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Session 1: Objective and Challenges for Salmonella Prevention – Control and tools applied in a primary production

• Bacteriological Study of Avian Salmonellosis (S. pullorum, S.gallinarum, S. enteritidis, S. typhimurium) in Latin America – Dr Horacio Terzolo
  
  
• Conclusions of the OIE Ad Hoc group on control and monitoring of Salmonella spp in poultry – Dr Angelo Berchieri
  
  
• The importance of digestive health and nutritional strategies to control Salmonella – Dr Filip Van Immerseel
  
  
• Management of pre-harvest and control measures: Importance and alternatives – Antonia Ricci
  
  
• Pathogenesis of egg contamination and risk factors for Salmonella transmission in laying hens – Dr Filip Van Immerseel
  
  
• Model of Salmonella live vaccine safety management programme – Dr Horacio Terzolo
  
  
• Model of Salmonella killed vaccine (bacterins) safety management programme – Dr Laura Villarreal
  
  
• Critical points and innovations in integrated pest control in poultry – Dr Margareth Dellatorre
  
  
• Basic premises for a monitoring and sampling plan program structure – Olga Vargas (Spanish only)
  
  
• Salmonella species of human health relevance (S. enteritidis and S. typhimurium): Prevention and control programmes – Dr Oscar de Jesús García Suárez

Session 2: Safety, Control Tools and Prevention in Production and Processing of Poultry Meat and Eggs

• Scientific and Technical Factors Affecting the Setting of Salmonella Criteria for Raw Poultry: A Global Perspective – Dr Geoffrey Mead
  
  
• Minimization of Salmonella Contamination on Raw Poultry and Feasibility of Implementation by Industry – Dr John Cason
  
  
• European perspective on methods to remove surface contamination from products of animal origin as a tool in the microbiological risk assessment – Dr Luppo Ellerbroek
  
  
• Using water washing systems evisceration lines of risk mitigation: Mechanism of action and physiological aspects, application criteria and regulatory aspects – Dr Roland Kranen
  
  
• Alternative technologies application for risk mitigation in the contamination of carcasses – Jackson McReynolds
  
  
• HACCP model in egg production and traceability methods and systems applied – Enrique Delgado Suárez
  
  
• Salmonella in poultry products: Challenges in food safety and requirements for international trade – Vladimir Pinheiro (Spanish only)

Session III: Diagnostics

• Using molecular biology in the diagnosis of Salmonella: Future prospects – Dr Antonia Ricci
  
  
• Current perspectives and failures in the diagnostic of Salmonella antigen: recognition of the importance of circulating serotypes, emerging and exotic – Dr Dalia dos Prazeres Rodrigues (Portuguese only)

Session IV: Epidemiology and Public Health

• Testing Poultry Meat for Salmonella: Making Test Results More Relevant to Risk – Dr John Cason
  
  
• Web tool programme of JEMRA: Risk assessment of Salmonella and Campylobacter in poultry meat – Gregory Paoli
  
  
• Antimicrobial Resistance: PAHO Project for Latin America and Caribbean – Dr Pilar Donado
  
  
• Support and liability of IICA for structuring risk analysis programmes in Latin America and Caribbean – Dr Marcos Sánchez
  
  
• Coordination of dynamic and strategies between private and official sectors on prevention, control and/or eradication of poultry diseases in Central America with emphasis on Avian Salmonellosis – Dr Ernesto Calderón Monterrosa
  
  
• Application of molecular methods for Salmonella tracking and its application for epidemiologic investigation on poultry chain and traceback in humans outbreaks – Dr George Tice
  
  
• Epidemiological investigation of salmonelosis in humans cases and outbreaks and the importance of the food chain integrated database – Dr Antonio Carlos Campos Pignatari
  
  
• Epidemiologic trends of the prevalence serovars in poultry production chain and database strains model applied in Brazil – Dr Josinete Freitas
  
  
• Profile cases of human Salmonellosis in Brazil – Dr Greice Madelaine
  
  
• Prevalence of Salmonella spp. and antimicrobial resistance of isolates in frozen chicken carcasses at retail in Brazil 2004 to 2006 – Dr Marcelo Augusto Nunes Medeiros