The 2017 Consumer Food Safety Education (CFSE) Conference, hosted by the non-profit Partnership for Food Safety Education, will be held January 25-27, 2017 at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C.
The CFSE Conference will feature leading experts on the topic of behavior change: Frank Yiannas, Vice President of Food Safety for Walmart, author of Food Safety=Behavior and CFSEC co-chair; Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer-Prize winner and New York Times reporter and author of The Power of Habit; and Dr. Lou Atkins, Centre for Behaviour Change, University College, London, co-author of The Behaviour Change Wheel.
“To make dramatic improvements in reducing the burden of foodborne disease we need to get much better at influencing and changing human behavior,” said Yiannas. “At this conference we’ll share new concepts and approaches to help influence human behavior and create a food safety culture worldwide.”
Public health professionals, health and wellness educators, consumer advocates, food industry professionals, and government and military personnel, will have the opportunity to network and engage in collaborative dialog across industries. The two-day conference program will focus on:
- Behavior change for improved food safety practices at home and at work;
- Strategies to affect the food safety knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of millions of consumers;
- Collaboration among federal agencies, non-profit organizations, higher education, and the food and beverage industry.
The conference is supported in part with a grant from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Other event sponsors include Ecolab; Food Marketing Institute Foundation; Produce Marketing Association; Sealed Air/Diversey; Walmart; Cargill; the Foundation for Meat & Poultry Research and Education; General Mills; Hershey; NSF International; the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service; 3M Food Safety; the American Frozen Food Institute; the International Association for Food Protection; and Land O Lakes.
Limited conference and pre-conference workshop registrations are available. Register at cfsec2017.fightbac.org.
