and brief introduction (regulatory and public perception)
		Phil Brindle		World Population Clock
8:30 – 9:20				Dan Kunkel		IR-4		Award Presentation and Harmonized Approaches to Crop Protection for Minor Uses: Past, Present & Future
9:20 - 9:45				Peter Chan		PMRA		Evidence-based Initiatives for MRL Alignment
9:45 – 10:10				John Pwamang		EPA, Ghana		Pesticide Registrations in Ghana
10:10 - 10:30				Intermission - Coffee Break
10:30 - 10:55				Angelo Moretto		University of Milano		Establishing Tox end-points for Human Risk Assessment: Challenges and Opportunities
10:55 - 11:20				Alma Tovar		COFEPRIS		Regulation of Pesticides in Mexico
11:20 - 11:45				Janet Cowins		HED-EPA		Farm to table: Pesticides Residues in Food and Risk Assessment
11:45 – 12:15				Phil Brindle		BASF		Consumers’ expectations of pesticide residues in our food
12:10 - 1:25				Lunch
Wednesday Afternoon
1:25 – 1:30				Heidi – introduction
1:30 – 1:55		Heidi		Lois Rossi		Rossi Consultants		Regulatory Harmonization: Is It Possible?
1:55 – 2:20				Gord Kurbis		Pulse Canada		Need for Pesticides for Pulse Growers
2:20 – 2:45				Jim Cranney		CA Citrus Quality Council		Challenges and Opportunities for California Citrus Exports
2:45 – 3:10				Dan Botts		FL Fruit & Veg Assoc.		Market Place Considerations: The Importance of Harmonized MRLs
3:1- - 3:30				Intermission – coffee break
3:30 – 3:55				Monika Richter		BASF		Plant Protection Products Regulations in the EU an Overview
3:55 – 4:20				Josefina Ramirez		Syngenta Mexico		Purpose and aim of the new maximum residue limit (MRL) regulation in Mexico
4:20 – 4:45				May Yeung		University of Saskatchewan		Opportunities to mitigate trade uncertainties related to MRLs
4:45 - 5:10				Heidi Irrig		Syngenta		Weighing Benefits Versus Risk of Pesticides in Addressing Food Needs
5:10				Adjourn

Commonwealth Hall B - August 25, Thursday, DAY 2

Time	Chair		Speaker		Affiliation		Topic or Activity
Thursday Morning
8:25 – 8:30		Carmen Tiu		Carmen - Where We Are After Day 1
8:30 – 8:55				Chris Peterson		USDA-FAS		Why Investing in International Regulations and Standards Matter
8:55 – 9:20				Ron Williams		Coca Cola		Business of MRLs: A Food And Beverage Industry Perspective
9:20 - 9:45				Heidi Irrig		Syngenta		Addressing Food Waste in the World with Pesticides
9:45 – 10:10				Jennifer Maloney		Bayer Crop Science		Retailers’ secondary standards: What they are and why they exist
10:10 – 10:30				Intermission - Coffee Break
10:30 – 10:55				John Wise		Michigan State University		Strategies to meet export maximum residue limits for Michigan apples and cherries
10:55 – 11:20				Spencer Walse		Research Chemist, USDA-ARS		Contemporary MRL issues for California specialty crops: things that make you go hmm?
11:20 - 11:45				Sitra Abubeker		USDA AMS, S&T		Monitoring pesticide residues at the federal level
11:45 – 11:50				Concluding remarks
11:50 – 1:15				Lunch
1:15 – 1:20				Carmen – introduction
1:20 – 1:45				Charlotte Liang		USDA FDA		FDA Pesticide Monitoring Program
1:45 – 2:10				Cheryl Cleveland		CL America		Digest of dietary exposure methodologies in support of global MRLs
2:10 -2:35				Jane Stewart		CL International		Acute Risk Assessment Trends in EU; a Case of Compounded Conservatism
2:35 – 3:00				Arpad Szarka		Syngenta		Comparison of Pesticide Data Program and Registrant-Generated Residue Data
3:00 – 3:25				Carmen Tiu		DAS		Harmonizing Pesticide Assessments to Allow for Free and Open Trade
3:25 -3:30				Concluding remarks