This year’s conference was held at the Hilton Palacio del Rio, located along the River Walk, San Antonio’s most popular attraction.
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE
- Traditional Mexican food, drinks, and a live performance by Mariachi Alma de Jalisco at our Preconference Mixer
- Opening the conference with USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service Aaron Lavallee’s “How are Consumers Handling Your Products? Hint: It’s Not How You Think.”
- Shawn Stevens from Food Industry Counsel’s presentation “The Use of Strain Typing in Environmental Monitoring – Will It Hurt or Help?”
- An out-of-this-world presentation by Todd Elliott of NASA’s Johnson Space Center Microbiology Lab “Microbial Monitoring for Spaceflight Operations”
- A crowd-favorite Dr. Mickey Parish from the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition “FDA’s Regulatory Updates and Their Industry Impact”
- The one-hour narrated Go Rio River Cruise Wednesday afternoon, an unforgettable way to experience the world-famous San Antonio River Walk
SOME RAVE REVIEWS FROM 2020
- “Thanks, to present all of these interesting topics, very satisfied to have attended this conference.”
- “Wonderful conference! Well organized. Great speaker line-up, will definitely be back.”
- “First time attending but will be back!”
- “Really good line up of topics and speakers. Glad I could participate.”
- “I liked listening to those in the regulatory field hearing about what they are seeing out in the real world.”
- “This is my first conference and I thoroughly enjoyed it”
- “Very diverse subject experts, excellent experience”
- “I liked how each talk built onto the next, well thought out for good learning”
- “Wonderful event! Can’t wait for next year!”