8:30 – 5:45p

• USG-Flour Supplier 
• Commodity Testing/Method Development
• USG-LNS Suppliers 
• USG/USAID/AMS Procurement/USAID/FAS

1. 8:30-11:00 SCP Suppliers/USG –Flour Suppliers, Dan Webber, Nick Kharabadze, Dianna Darsney, Elizabeth Bontrager, Tracy O’Heir, Dina Aburmishan, Claudia Maher, Jamie Fisher, Ruffo Perez

2. 11: 30 -1:00 FGIS/USAID/WFP-Tom Weber, Tandace Bell, Ruffo Perez, Dan Webber, Jamie Fisher, Elizabeth Bontrager, Dina Aburmishan, Nick Kharabadze, Dianna Darsney, Tracy O’Heir, Claudia Maher
    
3. 2:00 – 4:00 USAID/WFP – LNS Suppliers, Jamie Fisher, Prince Boateng, Dina Aburmishan, Dianna Darsney, Elizabeth Bontrager, Ruffo Perez, Nick Kharabadze, Tracy O’Heir, Claudia Maher

4. 4:10 – 5:45 USG/AMS Procurement/USAID/FAS- Dan Webber, Nick Kharabadze, Dianna Darsney, Elizabeth Bontrager, Tracy O’Heir, Dina Aburmishan, Jamie Fisher, Ruffo Perez

Tuesday June 4, 2024,         

Supply Chain, Programming, and Commodity Testing

8:10-8:30

Opening Remarks 

Dianna Darsney De Salcedo, AtA USAID/BHA Front Office

Wesley Harris, International Commodity Procurement Division Director USDA

8:30 – 9:00

Linking Supply Chain business processes to minimize losses and deliver fit-for-human consumption foods to recipients.

The WFP Bangladesh Case Study.  

Claudia MAHER/ Deblina SARKAR WFP         

9:00 – 9:30

Commodity Incident Management: the cost of commodity and supply chain incidents

Davor JANJATOVIC and Michael Curcio (USAID).

Reporting on major 2023 commodity and supply chain incidents

The economics of food losses; continuous Improvement opportunities

9:30 – 10:20

USAID-WFP Ongoing Infestation and food safety management efforts, trialing, piloting solutions (Grain Cocoons, Oil and Flours) 

Carole Manceau, WFP Packaging Expert, Food safety and quality unit Supply Chain division

Diego Lara Lavarreda, GrainPRO Vice-President, US/ Canada & Europe Division

Steven A Mihm, Senior VP – Purchasing, Reynolds Services, Inc

10:20 – 10:30                   Morning Coffee/Tea Break -Provided

10:30 – 11:30

GMO food labeling guideline, FDA (2019 FDA OMB Control No. 0910-0807)

Miriam J. Guggenheim, Covington & Burling LLC, Washington DC

Lakshmanan Ramamoorthi, Ph.D., Scientific Policy Advisor, Biotechnology Regulatory Services-APHIS, USDA

11:30 – 12:10

Commodity Testing and Method Validation Workstreams -20 min each, 10 min discussion

Tandace A. Bell, Chief, Biotechnology and Analytical Services Branch, FGIS

Thomas A. Weber, Chief, Analytical Chemistry Branch, FGIS

1:10 – 1:50

Packaging Infestation Resilience Project

Deanna S. Scheff, USDA Research Entomologist Agricultural Research Service

1:50 – 2:30

Hermetic Packaging Integrity Testing 

Bill Burnard

INFICON Inc.- Package Integrity

2:30 – 4:00

Environmental Sustainability in Food Assistance: We All Have a Role.

A panel, moderated by Greg Rulifson, Senior Humanitarian Sustainability Advisor. U.S. AID/ Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance

• Jennifer Phillips, Director of Operations - Edesia Nutrition
• Evan Sieradzki, Co-Lead AIM for Climate - USDA
• Shelee Padgett, Director of Emerging Markets - Sorghum Checkoff

4:00 – 4:15                   Afternoon Coffee/Networking -Tea Break Provided

4:15 – 5:40

Supply Chain as a Supporting Platform for the Effective Programming of Food Assistance.

