Posted at 3:36 p.m., Friday, October 19, 2007
Global experts to attend local aquaculture workshop
Advertiser Staff
Experts from around the world will travel to Honolulu next week for a workshop hosted by the Oceanic Institute designed to help the local aquaculture industry produce safer and better quality products."Concern over food safety and quality is a growing concern, especially in the area of seafood, which is largely imported," said Bruce Anderson, president of the Oceanic Institute in Waimanalo.
Nearly 20 experts from as far away as Japan and Australia will give presentations and discuss the potential pathways of contamination for aquaculture products from when they are cultured, all the way to the dinner table.
The workshop will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Wednesday in the Asia Room at the East-West Center's IMIN Conference Center. For more information, go the Oceanic Institute's Web site: www.oceanicinstitute.org.
