Enhancing Guidance on Food Allergen Management: Precautionary Allergen Labelling
December 04, 2024

About the Webinar
Watch this on-demand webinar on newly proposed allergen management guidelines, developed in collaboration with food industry leaders, Université Laval, Canadian allergists, and Food Allergy Canada. These guidelines are designed to support food manufacturers in creating robust allergen control plans, promoting the responsible use of precautionary allergen labeling, and helping meet the needs of companies managing food allergies.
In this session, experts from Food Allergy Canada and Université Laval discussed the guidelines, share valuable resources for the food safety industry, and provide insights into creating safer food products.
What was covered:
- How effective allergen management can enhance consumer confidence in food label
- The role of risk assessment in allergen management and best practices for precautionary allergen labeling
- Updates on international allergen management standards and regulations (e.g., Codex Committee on Food Labelling)
About the Speakers
Dr. Samuel Godefroy – Full Professor, Food Risk Analysis and Regulatory Policies, Department of Food Science, Université Laval
Samuel Godefroy is the former Director General of Health Canada’s Food Directorate and a former Vice Chair of the FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission. Samuel is currently Full Professor in the Department of Food Science at Université Laval (Québec, Canada), where he leads the Food Risk Analysis and Regulatory Excellence Platform. He is also the Board President and a founding member of the Global Food Regulatory Science Society (GFoRSS).
Dr. Godefroy currently serves as a senior food science and regulatory expert on several advisory bodies and committees domestically and internationally, and as strategic and operational advisor to international food safety capacity building initiatives focused on regulatory enhancement, implemented by UNIDO and FAO.
Dr. Godefroy has authored over 80 scientific publications and book chapters and is an editorial board member for various scientific journals.
Samuel received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI). He holds degrees in Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Chemical Engineering from the same university and from the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris, France.
Dr. Silvia Dominguez – Research Associate, Université Laval
Dr. Dominguez is a food engineer specialized in food safety risk assessment, allergen management, statistical analysis and data modeling. She holds a MSc and a PhD in Food Science from Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA). After graduation, she worked as a food microbiologist for the food industry in the United States, before returning to research and consulting in 2016. She currently works as a research associate at the Food Risk Analysis and Regulatory Excellence Platform, hosted by the Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods (INAF) of Université Laval (Quebec, Canada), where she manages research projects on allergens and food fraud, industry outreach activities, and food safety capacity building initiatives for competent authorities at the international level.
Beatrice Povolo – Director, Food Safety & Regulatory Affairs, Food Allergy Canada
Beatrice is the Director of Food Safety & Regulatory Affairs at Food Allergy Canada. In this capacity, she leads the organization’s food safety initiatives working with both government and industry stakeholders, with a specific focus on access to accurate ingredient information in food labeling and foodservice. She is actively involved in international discussions related to allergen management as a member of the Health Canada delegation for the CODEX Committee on Food Labelling (CCFL) and collaborates internationally with other patient organizations globally. Beatrice has recently acted as the Project Management Lead for a multi-stakeholder initiative for the development of Allergen Management and Pre-cautionary Allergen Labelling Guidelines for the Canadian food industry. She graduated from the University of Toronto, with an Honours BA in political science and economics.
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