Moderated by Ruffo Perez

Jamie Fisher, Director, Supply Chain Management, USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance 

Nikita Chandaria, Co-CEO, Ariel Foods, FZE

Dan Webber, Division Chief, Packaged Commodity Procurement Branch, USDA/AMS Commodity Procurement Program

Elizabeth Bontrager, Team Led, BHA/TPQ Nutrition

Claudia MAHER, WFP Food Safety and Quality Officer 

Nick Kharabadze, USDA/FAS Director International Food Assistance Division

5:40 – 5:50 

Wrap up of Second Day

     Ruffo Perez, (BHA/TPQ/PHN) and Quentin Jonhson, Quican Inc.

6:30 – 9:00pm -Group Dinner (pay your own) 

at Crust Brewing Restaurant. 

5500 Park PI, Rosemont IL 60018

Wednesday June 5, 2024,    

Commodity Fumigation, Pest-management, Warehousing and Supplier Auditing  

8:05 – 8:10

Setting the scene/ Expectation of third Day of Meeting

      USG/ Ruffo Perez and Quentin Jonhson

8:10 – 9:00

USDA/USAID Commody Credit Corporation Initiative -Update

Kathryn V. Oberholzer

Team Lead, Front Office Management, and Integration Team (FO MIT) USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/BHA)

9:00 – 9:40

The Scaling Up of Fortified Rice:  A panel discussion

Fortified Rice/Kernel Field Trial Progress Report: Testing and Specification Updates - Deblina SARKAR 

9:40-10:10

The USA Rice Federation

Sarah Moran, Chief Operating Officer. Supporting the USA Rice Industry’s involvement in the USAID BHA and McGovern-Dole Food Assistance Programs

10:10 – 10:20                   Morning Coffee/Tea Break -Provided

10:20–11:00

Systematic Preventive Food Safety and Quality Management:  The HACCP Approach

Rohan V. Tikekar, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Extension Specialist

University of Maryland, Department of Nutrition and Food Science

11:00– 11:40

Lipid-Based Nutritional Supplements Key Performance Indicators Project

Juan Andrade Laborde, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Global Nutrition.  Food Science and Human Nutrition Department, University of Florida

11:40 – 12:10

ICM’s Feed Optimization Technology

Chris Gerken, Ph.D. Principal Scientist, ICM Inc.

12:10-12:40

Statistical Process Control Applicable to Food Aid 

Nicholas Vena

Pearl Auditing Services, DBA Pearl International

1:40 – 2:10

Suppliers Auditing Process, including warehouse Auditing, USDA/AMS

Carrie Sayasithsena, Audit Program Coordinator, Audit Services Branch 

Jennifer Dougherty, Chief, Audit Services Branch USDA-AMS-SCP-SCI

2:10 – 2:30

WFP Perspective on food losses and related liabilities

Amit WADHERA, WFP Loss Prevention and Risk Mitigation

2:30 – 3:00

Quality Control Commodity Release SOP, including Packaging Integrity

Ruffo Perez, Senior Food Technology Advisor, BHA/TPQ

David Silver, Director of Accounting & Finance: The Didion Milling Case Study 

3:00 – 3:30

Food and Environmental Contaminants of relevance to Food Assistance Programs (Rice, LNS, Oil, Grains, and Flours)

Ruffo Perez, Senior Food Technology Advisor, BHA/TPQ

3:30 – 4:00

The North American Millers’ Association (NAMA)

Kim Cooper, Vice President, Government Affairs.  North American Millers' Association

4:00 – 4:10      Afternoon Coffee/Tea Break

4:10 -5:30

Flash-card Session.

• Commodity Waivers
• USDA/AMS Procurement
• The Last Mile Challenges
• Fit-for-human consumption concept.

1. Nicholas Kharabadze, USDA/FAS
2. Dan Webber, USDA/AMS
3. Jamie Fisher, USAID/SCM
4. Ruffo Perez, USAID/TPQ
5. Amit WADHERA, WFP

5:30 – 5:40

Wrap up of Third Day

Ruffo Perez, (BHA/TPQ/PHN) and Quentin Jonhson, Quican Inc.

8:00 -1:00pm

Group 1: Bus departs hotel at 8:00am Arriving at Henry Broch Foods by 9:00am, and leaving site by 11:30 and back to hotel by 1:00pm

Coordinated by Ruffo Perez, USAID/BHA/TPQ

3600 Sunset Ave, Waukegan, IL 60087 Henry Broch Foods

8:00 – 3:00pm

Group 2: Bus departs hotel at 8:00am Arriving at Incobrasa Industries Ltd by 10:00am, and leaving site by 1:00pm, and back to hotel by 3:00pm

Coordinated by Dan Webber, USDA/AMS

540 US-24, Gilman, IL 60938 Incobrasa Industry Ltd