Iwaspoisoned.com founder, Patrick Quade is grateful to have participated in the Conference for Food Protection on April 15th, 2021. The conference, centered around "The Impact of New Food Technologies and New Foods on the Food Safety Professional," provided an enriching platform for us to delve into the evolving landscape of food safety in the context of emerging technologies.
Iwaspoisoned.com had the opportunity to participate in the American Frozen Food Institute Conference in San Diego, CA, on November 19th, 2019. This conference, focusing on the latest trends and developments within the frozen food sector, presented an invaluable platform for us at Iwaspoisoned.com to engage with industry leaders and delve into relevant discussions about food safety in the context of frozen foods.
Attending the Illinois Environmental Health Association Conference in Oglesby, IL, on November 5th, 2019, was an enriching experience for us at Iwaspoisoned.com. This event, dedicated to environmental health, offered a unique perspective on the intersection of public health and environmental factors, particularly in the context of food safety. The gathering was a vibrant forum for sharing knowledge and practices among environmental health professionals. It provided an ideal backdrop for us to discuss the role of consumer reporting in identifying and managing environmental health risks related to food safety. Our platform's approach to leveraging user-generated data resonated with the event's focus on innovative strategies in environmental health management.
Patrick Quade, founder of IWasPoisoned.com and DineSafe.org recently was a featured speaker at the 2019 Central Atlantic States Association of Dairy Food and Drug Officials (CASA) in their Baltimore conference held on Sept 17 where he talked about food safety in a digital age using social media. Also, Patrick had the opportunity to talk about how sites as iwaspoisoned.com crowdsource information and how this information can be integrated as an extra tool for the surveillance of foodborne illnesses by public health departments.
Patrick Quade founder of IWasPoisoned.com and DineSafe.org recently speak at the 2019 Food Safety Summit (FSS) conference held in Houston, TX where he was part of the panel discussion about food safety in a digital age using social media. Also, Patrick had the opportunity to talk about how sites as iwaspoisoned.com crowdsource information and make reporting foodborne illness easier to the people.
The 2019 Joint Annual Conference held by the Nevada Environmental Health Association and the Nevada Food Safety Task Force welcomes Iwaspoisoned.com founder, Patrick Quade, to talk about food safety and social media. The presentation will be on April 27 at 10:35 AM PDT. This year's conference "Generations of Leadership" will be held at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino in Reno, NV.
Patrick Quade, founder of IWasPoisoned.com and DineSafe.org com will speak at the 2019 Food Safety Summit (FSS) conference in Houston, TX on June 5th held by Harris County Public Health. This year’s theme is the Future of Food Safety. Some of the topics are about health inspection scoring, new technologies, and it will include a panel discussion on social media.
Top U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials issued a statement on March 19 about budget increases, which include new resources to advance the agency’s food safety program and expand food safety monitoring. “We must continue to embrace innovation across the food safety system to make sure we secure our public health mission,” the statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Deputy Commissioner Frank Yiannas says. “That’s why as part of the President’s 2020 Budget, we’ve proposed new funding across multiple aspects of our food safety system.”
Iwaspoisoned.com founder Patrick Quade discussed the impact of crowd-sourced foodborne illness reports on a brand's reputation at the conference on February 28, 2019 in Nice, France. He shared the panel with representatives from Ecolab, Starbucks, Dubai Municipality, Metro France and Wegmans Foods. (L to R) Ecolab (Adam Johnson), Starbucks (Tom Wiester), Dubai Municipality (Sultan Ali Al Taher), iwaspoisoned.com (Patrick Quade),Metro France (Marie Garnier) and Wegmans Foods (Gillian Kelleher). Recently the platform flagged a major food poisoning outbreak in Mongolia that resulted in the closure of Kentucky Fried Chicken locations in the nation's capitol, and is best known for identifying outbreaks in the United States including those caused by Chipotle that resulted in the company losing $10 billion in market capitalization.
Iwaspoisoned.com was invited to speak at The World Bank on March 7th in Washington DC to share our expertise in food safety and social media. The discussion centered on the potential for iwaspoisoned.com & social media to improve food safety outcomes in emerging markets. The Bank's lead agriculture economist Steven Jaffee hosted the event. Steven Jaffee (middle) hosted IWasPoisoned.com's Patrick Quade (left) and Colin Finan (right). “Governments in low- and middle-income countries not only need to invest more in food safety but also invest more smartly,” says Jaffee, with the Bank finds the impact of unsafe food costs low- and middle-income economies about US$ 110 billion in lost productivity and medical expenses each year.
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