Confirmed speakers include Roberto Azevedo of Brazil, who is the recently elected designee to serve as director general of the WTO; Gary Johnson, senior director of worldwide supply chain at McDonald’s Corp.; Dr Nan-Dirk Mulder, associate director for commodities at Rabobank; Gretchen Stanton, secretary of the WTO Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures; and Dr Alejandro Thiermann, president of the Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).

Also, Dr Peter Ben Embarek, program manager at the World Health Organization, has been invited to speak at the meeting, which will attract leaders from poultry organizations from all over the world.

The IPC has been officially recognized by the OIE, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN, and the Codex Alimentarius Commission as the single organization representing the global poultry production industry.

Members of the IPC will provide regulatory updates on issues pending before OIE, FAO and the Codex, and will give presentations on the status of the poultry industries in their individual countries.

Online registration for the meeting is available here. Registration is US$570 per person, and the InterContinental has granted a special IPC hotel room rate for attendees.

For additional information, contact IPC Secretary General George Watts at [email protected].