2025 Annual Conference
The 2025 NCR FSMA Annual Conference will be held April 23-24, in Olathe, KS.
Registration costs $75 and is now open. We are utilizing a new registration system that requires people to create an account in order to register. Last year's event did not require this, so please choose the "new user" option unless you have attended a different Iowa State University event in the past.
Please register for the event by April 16.
The conference will be held at the Kansas State Olathe campus (22201 West Innovation Rd; Olathe, KS).
A block of hotel rooms has been reserved at the Hyatt Place Kansas City/Lenexa City Center. Free breakfast is provided by the hotel. Located in the Lenexa City Center, the Hyatt Place Kansas City/Lenexa City Center is approximately a 20-minute drive to the event and a 40-minute drive to the Kansas City airport. Please make your hotel reservation by April 1, to get the conference rate.
Educators (of growers and processors), regulators, program managers, and non-profit staff are invited.
Basic Conference Schedule
April 23: 8:15am-4:45pm, with lunch included
April 24: 8:00am-3:30pm, with lunch included
If you are flying from the Kansas City airport on April 24, please plan to arrive at the airport no earlier than 4:30pm.
Download a draft agenda.
ac25_agenda_march_version.pdf
2024 Annual Conference
The 2024 NCR FSMA Annual Conference was held April 3-4, 2024. Forty-six people met at the Chicago Marriott Southwest at Burr Ridge, in Burr Ridge, IL, just outside of Chicago.
We heard presentations from USDA and FDA and lots of our national partners. We had updates from the other three regional centers, PSA, FSPCA, LFSC, and the IFAI. Our breakout sessions covered both processing and growing topics, including sprouts. We discussed mental health and urban agriculture in Chicago. Several FSOP projects shared about their work, including one of the technical assistance projects from Cikana Candeska Community College. Several states also shared updates on their work.
Thank you to everyone who presented! It was great to learn more about your work and organization. We had a good time getting to know people and spending time together in person.
Sixteen people attended the morning tour of the Illinois Institute of Technology/Institute for Food Safety and Health.
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.