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Advancing a Culture of Food Safety
Excellence
May 6–7, 2026
Sherwood Hall 940 N Main St, Salinas
The Western Food Safety Conference brings together all levels of the agricultural workforce and support services to California’s Central Coast for two days of in-depth education on the most current Food Safety issues and concerns for fresh fruits and vegetables.
NOTE: SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Michael Gutierrez, Superintendent/President, Hartnell College
Joseph W. Reardon
Senior Director of Food Safety Programs for the National Association State Departments of Agriculture
10 years of the Pr...
This session explores the emerging potential of predictive modeling to revolutionize produce safety by shifting from reactive to proactive a...
Traditional mock recalls test traceability, but they rarely reflect the complexity of a real food safety crisis. This conversation explores ...
Collecting FSMA 204 data is only the first step — making it usable across the supply chain is where the real work begins. As growers, distri...
This session highlights how the FDA leverages data analytics, scientific evidence, and risk modeling to inform the identification and mitiga...
Managing Stress, Burnout, and Retention in Food Safety Role
Food safety depends on people making high-stakes decisions under intense pressure...
An FDA-WCFS-CDFA-Industry Collaboration Regarding STEC Occurrence in the Central Coast Agricultural Region of California
This session will re...
When sanitation decisions are guided by data, teams can move from reactive cleaning to confident, preventive action. This conversation highl...
Focus on E. coli O157:H7 REP2.
This presentation explores how integrating environmental measurements, microbial genetics, and advanced analyt...
NOTE: SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Michael Gutierrez, Superintendent/President, Hartnell College
Dr. Darin Detwiler, Detwiler Consulting Group LLC
Leading a Culture of Food Safety Excellence has no Expiration Date
Conducting an Agricultural Water Assessment for Pre-Harvest Agricultural Water is required by the FSMA PSR. Most farms will be able to navig...
Data science is reshaping how the fresh produce industry manages risk and advances prevention. This session explores how data sharing, predi...
Cyclospora cayetanensis has a complex biological life cycle that presents both challenges for study and opportunities for control, despite o...
Zero food safety "defects" in fresh produce is determined only by the combined limits of the full sampling, processing, and detection syste...
Safe food transportation is often the best-kept secret in fresh produce logistics, where price and delivery time routinely outweigh trailer ...
While Listeria monocytogenes is well recognized as a challenge for the produce industry, opportunities remain to further improve its control...
The Current and Future Role of Genomics in Food Safety
Speaker:
Dr. Kerry Cooper, University of Arizona
California’s SB 54 is reshaping fresh food packaging requirements, with significant implications for food safety, product integrity, and she...
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