Introducing Priority Sampling — a food safety sampling service, dedicated to transforming the landscape of food safety in the produce industry. Our mission is simple: to provide a quality service through transparency and innovation.

At Priority Sampling, we recognize the critical importance of ensuring the safety of leafy greens, a staple worldwide. Traditional methods of food safety sampling have long been hindered by inefficiencies, human error, and the time-consuming nature of manual processes. That's where our innovative solution comes into play. 

PRO*ACT is North America's leading fresh food procurement and distribution organization to foodservice, retail, and emerging channels, sourcing from premier national, regional, and local producers.

We streamline the perishable supply chain for regional operators, offering significant cost benefits to the more than 130 independent foodservice distributors who take advantage of our procurement programs.

PRO*ACT also consolidates last-mile distribution services for national, multi-unit foodservice, retail, and C-store accounts servicing over 12,000 units per week from 100+ distribution centers across the United States and Canada.

Food Safety and Water Quality Management

Meras Water Solutions has the expertise to support food safety operations in your field and facilities. Our core focus is helping farming operations take a comprehensive data-driven approach to implementing food safety controls in the growing and processing environment. We offer maintenance programs for all areas of your operation: Packing House, Equipment, and Facility Sanitation. 

Meras Water Solutions provides comprehensive water treatment programs for agriculture and industrial applications. Meras Water Solutions Agriculture Irrigation Efficiency Programs determine the best micro-irrigation maintenance program and reservoir remediation based on water quality, distribution uniformity measurement, and contaminants found in your system. Our micro-irrigation maintenance programs ensure our growers stay ahead of potential problems that can lead to inefficient water delivery and yield loss.

Meras Water Solutions provides specialty chemistries and service programs for industrial boilers, cooling towers, and ammonia condensers. Our team can also help you maintain glycol loops free of corrosion, sediment, and bacterial fouling. Meras offers a robust product line of process chemistries, such as: caustic and caustic-free cleaners, chlorine-free sanitizers, no-rinse cleaners, and conveyor lubricants. Learn more at https://www.meras.com/

The better we treat nature, the better nature treats us. 

That’s our guiding principle at Nature Safe® Fertilizers.

Nature Safe Fertilizers are crafted using natural ingredients. In return, soil is enriched and productive, crops are nourished with sustainable nutrients, yield is maximized, and quality is uncompromised.

We use the science and expertise of animal nutrition to precisely blend nutrients into a well-balanced, complete fertilizer to feed the soil and the plants. Our fertilizers are sustainable, responsible, and environmentally friendly.

Nature Safe Fertilizers contain some of the highest organic nutrient compounds available, pressed into convenient pellet form. We carefully calculate our blends to provide controlled release over time. This results in predictable nutrition that won’t harm young plants, reduces the need for frequent application, and feeds the plant through its entire life cycle to maximize yield and ROI. 

Nature Safe is much more than a name. Our fertilizers are fully compliant with National Organic Program (NOP) guidelines and approved for unrestricted use in organic crop production. They are listed with the Organic Materials Review Institute OMRI) and registered with the CDFA/OIM and WSDA Material Review Organizations.

We have a broad product line with specific formulations for any application. Product availability is assured with manufacturing facilities located in Turlock, CA, Fremont, NE, and Henderson, KY, and more than 200 distributors.

Established in 1992, Nature Safe has long been at the forefront of organic farming technology and development. For more than a century, our parent company, Darling Ingredients, has been a leader in environmental stewardship – transforming materials from the animal agriculture and food industries into valuable ingredients. Ingredients that nourish people, feed animals and crops, and fuel the world with renewable energy.

See how it’s in our nature to partner in your growth. Visit us at naturesafe.com.

AEMTEK: Reshaping Food and Beverage Testing Solutions!

AEMTEK is a leading ISO 17025-accredited third-party laboratory setting new food and beverage industry standards. With four state-of-the-art lab facilities, we specialize in research, regular testing, training, and consulting services.  We are dedicated to delivering accurate, fast, and reliable analytical services to support your commitment to food safety and help you overcome challenges effortlessly.

