The 2022 Fresh Produce Safety Conference is just over a week away! Now is the time to register and secure your spot at this year’s conference. Registrations are available for in-person or online attendance until midnight, Monday 8 August!

This year, we will be joined by a very special line-up of speakers including Drew McDonald, Senior Vice President Quality & Food Safety at Taylor Fresh Foods and Chair of the CPS Technical Committee from the US who will be joining us in person and delivering our Keynote Address titled ‘t’s Everyone’s Job – Embedding Food Safety Across the Business at Taylor Farms’.

The conference is also hosting a very special CEO session titled ‘Food safety starts at the top – CEOs on food safety in fresh produce’, hear directly from leading CEOs within the fresh produce industry featuring:

Michael Simonetta, Group CEO at Perfection Fresh Australia
John Said, CEO, Fresh Select
Catherine Velisha, Managing Director at Velisha Farms

Register now to hear our Keynote Speaker Drew and our special CEO session speakers in-person: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2022-fresh-produce-safety-conference-tickets-336826285487

Our full list of speakers & conference topics to be covered this year include:

  • Conference welcome by Professor Brent Kaiser, Director, Sydney Institute of Agriculture, Professor of Legume Biology & Molecular Genetics
  • Our Keynote Address featuring Drew McDonald, Senior Vice President Quality & Food Safety at Taylor Fresh Foods and Chair of the CPS Technical Committee. Sponsored by the University of Sydney.
  • Food safety starts at the top – CEOs on food safety in fresh produce will feature Michael Simonetta, Group CEO at Perfection Fresh Australia, John Said, CEO, Fresh Select and Catherine Velisha, Managing Director at Velisha Farms. Sponsored by One Harvest.
  • Primary production and processing standards: implications and resources will feature Nora Galway, Director, Food Safety & Response at FSANZ, Craig Shadbolt, Principal Food Safety Scientist at NSW DPI and Patrick Ulloa, Technical Manager at the FPSC.
  • Fresh produce food safety research update will feature Dr SP Singh, NSW DPI on Fresh produce safety surveillance, monitoring and support, Nicola King, NZFSSRC on Emerging Risk Identification System, Kim Leighton, JAS-ANZ on Digital validation of products across supply chains using international standards and Prof PJ Cullen, University of Sydney on PFAS contaminated water. Sponsored by JAS-ANZ.
  • Industry panel session: Skills, sustainability, labour and culture – food safety in everything we do will feature Claire McClelland, CEO at AFPA, Sachin Ayachit, National Program Manager at Growcom Fair Farms, Rachel Kilmister, Research & Development Programme Manager, NZ Apples and Pears and Dean Parsons, Sustainability Programmes Manager at CHEP. Sponsored by Coles.
  • Our special student session Next gen food safety researchers will feature Dr Jess Gray, Postdoctoral fellow, CSIRO, Jo Rothwell, PhD student, University of Sydney on food safety outbreaks and Dr Mark Bradbury, University of Sydney on Microbiological specifications and testing requirements for lettuce. Sponsored by Fresh Select.
  • Hort Innovation – Supporting the Horticulture industry meet its food safety goals featuring Bianca Cairns, Research & Development Manager, Hort Innovation
  • Multiple post-conference workshops

View our conference website & program: https://fpsc-anzconference.com.au/
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2022-fresh-produce-safety-conference-tickets-336826285487

Our speakers include: Brent N. Kaiser, Nora Galway, Craig Shadbolt, Sukhvinder Pal (SP) Singh, Nicola King, Kim Leighton, Pj Cullen, Rachel Kilmister, Claire McClelland, Sachin Ayachit, Dean Parsons, Patrick Ulloa, Bianca Cairns, Jessica Gray, Joanna Rothwell & Mark Bradbury

The FPSC is delighted to acknowledge the support of the following conference sponsors:

Our conference partners: Hort Innovation and Perfection Fresh Australia
Our conference sponsor: Office of the NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer | R&D NSW
Our session sponsors: University of Sydney, Coles Group, One Harvest and Joint Accreditation System of Australia and New Zealand (JAS-ANZ)
Our next generation knowledge sponsor: Fresh Select (Aust) Pty Ltd
Our quick break sponsor: Mérieux NutriSciences
Our exhibitors: FreshTest and NEOGEN Australasia