Annual Meeting

The 2026 UGA Center for Food Safety Annual Meeting will be held on March 25-26, 2026. The event is by invitation only. For more information, email Devockius Tabron.

Guests will receive an invitation directly from CFS. Please check your email inbox for more information beginning in January 2026.

Center for Food Safety, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia

About

Each year in early March, the Center for Food Safety hosts an annual meeting near the Atlanta airport for 180 to 200 registrants. The invitation-only one-and-a-half-day meeting provides an opportunity to summarize the latest information on food safety research being conducted by CFS members and scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, FDA, USDA and other organizations.

The audience is primarily composed of food safety authorities from the food industry. Their attendance provides valuable insight to CFS members about the current problems and concerns in the industry.

Meeting Highlights

The event spans a day and a half and includes speakers from a variety of backgrounds within food safety, networking opportunities, and presentations from CFS students – the next generation of food safety experts.

Learn about the history of the CFS annual meeting in this article looking back at the last 30 years: Center for Food Safety celebrates 30 years of research, collaboration