AFDO Conference Exhibitors – Association of Food and Drug Officials
128th AFDO AEC Conference 2024

2024 Conference Exhibitors

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Featured Exhibitors

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WinWam Software

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WinWam Software is fast becoming the standard in government field inspections. Thirty-six (36) State governments have purchased WinWam along with many county and city governments. WinWam Software provides inspectors with sophisticated and easy to use tools for performing a myriad of inspections including: Food and Feed Safety, Environmental Health, Seed, Fertilizer & Lime, Animal Health & Welfare, Plant Industry, Weights & Measures.
With WinWam the inspection forms are turbo charged with intelligence. Observations cited on the form can trigger pop-up regulations. The inspector can append notes, create flowcharts, and attach electronic documents and digital photographs. At the end of the inspection, the inspector can capture the Person in Charge’s signature and print an inspection form in the field or back at the home office. Inspections can also be posted a Citizen Portal so that the community can have access to the results.
WinWam Software is easy to deploy, proven and affordable. Please stop by our booth or contact us to learn more about WinWam Software.

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Michigan State University

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MSU Institute for Food Laws & Regulations

Michigan State University’s Institute for Food Laws and Regulations (IFLR) offers online graduate courses to food industry professionals. Topics include international, US, EU, Canadian, and Chinese food laws and regs; Codex Alimentarius; animal health and food safety; regulatory leadership; beer/wine/spirits; FSMA rules. Courses are asynchronous. Enrollment is as easy as registering for a conference, no transcripts required. Students can take a single course or earn certificates in international or US food law. Many students continue to earn an online LL.M. or M.J. in global food law from MSU College of Law.

MSU Online Food Safety Program

Michigan State University’s Online Food Safety Program strives to educate professionals on how to make global food systems safe. The program consists of a Master of Science in Food Safety degree, a Graduate Food Safety Certificate, and non-credit continuing education courses—all online. These programs will provide food safety professionals with applicable knowledge to navigate the ever-changing concerns surrounding food safety, food protection, and public health.

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MSU College of Law

Global Food Law Program

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Global Food Law Program, Michigan State University College of Law

Maintain your work-life balance while updating your current skill set and knowledge base through our Global Food Law Program.  Students in this program can enroll in individual courses or pursue a Master’s Degree.  No legal background is required, as there are tracks for students with and without a Juris Doctorate (J.D.). In this program, you’ll also find that there is no need to relocate or put your career on hold to further your education, as all courses are taught asynchronously and completely online. 

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HS GovTech

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HS GovTech is the premier cloud based provider for Environmental Health and Department of Agriculture data management solutions including; licensing, permitting, inspections, risk management, complaint management, advanced analytics etc. HS has over 950 state and local agencies across the United States and Canada. We have rapidly become the choice for agencies that need to modernize to modern systems.  HS, throughout its history, has worked exclusively in the EH and Ag space and is dedicated to the community we serve.  We have a special relationship with AFDO, NEHA, as well as numerous other Environmental Health Organizations throughout the country.

Our cloud-based software product suite includes HS Mobile for in the field inspection, even when offline. It also includes a public facing portal that allows agencies to accept and manage applications online (and provide the public they serve access to inspection results), a unified mobile payment platform HS Pay and GovCall, a fully integrated teleconferencing platform that allows you to perform virtual inspections among many other functions.

The HS GovTech team – and HSCloud Suite platform – embodies the collaborative pride and genuine care of delivering the most versatile software available in the industry. Our software and our people make the difference.

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Micro Essential Laboratory

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Micro Essential Laboratory, Inc supplies pH test papers, sanitizer test papers, and pH buffer standards to a global market. The markets served include educational, industrial, medical, and personal pH testing by consumers. In addition to pH products, Micro Essential Laboratory, Inc. is the leading manufacturer of sanitizer test papers used throughout the foodservice industry.

