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!”