The Partnership for Food Safety Education will host the Consumer Food Safety Education Conference (CFSEC) on March 13–14, 2025 at the Sysco Headquarters in Houston, Texas. CFSEC is the only conference in the U.S. dedicated to consumer food safety education, convening research experts, nutrition professionals, and community-based health and food safety educators across the country who educate consumers on how to handle food safely at home.

CFSEC 2025 will equip health and food safety educators from all sectors with knowledge and tools to prevent foodborne illness at the “fork” end of the chain of prevention, as well as orient educators to national goals such as Healthy People 2030. Public health, nutrition, and food safety educators must be poised to reach consumers with food safety education that is effective at influencing behavior change.

The conference will help advance knowledge in today’s critical health and food safety challenges. Conference attendees can expect sessions on food safety research, programming, and communication, alongside interactive food safety experiences.

The conference will be chaired by Charles Leftwich, Vice President of Food Safety and Quality Assurance at Sysco Corporation and Tara Kelly, Instructor in the Department of Nutrition Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

CFSEC keynotes and speakers will be announced in the near future. Attendees will hear from top experts in the health and food safety sectors who will provide the latest in food safety education research and practices and facilitate meaningful discussions around prevention of food-related illness among consumers.

Other features of CFSEC include:

• The opportunity to network and collaborate with health and food safety educators from government agencies, nonprofit organizations, academia, and industry
• Access to tools and resources that address the biggest consumer-related food safety challenges
• Posters exploring the latest research and innovations.

Registration is now open. A summer savings rate of $425 is being offered through September 2—which amounts to $75 savings off the standard rate. The early bird rate of $450 is available through December 31, representing $50 savings.