ELIZABETHTOWN, PA. — The American Association of Meat Processors (AAMP) announced a free food safety webinar open to anyone in the meat and poultry processing industry. The “Pre-Harvest Salmonella Monitoring to Improve Food Safety” webinar will be held on Oct. 25 at 2 p.m. ET.

Event speaker Nikki Shariat, associate professor at the University of Georgia, will cover complex populations of Salmonella. New technologies have shown that Salmonella occurs in pre-harvest meat production as mixed populations of multiple serotypes. The webinar looks to aid processors in identifying and characterizing the populations in order to understand serotype dynamics through production.

Shariat’s presentation will focus on broiler production as an example for how the Salmonella populations shift through production and processing.

Shariat earned her PhD in biological sciences from Vanderbilt University and began her career in food safety during her postdoctoral fellowship at Penn State. Before her current position at the University of Georgia, where she serves under the Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center in the Department of Population Health, Shariat held a faculty position at Gettysburg College for three years.

Registration can be found here.