The AEMTEK Advantage:

Excellence in Data Quality: Our commitment to accuracy ensures your confidence in every result.

Customer Service Beyond Compare: Experience unparalleled support tailored to your needs.

Cutting-Edge Technology: Stay ahead with the latest advancements in testing methodology.

Optimal Expertise: Our formidable team, comprising Ph.D. scientists and seasoned industry professionals, guarantees success throughout every phase.

Comprehensive Support: From intricate research initiatives to complex result interpretation.

Timely and Efficient: Your project's completion is our priority, delivered on time and precisely.

Our exceptional services encompass: 

• Shelf-Life Studies
• Validation & Challenge Studies
• Spoilage Investigations
• Special Research Projects
• Comprehensive Product Testing
• Environmental Monitoring
• Sampling Plans and Methods

Partner with AEMTEK for solutions that exceed your expectations. For more information, please visit www.aemtek.com or email lab@aemtek.com.

Visionary Vegetables, LLC is a shipper, grower, and packer of a variety of leafy green commodities. Based out of the Salinas Valley, Visionary Vegetables was founded in 2019 by Tim McAfee and has vastly grown over the years. Our commitment to innovation is at the heart of our mission which is growing tomorrow’s greens today. We vow to meet our customers’ needs and take pride in providing clean and sustainable produce.

Food Safety is our number one priority for our customers and remain dedicated to the safety and health of our consumers. Our team at Visionary Vegetables is our greatest asset, embodying our values of integrity, excellence, and continuous improvement in every task. We are committed to enhancing our company goals, focusing on boosting sales, elevating food safety standards, and strengthening customer relationships.

Growing the finest berries in the world requires care, commitment and dedication. Driscoll’s patented berry varieties are primarily developed through years of research using only natural breeding methods. Our berries are grown with great care by our farmers, hand-picked, then carefully packed in the field to ship, all to ensure freshness and quality.

The power of QSI flows from a single, simple understanding—

The success of a sanitation program comes down to managing a process.

This is the truth: 90% of the daily success of a sanitation program rests on the shoulders of local management. But 90% isn’t good enough. The big question remains: how do we make up the remaining 10% to provide for truly safe sanitation?

It comes down to people. Not just how many you have, but who you have and, most importantly, how you support them.

To fully realize success at the local level, people need support. They need structure. That’s where the QSI Management and Support Teams come in. We help deliver the remaining 10% through our support systems, which allows our local management to do what they do best—manage the process.

Our unique support system includes the following: 

Human Resources

Human Safety

Food Safety

California LGMA brings farmers together to make lettuce and leafy greens safer. The LGMA verifies food safety practices, enforces through government audits, and requires a commitment to continuous improvement. Working collaboratively with university and industry scientists, food safety experts, government officials, farmers, shippers and processors, the LGMA created a unique and rigorous science-based food safety system that protects public health by reducing potential sources of contamination and establishes a culture of food safety on the farm.  

LGMA members are companies that ship and sell California-grown lettuce, spinach and other leafy greens products. The California LGMA has a sister program in Arizona that is almost identical. Working with hundreds of farmers throughout California and Arizona, LGMA members produce approximately 90% of the leafy greens grown in the U.S. – that adds up to over 50 billion servings of leafy greens each year! www.lgma.ca.gov 

Radicle Seed (formerly T&C Supplies) has been a West Coast leader in seed and agricultural product sales since 1985. We supply growers throughout the Salinas Valley, Central Valley, coastal, and desert regions with vegetable seed and other supplies.
 

Radicle Seed’s experienced sales team provides the highest levels of service to all customers. Our field representatives meet regularly with growers and seed companies to stay informed of the newest varieties and most effective growing techniques. We also work in close partnership with Headstart Nursery, the west coast’s leading vegetable transplant nursery, to supply seed and plants together at one low price.