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Appian

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Appian is a cloud software company that automates mission-critical processes. The Appian AI-Powered Process Platform empowers government organizations with everything they need to design, automate and optimize their operations to drive increased efficiency and productivity. Appian’s ability to orchestrate and automate complex processes makes it a valuable tool for any agency that seeks to unleash digital innovation and improve its mission outcomes. More than 200 government agencies—including the Texas Secretary of State, Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, and University of South Florida—rely on the secure, FedRAMP- and StateRAMP-authorized, IL5-compliant Appian Platform and solutions to improve their workflows, unify data, and optimize operations to deliver on mission priorities. To learn more about how you can accelerate system and process modernization and deploy future-ready systems faster, visit appian.com

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IFPTI

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IFPTI provides expertise to help government regulatory agencies and organizations around the globe build a professional workforce. Through the development of organizational analysis, curriculum standards, learning design and development, training, and applied leadership programs, our team provides solutions to successfully implement workforce capacity strategies.

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NSF

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NSF’s mission is to protect public human and planet health through the development of consensus national standards and the inspection / testing / certification of products to those standards. Public health regulators, product manufacturers, retailers and consumers rely on NSF standards and certifications in the areas of food and food equipment, water treatment and transmission, dietary supplements, and environmental protection. Founded in 1944 at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, NSF professionals include engineers, microbiologists, toxicologists, chemists, information technologists, and public health experts who provide services to companies in more than 100 countries. NSF is a World Health Organization Collaborating Center for food, water, toxicology and medical devices

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Partnership for Food Protection

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The Training and Credentialing workgroup’s goal is to help develop standard curricula and certification programs that will promote consistency and competency among the IFSS workforce.

In partnership with FDA’s Office of Training Education and Development (OTED) and the International Food Protection Training Institute (IFPTI), this workgroup is developing a National Curriculum Standard (NCS) for regulatory enforcement professionals. Multiple frameworks have been created representing retail and manufactured food, animal food, and laboratory competencies needed by regulatory professionals to fulfill the duties and tasks of their job. Establishing a NCS gets us one step closer to a competent workforce doing comparable work across all strategic partners.

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FoodShield/SAFHER

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Come visit the joint FoodSHIELD and SAFHER booth at the 2024 AFDO AEC.  FoodSHIELD is a secure, cloud-based collaboration platform that facilitates cross-organizational collaboration to accomplish food safety and public health goals.  SAFHER, or the System for Agriculture, Food, Heath, Electronic- Inspections and Registrations, is an enterprise platform for agencies to conduct regulatory activities such as licensing, renewals, product registration, inspections, compliance and enforcement, complaints, reporting and so much.  Stop by to learn more and get your questions answered!

Exhibitor Information

The exhibition space will be adjacent to the General Session meeting rooms. Fees include:

Exhibit space during the Annual Conference from Sunday, June 9, 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., Monday, June 10, and Tuesday, June 11, 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., and Wednesday, June 12, 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m.

One 6’ skirted table, two side chairs, one 120V Electrical Outlet, and a wastebasket per exhibit space.

One Full Conference registration and one ½-price registration.

Exhibitor listing on the AFDO website with a link to your organization’s website.

Exhibitors will be recognized in the Conference program.

Upon request, an electronic list of participants will be provided to each Exhibitor following the Conference.

Exhibit space selections will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis and are not guaranteed until receipt of payment.
Limitations: We cannot grant exhibit space to vendors of products or services regulated by food, drug, or device government regulatory officials.

Exhibitor Hours

Sun, June 9th

1 p.m. ~ 4:30 p.m.

6:30 p.m. ~ 7:30 p.m. (during the Welcome Reception)

Mon, June 10th

7 a.m. ~ 8 a.m. (during Breakfast)

1 p.m. ~ 5:30 p.m. (during the 3pm break)

Tue, June 11th

7 a.m. ~ 8 a.m. (during Breakfast)

1 p.m. ~ 6:30 p.m. (during the 3pm break, and the President’s Reception)

Wed, June 12th

7:30 a.m. ~ 10:30 a.m.

(Tear down from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.)

Exhibitor Setup

Exhibitor Game

Each attendee will be given a card with all exhibitor names. Any attendee who visits every exhibitor and gets their card stamped will be entered into a drawing for a prize.