The Food Safety Hazards Conference will take place April 20-22 in St. Louis MO. The Program starts on Monday April 20 at 12 pm which leads into two full days of high-level panel discussions and educational presentations concluding Wednesday, Aprill 22 at 12 noon CST.

Organized by Food Safety Tech, who also runs the Food Safety Consortium Conference since 2012, the Food Safety Hazards Conference will focus on the detection, mitigation, control and regulations of food safety hazards through technology, best practices and data analytics. The Hazards addresses in the program include Listeria, e-Coli, Salmonella, Allergens, Chemicals and Foreign Matter. The conference scope includes both human and pet foods.

Use the interactive Agenda below.

Click on the session title and see a detailed description of the session along with the speakers and panelists.

Bring Your FSQA Team! Register 3 or more team members and receive a 25% on all registrations.

FSQA Team can't travel? No Problem. Select the FSQA Team Virtual option during the registration process. While at least one team member attends in-person, other team members cat attend virtually using the MS Teams platform.

Please note, we are curating the agenda on an ongoing basis. We will add new sessions and additional speakers. Therefore, the agenda as you see it, is subject to change.

Agenda
Monday, April 20
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Lunch is offered and then enjoy your time networking and meeting with Peers and Sponsors
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Conference Director sets the stage for three impactful days, outlining key sessions, themes, and the latest developments in food safety.
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Fireside Chat interview with Dr. Mindy Brashears, Under Secretary for Food Safety, USDA and Dr. Donald A. Prater, Principal Deputy Director for Human Foods, FDA moderated by Brian Ronholm, Director of Food Policy, CR.
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
This session will focus on practical, real-world strategies for mitigating and controlling foodborne pathogens—particularly Listeria, Salmonella, and biofilm-forming organisms—across complex food operations.
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Triggered by guidance from the FDA and renewed interest in allergen thresholds, facilities will need to adopt a more quantitative approach to developing, assessing, validating, and verifying all aspects of their allergen control systems.
4:35 PM - 5:15 PM
4:35 PM - 5:15 PM
Attendees will leave with a practical strategic framework to evaluate whether their corrective actions address root cause, or merely contain symptoms.
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Beer, Wine and Refreshments are offered in the Exhibits
Tuesday, April 21
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Breakfast is offered and then enjoy your time networking with Peers and Sponsors
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
This session will examine primary heavy metals of concern, pathways through which they enter the food supply and provide a comprehensive overview of current and emerging regulatory guidance, including Codex standards, FDA requirements, and EU regulations.
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Using examples such as Salmonella and STEC behavior in raw pork and Salmonella dynamics in poultry, we will demonstrate how predictive models characterize growth, inactivation, and survival under realistic processing and storage conditions.
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Three 15 minute presentations followed by a panel discussion and Q&A
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch is offered and then enjoy your time networking with Peers and Sponsors
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
This session provides a scalable, technology-enabled roadmap for designing pest-control programs that are predictive rather than reactive and operationally efficient.
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM
The presentation introduces a simple, repeatable framework that links cyber threats to food safety hazards (e.g., loss of monitoring, tampered records, compromised specifications, disrupted traceability, fraudulent COAs, ransomware-driven downtime).
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM
This presentation will discuss the potential for cross contamination and cross contact through hauling in bulk tankers. Specifically, this will discuss the lack of a defined protocol and monitoring content in the trailer and washing specs.
4:45 PM - 5:30 PM
4:45 PM - 5:30 PM
Learn how structured evaluation of food and ingredient matrix characteristics, as well as processing and formulation attributes can be integrated to identify a more complete and product-relevant set of reasonably foreseeable biological hazards
5:30 PM - 5:45 PM
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
To Be Announced
Wednesday, April 22
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Breakfast is offered and then enjoy your time networking with Peers and Sponsors
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Drainage systems represent a primary reservoir for persistent pathogens. This session introduces the Drainage Evaluation Program (DEP), an assessment tool designed to evaluate current drainage usage, installation methods, and underground piping integrity.
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Participants will see practical strategies for combining formulation, processing, and validated cooling plans to manage pathogen risks while meeting consumer expectations for clean-label products.
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
Key topics include: Foreign material risk points. Preventative and detection controls. Inspection technology placement and limitations. Regulatory and GFSI expectations.
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Sponsors
Host
Media Partner
Speakers
Founder & Principal Advisor
ThinkFink Solutions, LLC
Principal Deputy Director for Human Foods
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Under Secretary for Food Safety
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Vice President, QA & Food Safety
The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated
Conference Director & Publisher
Food Safety Consortium & Food SafetyTech
Food Safety Programs & Investigations Manager
Mérieux Nutrisciences
Associate Professor
Rutgers University
Principal
Gendel Food Safety LLC
Corporate QA Scientist
Faribault Foods, Inc.
Food and Beverage Liaison
MilliporeSigma
Vice President of Engineering
FoodSafe Drains
Technical Development Director – Certification and Tailored Solutions
SGS North America
Senior Director, Consulting & Education
Mérieux Nutrisciences
Marketing & Strategy Director
Quail Systems
Business Development Leader - Food Safety
Synexis
FSQA and Quality Improvement Manager
Nonni's Bakery (A Ferrero Related Company)
President
D. L. Newslow & Associates, Inc
Dir. Compliance Advancement
RNR Initiatives
Director of Food Policy
Consumer Reports

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Registration: Team Discounts & Payment Methods
Registration: Team Discounts & Payment Methods

Payment Method: Credit Card or PayPal.

  1. PayPal is our credit card processor.
  2. You can pay with your credit card and you do not need a PayPal account.
  3. The merchant name on your credit card statement will read "Food Safety" or "FS Consortium" depending on your bank.
  4. Contact us if you have any questions

Team Discounts:

We are offering a 25% discount for teams of 3 or more participants from the same company.  

  1. When you register 3 or more participants from your company, you will receive a 25% discount per registration.
  2. You must register your team at the same time by selecting Add A Registrant
  3. If you register 3+ people at the same time, the system will apply the discount to ALL registrants.
  4. If you are adding team members after registering, please contact us.
  5. Please contact us if you need assistance registering your team. 

Can I Cancel my Registration:

Cancellations minus a 20% cancellation fee are available until April 3. There will be NO refunds on Cancellations received after April 3. 

We will gladly substitute your registration to another colleague.

Do you have a room block at the hotel?

We are working with the Hilton, St. Louis at the Ballpark. The Millipore Sigma rate is $162 per night.


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