International Association for Food Protection Annual Meeting

Annual meeting: add award (about to create a dab page for this award name) ← Previous revision Revision as of 07:55, 8 July 2026 Line 50: Line 50: In the 1960s, the association expanded its vision on food protection from milk safety. As the president of the association pointed out in 1960, "Today, we sanitarians must be equipped to deal with problems extending throughout the entire range of environmental health. We must solve problems of waste disposal, insect and rodent control, air pollution, housing, radiological poisoning, and many others. Additionally, with more Americans eating out more often than ever before, the food service industry has become an area of responsibility such as would have been impossible for our founding Members to imagine. Recently, the packaging of prepared foods of the 'heat and eat' variety has developed as a rapidly expanding industry that poses new sanitation problems for you to solve." The name of the association was changed after a mail ballot of members at large in response to the expanded scope of the association, the International Association of Milk, Food and Environmental Sanitarians (IAMFES).<ref>{{Cite web |title=History: 1911-2011 |url=https://www.foodprotection.org/downloads/history-book.pdf |access-date=2024-09-27 |website=International Association for Food Protection}}{{Primary source inline|date=September 2024}}</ref> In the 1960s, the association expanded its vision on food protection from milk safety. As the president of the association pointed out in 1960, "Today, we sanitarians must be equipped to deal with problems extending throughout the entire range of environmental health. We must solve problems of waste disposal, insect and rodent control, air pollution, housing, radiological poisoning, and many others. Additionally, with more Americans eating out more often than ever before, the food service industry has become an area of responsibility such as would have been impossible for our founding Members to imagine. Recently, the packaging of prepared foods of the 'heat and eat' variety has developed as a rapidly expanding industry that poses new sanitation problems for you to solve." The name of the association was changed after a mail ballot of members at large in response to the expanded scope of the association, the International Association of Milk, Food and Environmental Sanitarians (IAMFES).<ref>{{Cite web |title=History: 1911-2011 |url=https://www.foodprotection.org/downloads/history-book.pdf |access-date=2024-09-27 |website=International Association for Food Protection}}{{Primary source inline|date=September 2024}}</ref> ==Black Pearl Award== The IAFP gives an annual Black Pearl Award "in recognition of a company's outstanding achievement in corporate excellence in food safety and quality." It has been awarded since 1994. The majority of recipients have been American companies, but Canadian and German companies have also won.<ref>{{cite web |title=Black Pearl Award: Past awardees |url=https://www.foodprotection.org/about/past-awardees/black-pearl-award/ |website=International Association for Food Protection |access-date=8 July 2026 |language=en}}</ref> ==Annual meeting== ==Annual meeting== The IAFP annual meeting is held annually and has an attendance of over 3,600 people from U.S. and foreign local and federal governments, academia, food safety consultants and the food industry.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-01-01 |title=Food Safety and Inspection Service Strategic Plan 2023-2026 |url=https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media_file/documents/Strategic%20Plan%202023-2026.pdf |access-date=2024-09-27 |website=USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service}}</ref> The IAFP annual meeting is held annually and has an attendance of over 3,600 people from U.S. and foreign local and federal governments, academia, food safety consultants and the food industry.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-01-01 |title=Food Safety and Inspection Service Strategic Plan 2023-2026 |url=https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media_file/documents/Strategic%20Plan%202023-2026.pdf |access-date=2024-09-27 |website=USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service}}</ref> ==References== ==References==