Due to COVID-19, the AIARD Board has decided to cancel the scheduled May 31 – June 2, 2020 AIARD annual meeting, which was to be held at the Hamilton Hotel in Washington, DC. This decision also means that the Future Leaders Forum program for 2020 has been canceled.
Thank you to all the students who applied to be Future Leaders for 2020. We strongly encourage you to remain engaged with AIARD and apply again next year.
We will work with those who have already registered for this year’s annual meeting regarding registration refunds.
We are considering a range of options to continue to engage our AIARD community in the coming months, including various virtual events.
Please contact AIARD at [email protected] if you have any questions.
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AIARD's 56th Annual Conference 
​May 31-June 2, 2020 in Washington, DC
​Hamilton Hotel
Making Food Safe: Meeting the Global Challenge
As the world population increases, so do the opportunities and challenges for ensuring that consumers have access to safe, nutritious foods that are sustainably produced, processed, and delivered to the marketplace. Food that is unsafe threatens the health of populations,  harms agricultural value chains, and undermines global social and economic development. 
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AIARD’s 2020 annual meeting will explore the many dimensions of global food safety – from production to consumption – and how improvements in food safety practices and technologies can help in building nutritious food systems for all. In addition, we will look at the key roles of various stakeholder groups such as government, business, research institutions, universities, and consumer groups, and ways they can effectively collaborate to accelerate the adoption of food safety practices that lead to reductions in foodborne illness, malnutrition, and hunger.