ICMSS2017 will be hosted by The Marine Institute, Galway, in association with Bord Iascaigh Mhara, The Food Safety Authority of Ireland, The Sea Fisheries Protection Authority, The Irish Shellfish Association and National University of Ireland in the Bailey Allen Hall in NUI Galway. This is the 11th conference in this series and offers an important multidisciplinary interface between regulatory, scientific and industrial representatives of the international molluscan food safety community. It is a biannual forum where unusual, emerging and novel shellfish risk factors are discussed, offering new information and solutions.
Ireland has a distinguished track record in the area of molluscan shellfish safety, in developing state of the art monitoring protocols, forecasting tools and a variety of cutting edge research activities. This is the second time the conference has been in Galway and we are pleased welcome old friends and new to our conference on this topic. ICMSS2017 will include keynote presentations from acclaimed international experts in the area. A series of workshops will be held in conjunction with the event on the 19th and 20th May. We encourage attendance from shellfish safety professionals and students including, microbiologists, toxin chemists, toxicologists, marine scientists, regulators, policy makers, food safety specialists, environmental health officials, engineers, environmental managers, academics and undergraduate and postgraduate students.
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