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Most of the speaker presentations are now up! We have a few more which we will upload once it is ready.

You can access the speaker talks here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Mqw1bNwwsYWkyztYDNG5t7PFayYy-oP1

Hello everyone,

Photo highlights from our food safety workshop have now been posted up on our google drive.

You can view them here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Zu8bDscjRHNtznLFkvZCX6GqmlO5L51k

Our early bird deadline has been extended to Monday, Oct 15th! Register today to take advantage! This is to give those with payment issues time to register and pay online, now that our new payment system is now live and running (we no longer use PayPal). Please let us know if you encounter any issues.

Click here for registration, schedule, confirmed speakers, sponsorship and other workshop information - https://www.bcfoodprotection.ca/event-3055232

Hello all,

Our Afffinipay payment system is now live so we no longer use PayPal. If you encounter any payment-related issues during registration of our workshop, please do not hesitate to reach us.

Thank you!

We are taking in award nominations from our BCFPA members. Awards will be presented at our Annual General Meeting in January 2019.

There are 3 categories:
BCFPA Food Safety Award
BCFPA President's Award
BCFPA Lifetime Achievement Award

Deadline to submit nominations is Oct 18, 2018. We will have physical copies of the nomination forms for members to fill out at our Workshop. If you wish to submit the nominations form ahead of time, please click on the forms below:

BCFPA Awards Nomination Form (pdf) - click here
BCFPA Awards Nomination Form (online form) - click here

We will have physical copies of the nomination forms for members to fill out at our Workshop. Alternatively, you can fill in and submit the nominations form (pdf) and send it back to us, or fill in this electronic nomination form (Google form) and submit to us.

How are the award selected?
Selections for awards will be made by the Awards Committee &/or Executive Board. Awards need not be given annually. Please refer to Article VII.G. of the By-Laws (pages 11 and 12) for a full description of award requirements.

What is the award?
Awards will consist of honorariums or gifts as deemed appropriate by the Executive. The Lifetime Achievement award also grants the recipient honorary lifetime membership in the BC Food Protection Association.

How do I submit an award nomination? We have three options:
1. Fill out the award nominations form (pdf) and email it back to the BCFPA President;
2. Fill out the electronic version of the award nominations form (via Google form) to submit; or
3. Fill out the physical form on the day of the Oct 18th workshop and hand it back to us.
E-mail: info@bcfoodprotection.ca

Hello all,

You can now access and read up on our full line of speakers for our food safety workshop scheduled for Oct 18, 2018.

Speaker bios and abstracts - click here

Click here for registration, schedule, confirmed speakers, sponsorship and other workshop information - https://www.bcfoodprotection.ca/event-3055232

Keep in mind that our early bird deadline has been extended to Oct 12, 2018.

Hi everyone,

Our PayPal registration is now back online and working again. You are welcome to register for our food safety workshop at any time! Keep in mind we still plan on switching to Affinipay once they complete the payment set-up.

We thank you for your patience and continued support. Let us know if you encounter any more issues.

Kind regards,
Stephanie

The Fall 2018 Affiliate View is now available on the IAFP website under the Publications tab at: https://www.foodprotection.org/publications/affiliate-view/

Hi all,

We have extended our early bird deadline to October 12th due to our PayPal registration issues. We are doing the best we can to set up a new payment system to replace PayPal. We hope Affinipay will complete the set up and paperwork this week. We will let you know once our new payment system is up and running.

We thank you for your patience and continued support, and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

In the meantime, if you would like to maintain the early bird registration cost, you can just register to generate the invoice, and pay later, and this will allow you to pay the early bird rate even after Oct 12th.

Our speaker bios will be up on our website soon. Please check our schedule for recent changes to our speaker times.

As always, please let your colleagues and coworkers know about our food safety workshop! We have a huge line up of well known speakers from out of town!

4th October 2018 - PayPal is now once more accepting payments.  We don't foresee any further issues in accepting credit card payment.  Our apologies for the inconvenience.

Hello all,

Please accept our apologies for the issues related to payment for the Fall Workshop registration. For those who have registered, be assured we have received your application and you are on the participant list and you are guaranteed at the early registration rate. 

We are experiencing issues with the link to PayPal, our current payment processor, and intend to resolve that by switching to Affinipay who have set up a partnership with our website provider. This will take a few more days to complete and we will send out a notification at that time when you will be able to pay the invoice for registrations.

Once we notify you that our payment system is active those who have registerd can go to the invoice, link in the email you received at registration, and pay online, or  you can log into the website and look up your invoices.

Early registration will be extended until October 12th.

Sincerely,
Simon Cowell, BCFPA Treasurer