This one day conference will bring the key international, retailer and manufacturing industry experts together to drive a call to action and create solutions for controlling Listeria monocytogenes. The program will include understanding what Listeria monocytogenes is and recognising the problem, discussion on the current status of Listeria – who gets sick and why and what products are most affected. The day will have a focus on the latest research and exploring the new sciences and technology relating to Listeria monocytogenes and how to recognise the problem and prevent future cases.

Catherine Brown, Chief Executive Food Standards Agency will be the key note speaker discussing the role of the Food Standards Agency in the protection of consumer’s interest in relation to food safety. Dr Jim McLauchlin from Public Health England will explain who gets sick from foodborne listeriosis and why. Dr John Holah will focus on controlling Listeria in food manufacturing industry and a retail perspective on control Listeria will be supplied by Alec Kyriakides, Head of Product Quality at Sainsbury’s. We'll hear about research relating to the potential of biological control of Listeria monocytogenes in lightly preserved foods from Leatherhead’s Dr Paul Gibbs and closing the day Professor Haley Oliver from Purdue University USA will explain the progress in whole genome sequencing for understanding the relationship between environmental and foodborne outbreaks of Listeria monocytogenes.