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Webinar for the Restaurant Industry

"Take Brand Protection To The Next Level"Would you like to:Gain Real Control Over Your SuppliersImprove In-Store Safety Quickly and InexpensivelySupercharge Your PLM for Continuous Product ImprovementLeverage Food Safety Legislation into Additional ProfitsOf all the companies in the food supply chain, restaurants are challenged with the most moving parts. Suppliers, distribution, direct-owned stores, and franchisees, all are points of vulnerability in...

SCEHA Annual Conference

The South Carolina Environmental Health Association Annual Conference will be held at The River Center, Saluda Shoals Park, Columbia, SC, on October 29, 2009. For more information, contact Susan Bowen at 843.202.7020....

Food Forum Workshop

Please join us at the Food Forum WorkshopProviding Healthy and Safe Foods as We AgeOctober 29-30, 2009 The National Academies Auditorium 2100 C Street N.W. Washington, DCPlease join the Institute of Medicine's Food Forum in a 2-day workshop to explore food supply issues of particular importance to aging populations. This workshop is jointly supported by the Interagency Risk Assessment Consortium...

Nebraska Environmental Health Association Annual Educational Conference

The Nebraska Environmental Health Association Annual Educational Conference will be held October 28 at Eugene T. Mahoney State Park, Ashland NE.  Contact Kathy King at 402.441.8025 for registration information....

Webinar for the Supermarket/Retail Industry

"Supercharge Your Private Brands"Wednesday, October 28, 2009 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM EDTWould you like to:Differentiate Your Fresh Brands with Advanced Consumer LabelingImprove Profit Margins for All Your Private BrandsYou already know that your highest profit margins come from yourprivate brands. What if you could promote your private brands evenbetter? What if you could squeeze even more profit margin from...

2009 North Dakota Environmental Health Association Annual Conference

For more information, visit http://www.ndeha.org/conference.htm...

2009 National Public Health Conference: Healthy People in a Healthy Environment

The 2009 National Public Health Conference: Healthy People in a Healthy Environment, organized by CDC's NCEH/ATSDR and NEHA, will be held October 26-28 at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta, GA. For more information and to register visit http://www.cdc.gov/features/NEPHconference/. ...

Good, Clean, Fair Food - Can We Have It All?

Erika Lesser, executive director of Slow Food USA to lead a discussion on an examination of our current food system; its consequences to our health, the environment, food & farm workers, and our communities; and alternatives to the current food system at The Food Summit at Town Hall:  Good, Clean, Fair Food - Can We Have It All?Wednesday October 21,...

British Columbia Food Protection Association Food Safety Conference

BC's Premier Food Safety Conference:  "the First Decade - Embracing a Changing World"More information is available here:  http://www.bcfpa.net/SubPages/AnnualConference/AnnualConference.htm...

Webinar: Preventing Foodborne Illness

The Society for Public Health Education will hold a free Webinar
 on preventing food borne illness on Tuesday, October 20 from 2-3:30
ET.   This computer-assisted educational event will feature three
 national authorities on minimizing your food safety risks, efforts of
 government and food producers to keep food safe, and special
 precautions for high-risk populations.  The Webinar is being held as part...

Expert Q&A on Import Safety

Food Safety News was able to attend the Global Food Safety Policy Forum last week, and we thought our readers might find a Q & A from one of the expert panels from the import food safety discussion interesting.Q: You throw out a very big number for what it would take for FDA to inspect all foreign facilities, 3.5 billion,...

TEHA 53rd Annual Education Conference

The TEHA 53rd Annual Educational Conference will be held in Austin, TX October 14-16. For more information, visit www.myteha.org or contact Steve Berry, steve.berry@myteha.org....

Five Minutes with Marler & Raymond

Editor's Note:  "Jolley: Five Minutes With Bill Marler, Richard Raymond & The New Food Safety" originally appeared at CattleNetwork.com and is reprinted with permission from Chuck Jolley.  On September 29 Richard Raymond used his Meatingplace blog to talk about an important but unnoticed anniversary. It had been one year since he retired from his post as the USDA's undersecretary for...

Monterey County Food Safety Education Conference

Monterey County Food Safety Education Conference will take place at the Sherwood Community Center at 940 N. Main Street in Salinas on Tuesday, September 29th, 2009, from 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m....

2009 Uniting Public Health Conference

Connecting for a Stronger FuturePresented by Colorado Public Health AssociationRegister for this event here.Visit the conference site for more information....