Conference and Expo Opens This Wednesday, March 16th at the Washington, DC
Convention Center
WASHINGTON, March 14 /PRNewswire/ -- New US Secretary of Agriculture Mike
Johanns will join FDA Commissioner-Designate Les Crawford as keynote speakers
at The 7th Annual Food Safety Summit and Expo, the nation's largest and most
important expo and conference on food safety, quality assurance, and food
security. Together, these two officials regulate every food product sold in
the United States. The Summit focuses on protecting the nation's food supply
from bacterial contamination like e-coli, as well as issues of food security
and counter-terrorism. Over 1,800 food manufacturers, processors, chain
restaurants and others will attend the event this week from
March 16-18, 2005, at the Washington D.C. Convention Center.
DATES/HOURS: Conference: Wednesday, March 16 through Friday,
March 18, 2005 8:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Exhibits: Thursday March 17 - 11:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. and
5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Friday, March 18 - 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Washington, DC Convention Center
Members of the press MUST register in the Press Room 147A
HIGHLIGHTS:
* On Friday, March 18th FDA Commissioner -- Designate Les Crawford and
Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns will deliver the keynote address
starting at 10:00 a.m. In addition, Doug Baker, CEO of EcoLab, will
also be presenting a speech during this time. On Thursday, March 17th
Julius Walls, CEO of Greyston Bakery in Yonkers, NY will discuss how
his commercial bakery trains ex-felons and otherwise unemployable,
low-skilled workers to produce high quality foods.
* More than 70 speakers from such household name food companies as Kraft,
Tyson, McDonald's, Campbell's Soup, Pepsi-Cola, Kellogg Company, Gerber
Foods, Sara Lee, ConAgra, Land O'Lakes, and Burger King will present on
everything from preventing e-coli and listeria problems to food
allergens in processed foods.
* Over two-dozen new sessions have been added to this year's conference
program. On Wednesday, March 16th, the Food Products Association and
Booz Allen Hamilton will present "Food Security & Bioterrorism:
Tabletop Exercise and Simulation." At the workshop, front-line leaders
in government, law enforcement, and corporate security will discuss
protecting products, securing facilities, and watching suppliers and
staff. Attendees will experience a "live-fire" drill where they will
develop an actual response plan to a food security scenario.
* Over 200 exhibit booths of technologies for food safety will be on
display. e-Foodsafety.com has an ozone sanitizer, emerge has a device
to detect contamination by visually scanning cattle carcasses, food
security and anti-terrorism methods will be on display, and much more.
The Food Safety Summit is produced and managed by Eaton Hall Exhibitions
and sponsored by the Food Products Association (FPA), formerly the National
Food Processors Association, the voice of the $500 billion food processing
industry on scientific and public policy issues; Food Safety Magazine, the
leading publication about food safety; and, the National Restaurant
Association, the leading business association for the restaurant industry.
For more program information and registration materials, call the Food Safety
Summit's toll-free number at (800) 746-9646 or visit
http://www.foodsafetysummit.com.
SOURCE The Food Safety Summit
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CONTACT:
Amy Riemer, +1-978-475-4441,
amy@riemercommunications.com, for The Food Safety Summit
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