The Conference for Food Protection has a place for you in its representative and equitable partnership of regulators, industry members, academics and consumers.  You have ideas to bring to the table to help identify problems, formulate recommendations, and develop practices that promote food safety and consumer protection. Our Committees can benefit from your knowledge and experience as they tackle the many food safety and security concerns that face us all.

You can be part of our next Conference meeting in San Antonio, Texas, April 11-16, 2008. First, you can submit an Issue about improving food safety using our online Issue Form by the deadline in January 2008. Then you can present your Issue at the meeting to one of three Councils that will provide a unique balanced consideration of yours and the other Issues before it. Approved Conference recommendations may be incorporated into the FDA Model Food Code and offered for adoption by regulatory agencies to help establish nationwide uniformity. In between the Biennial Conferences, much work continues in the various Conference committees that are tasked with charges by the Conference. You can review the work of many committees and find the areas where you can be a part of the solutions they develop. Our future in food safety and food security can be enhanced with your involvement, so we encourage you to get into the front line in this national forum, the Conference for Food Protection.