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The January Issue of our newsletter, The
Grapevine, is now available via our Newsletter
Page. Interested in submitting an advertisement for inclusion in our
newsletter? Please contact our Newsletter Editor at newsletter@bcfpa.net.
Our Annual General Meeting was held on January 23, 2012,
at the Delta Vancouver Airport Hotel, 3500 Cessna Drive, Richmond, BC.
The AGM featured two internationally recognized speakers under the theme, "Practical
Tips for Assessing Food Risk". We were pleased to host,
courtesy of the International Association for Food Protection Speaker's Program,
Dr. Don Schaffner, Extension Specialist in Food Science
and Professor, Rutgers University and Vice President, International Association
for Food Protection speaking on “Understanding
and Managing Food Safety Risks”. We are also fortunate to
have Dr. Wei Zhang, Associate
Professor of Biology and Food Microbiology, Department of Biological and Chemical
Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology presenting on “Bacterial
Stress Response and Genomics”. See the Events
Page for presentations.
We were pleased to welcome many new members to our AGM.
Not a member yet? Full details on our membership categories and a membership
application can be found on our Membership
Info page or click on Join Here at the top right of this page.
We invite you to consider becoming part of our association and supporting educational
initiatives for food safety and protection. Enjoy preferential rates at functions
as well as have priority access to our newsletter and enjoy regular e-mail bulletins
on food safety issues and events in the news. New members are always welcome!
Presentations and photos from BC'S FIRST "FULL
CHAIN" FARM TO FORK SYMPOSIUM held on
November 8th and 9th at the Coast Hotel & Convention Centre Langley, BC
can now be found on our Events Page
and in our Photo Gallery.
Over 220 attended the Symposium with a program designed for
"Promoting a Culture of Food Safety in BC".
We have also created two new pages on our website to host information from the
BC
Food Safety Stakeholders Group (BCFSSG)
and to provide an additional home for Symposium
2011. These Pages can be found from a link on the bottom of the left
side menu and from the Conference Page. Presentations and information can also
be found on the Symposium site at: http://www.foodsafetybc.ca/.
Please remember to check out our Sustaining
Members page and the links to their sites. The support and contributions
of our Sustaining Members are very important to the operation of our association.
Check out this video from the Canadian Partnership
for Consumer Food Safety Education:
How to Be Food Safe Canada?
Should you identify problems with any of our links
or with access to any of our documents or have suggestions to improve our site,
please send an e-mail to the Membership Coordinator at members@bcfpa.net.