Mr.Michael Brodsky

Area Of Expertise : Food safety
43 Years Of Experience
Training Industry : Food & Dietary Supplements

Michael Brodsky has been an Environmental Microbiologist for more than 47 years. He is a Past President of the Ontario Food Protection Association, the International Association for Food Protection and AOAC International. He serves as co-Chair for the AOAC Expert Review Committee for Microbiology, as a scientific reviewer in Microbiology for the AOAC Official Methods of Analysis and the AOAC Research Institute. He is a reviewer for Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater and a chapter co-editor on QA for the Compendium of Methods in Microbiology. He is also a lead auditor/assessor in microbiology for the Canadian Association for Laboratory Accreditation.

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Recorded Webinar

Emerging Issues in Food Safety Locally, Nationally and Globally

The food safety landscape is changing and this presents a litany of challenges. Learn about the issues and how can they be addressed. Understand what responsibilities each of us must adopt to help ensure that our food supply is safe. This webinar will address ...

  • Intermediate
  • 60 Mins
On-Demand Webinar

Food Allergen Programs-Current Trends, Technologies and Risk Mitigation

An Allergen Control Plan is a critical component in your product safety initiatives. Your Allergen Control Plan is your company’s written document regarding the storage, handling, processing, packaging, and identification of allergenic foods and ingredients. ...

  • Intermediate
  • 60 Mins
Recorded Webinar

Food Recall Management

Food Safety requires not only preventing contaminated food from reaching consumers but also effectively removing such products from the marketplace in a timely manner. Recall plans are an essential component of a company’s overall commitment to consumer protec ...

  • Basic & Intermediate & Advanced
  • 60 Mins
Recorded Webinar

Food Safety, Security and Fraud-Are You Ready?

Microbiological issues of food safety have historically been considered the result of inadvertent contamination. Intentional contamination or adulteration of food is, however, also a reality. Traditional HACCP programs are designed to enhance food safety by ad ...

  • Basic & Intermediate & Advanced
  • 60 Mins
On-Demand Webinar

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) in the Laboratory - Addressing Non-Conformances

This RCA webinar will define a specific set of steps and associated tools that you can use to determine the primary cause of non-conformance in your laboratory. You will learn to determine what happened, why it happened and how to reduce the likelihood of that ...

  • Basic & Intermediate & Advanced
  • 60 Mins
Recorded Webinar

Verification or Validation of methods in Food Microbiology

Method validation and method verification are two distinct procedures required to comply with ISO/IEC Standard 17025 for a microbiology laboratory accreditation. Unfortunately the two terms are often used interchangeably with serious consequences. The Webinar will di ...

  • Intermediate
  • 60 Mins
Recorded Webinar

In-House or Out House, A Corporate Dilemma

Retaining analytical support in-house or using a contract laboratory is a corporate decision that should not be based on cost alone. This session will address factors that food companies need to consider before making decisions on outsourcing analytical food test ...

  • Intermediate
  • 60 Mins
Recorded Webinar

Developing Documents and Records to Meet the Requirements of ISOIEC 17025

Developing a Quality Management System (QMS) as a prerequisite for getting accredited  requires financial support, dedication and commitment. Maintaining the QMS to retain your accreditation status is the real challenge and a measure of the robustness of your Sys ...

  • Intermediate
  • 60 Mins
Recorded Webinar

Quality Control for Analytical Materials used in Microbiology Laboratories

Upon completion of this session, attendees will learn: To understand intrinsic and extrinsic factors which can affect the performance of culture media, test kits, reagents and other analytical materials To identify Control Points (CP) ...

  • Intermediate
  • 60 Mins
Recorded Webinar

Risk Analysis and HACCP

This webinar will discuss the use of microbiological risk analysis in the development of HACCP programs for food production. We will discuss the changing landscape of microbial concerns and the importance of the team approach to assessing risk, identifying critical c ...

  • Intermediate
  • 60 Mins