2026 Annual Conference
The NCR FSMA Annual Conference will be held May 5-6, in Des Moines, Iowa. Registration for the annual conference will be $75, which includes several meals.
All produce safety educators, regulators, and non-profit staff are invited to attend! We will be covering produce safety from both the grower and processor perspective. Pratik Banerjee will be speaking about his research involving microplastics/nanoplastics and pathogens. More speakers will be announced soon.
On May 7, an environmental monitoring program course will be held, led by Byron Chaves. You will need to register for this course separately from the conference. Regulators, educators, non-profit staff are invited. Local growers and processors are also invited to the environmental monitoring course.
Details will be announced soon.
Register for the annual conference.
Register for the EMP course separately.
Apply for a stipend to help cover your travel costs.
Basic Conference Schedule
coming soon
You'll be able to download a draft agenda when it's available in mid-April.
Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and should not be construed to represent any official USDA or U.S. Government determination or policy.
This work is supported by the Food Safety Outreach Program [grant no. 2018-70020-28877; grant no. 2021-70020-35732; and grant no. 2024-70020-42954] from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.