The 2025 Biennial Meeting will be held March 24 – 28, 2025 at the Grand Hyatt Denver, 1750 Welton St, Denver, CO 80202.

The pre-Biennial Meeting Virtual Workshop will be held on three consecutive Fridays, February 21^st, February 28^th and March 7^th, 2025, from noon to 2:00 PM Eastern Time each day.

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Click HERE for the most recent version of CFP’s federal form W-9
(for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certification)

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• The 2025 Biennial Meeting “INFORMATION BOOKLET” contains details regarding a preliminary schedule of events and registration costs. This document was created to provide details needed to make travel plans.

Click HERE for a PDF of this 10-page “Information Booklet” (published 12/27/2024).

• From the upper right hand corner of this page, click on the various gray colored buttons to learn more about different aspects of the 2025 Biennial Meeting.

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SUPPORT CFP AS A SPONSOR OR DONOR

Click HERE for information about Sustaining Sponsorship and Event/Service Donation
opportunities.

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CFP MEMBERSHIP

Membership in CFP is included with a paid 2025 Biennial Meeting registration and with complimentary registrations provided to Sustaining Sponsors; Membership remains valid until the day before the start of the next Biennial Meeting in 2027. Membership in CFP is NOT included with the “Virtual Workshop Only” registration option.

Membership in CFP is always valid for the period between each biennial meeting. Therefore, a new membership processed today will expire the day before the 2025 Biennial Meeting begins in Denver. Please access the CFPmemberportal.foodprotect.org.

If you are not able to attend the Biennial Meeting in March 2025, membership fees for the upcoming biennium can be paid separately. Membership fees for the 2025-2027 biennium are $100 and current membership is required to participate on a CFP Committee or to serve as a Council Member.

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ISSUE SUBMISSION

The Issue Submission Process is now open and will remain open until January 3, 2025.

We are pleased to share that we have worked closely with Share-ify over the past few months to create a new platform that we believe is more user friendly and intuitive than the previous platform!

Unlike the previous solution, Share-ify requires login to submit an issue. To login, you will need to use the email address that CFP has on file for you. If you need to update this information, please click the following link: https://share-ify.com/cfp/

To login to Share-ify to submit an issue, please click here: https://app.share-ify.com/

When you click on the link above, you will be automatically directed to the CFP Group Page. A user guide is available to answer most – if not all – questions that you might have about the new Issue Submission process. If you still have questions or would like to reach out to the Issue Committee for any reason at all, you are welcome to do so. Please email [email protected]

If you are not a CFP member, please see instructions below in the section entitled “Not a CFP Member.”

To login to Share-ify for the first time, please follow these instructions:

· Selecting “Forgot Your Password” below “Login”, then enter your email address.

· An email will be sent to you with a link to click on and choose your new password.

· Click the link and establish your password. It must be at least 12 characters and have 1 upper case, 1 lower case, 1 number and 1 special character.

Not a CFP Member

If you are not a CFP member, please click the following link and complete the form to be set up with temporary access to the CFP Group for Issue submission. https://share-ify.com/cfp/

Contact for Issues Committee

The current Issue Chair is Patrick Guzzle, and his email and phone contact are: [email protected] and (208) 515-8688. Patrick is happy to receive emails, calls, or text messages.

The current Issue Vice Chair is Linda Zaziski and her email is [email protected]

We look forward to working with you during this time of Issue submission and preparation.

An “Issue” is a topic submitted for consideration to the Conference by any interested party which addresses an identified concern related to retail food safety and offers a recommended solution to that concern.

Issues are accepted ONLY through an automated ONLINE process. To assist in preparing an Issue for submission, the “Issue Pre- Submission Form,” “Terms and Conditions for Issue Submission,” and the “Issue Preparation & Review Process and Checklist” are all available on the Conference website. Click HERE to learn more about the Issue submission process.

Online Issue submission for the 2025 Biennial Meeting in Denver will be available in starting November 24, 2024 through January 3, 2025.

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