The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), an advocate of safer, more nutritious food, will be hosting a one-day conference to examine some of the best models for reducing or eliminating food-safety hazards at the farm level.
Research work worldwide supports that on-farm measures, demonstrate that food safety could be greatly improved by upgrading conditions on farms through the adoption of new production practices or technologies.
The conference, which will be held at the National Press Club, Washington D.C. on October 2, will bring together international scientists, government and industry officials, and health advocates to discuss and debate on-farm ways to improve food safety: the problems and the solutions, the practices and the laws, and the benefits and costs of new approaches.
The conference will host a number of eminent speakers who will be talk about a range of farm and food chain safety related topics. The topics will include: The Impact of Animal Production Practices on Food Safety; Improving Food Safety in Fruit and Vegetable Production; On-farm Practices That Reduce Human Pathogens in Animals and Reducing Pathogens in Cattle, Pigs and Poultry.
Speakers and attendees will include Robert Buchanan - US Food and Drug Administration, Carol Tucker Foreman - Consumer Federation of America, Doug Powell - University of Guelph and Alex Thiermann - United Nations Office of International Epizootics (OIE).
The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit health-advocacy organization, has been promoting a safer, more-nutritious food supply since 1971. CSPI has supported increased federal food-safety budgets, a more streamlined regulatory system, and better practices at processing plants.