Listeria - the full story: Understanding, controlling, and preventing the silent threat in food safety
16 September 2025
Member: £130 + VAT / Non-member: £170 + VAT
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Summary
Join us for an insightful event exploring how to understand and tackle Listeria risks across the food chain — from good manufacturing and food processing practices to effective cleaning strategies and retail perspectives. We'll dive into outbreak and recall management, public health impact, and a real-world case study showcasing fast and insightful detection methods such as pathogen mapping and environmental monitoring expertise.
Who should attend
Designed for decision-makers across the food production chain – because Listeria management is everyone's business.
Event Director
Fiona Cawkell
Provisional programme
| Time | Presentation |
|---|---|
| 09:00 | Registration and arrival refreshments |
| 09:30 | Welcome and Chairperson's introduction |
| 10:10 | Outbreak management and impact to public health Anais Painset, UKHSA |
| 10:50 | Refreshment break |
| 11:10 | Control of Listeria through formulation and process Jeff Banks, Managing Consultant, Food Safety Assurance |
| 11:50 | How can we optimise source tracking for L. monocytogenes Lina Otero, bioMérieux |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 13:20 | Tracking Listeria through food production premises plus biocide antibiotic tolerances This presentation will share the challenges with Listeria management from a retailer point of view, including the importance of approving and managing a strong base of partner suppliers, detailing how Listeria specifications are set, how results are monitored and out of specification results and incidents managed. Sarah will also share some of the Co-op’s next steps as part of the ever-evolving challenge to maintain product safety. Sarah Dickinson, Co-op Group |
| 14:00 | Refreshment break |
| 14:20 | Tracking Listeria through food production premises plus biocide antibiotic tolerances Josh MacLeod, Cardiff Metropolitan University |
| 15:00 | What kills Listeria and how do you remove it? “Managing Listeria through active hygiene”. This presentation will highlight strategic methods of decontaminating high hygiene areas through the effective use of cleaning agents as part of a 5 point control plan to manage Listeria. David Childs, Kersia UK |
| 15:40 | Close |
Speakers profiles coming soon
Please note copies of the presentations will not be available on the day but a recording of the event will be made available within a few days of the event for registered delegates.