In the agricultural industry, Provision's cloud software emerges as a vital asset for growers of practically any commodity. By simplifying the prospect of digitizing food safety and quality assurance, Provision offers growers a way to shed the burden of paper reports and clumsy binders. In a competitive market with constantly changing customer requirements and government regulations, Provision offers a way to streamline documentation for compliance and certification. More and more food safety managers are turning to smart solutions like automated notifications to avoid missed forms, automated rules to ensure compliance and automated reports to simplify audit prep during harvest season. Tailored to suit the needs of small- and mid-sized operations, Provision provides agile solutions that seamlessly digitize documentation. In a world where data is king, Provision empowers growers to navigate audits more efficiently, while also harnessing insights for enhanced process control.

In 1995, Bruce Taylor and several partners founded Taylor Fresh Foods. A new company with a new vision was born – to be North America’s favorite maker of salads and healthy fresh foods. We’ve come a long way since our humble roots, and we continue to grow our business with care and purpose like we do our products. It is thanks to our team’s dedication that we are able to make wholesome fresh foods that nourish families across the country. A family-owned and founder-led company to this day, we are proud that we are able to build for long-term success with our customer and supplier partners while being responsible stewards of the resources that we use. Our products are made with earth’s honest ingredients, and none of the nonsense. We are committed to being a force for good in the world and we cherish the opportunity to deliver healthy and delicious fresh foods to our consumers while protecting the land that feeds us.

Join us in welcoming our latest sponsor, iFoodDS, to the Western Food Safety Conference! 

iFoodDS is the leader in food supply chain solutions, providing a comprehensive digital platform for traceability, quality, and food safety.  

Prepare now for FSMA 204 with iFoodDS Trace Exchange™ with IBM Food Trust™, the platform specifically designed to help the fresh food supply chain meet regulatory requirements. 

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The Foxy brand is four generations in the making. Since the early 1930s, the Nunes family has been practicing innovative farming methods in California’s Salinas Valley.

Bob and Tom Nunes pioneered the practice of film-wrapping lettuce in plastic for freshness after forming Nunes Brothers of California in 1966. After selling the company, Nunes Company, Inc. was formed in 1976.

Since then, farming acreage has increased to more than 20,000 crop acres in California, Arizona and Nevada as the Foxy brand was created to help introduce our produce to families throughout the United States and the world.

Please visit us at foxy.com

KipTraq is an amazingly flexible data collecting and reporting platform that allows users to easily design their own mobile forms, collect data, and then use the web-based reporting tool to see data, graphs, auto-email reports, and build dashboards for staff and customers.

At Eurofins, we understand that produce food safety starts well before planting the seed or serving the salad to a consumer. While microbial safety and spoilage is a considerations in all segments of the food industry, the produce segment presents unique challenges due to the perishability of products, complex supply chains, and a limited set of mitigations to control food safety threats. Eurofins laboratories understand the dynamic nature of your fresh products, and we are here to support the industry at all points - “farm-to-fork.” Whether your need is testing, a risk assessment, or a shelf-life study, we are here to guide and support you with industry-leading technologies, state-of-the-art laboratories, and easy access to experts when challenging situations occur.

For produce, time is of foremost importance with a limited product shelf life. We are conveniently located in growing regions to provide rapid testing services. Our locally-based client service teams strive for responsive service so that we can provide prompt answers and on-time results. Our national network of ISO 17025 accredited laboratories is here to support your business with a full portfolio of microbiological and chemistry testing services for pre-harvest, agricultural water testing, product testing, and facility environmental monitoring. In addition, we offer dedicated on-site modular laboratories for your individual needs.

Companies need a partner that can match and even exceed, their high-quality standards to protect and grow their brands. Our network of laboratories brings broad expertise and unparalleled experience to meet that need while providing full transparency to the process along the way. We act as an extension of your team to help ensure that you receive accurate results and tailored support for your programs.

Partner with us to create great products that customers value for their quality and safety. Contact us today.