15 January 2011 is the deadline for submitting abstracts to 8th International Conference on Molluscan Shellfish Safety, scheduled for 12-17 June 2011, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. The conference program will primarily feature the following topics: epidemiology; risk assessment; pathogen and toxin monitoring; analytical methods in microbiology and biochemistry; consumer health protection; management of production and harvesting areas; post-harvest processing; and other topics that may come to the fore in the next year.