of environmental health. We must solve problems of waste disposal, insect and rodent control, air pollution, housing, radiological poisoning and many others. Additionally, with more Americans eating out more often than ever before, the food service industry has become an area of responsibility such as would have been impossible for our founding Members to imagine. Recently the packaging of prepared foods of the 'heat and eat' variety has developed as a rapidly expanding industry that poses new sanitation problems for you to solve." The name of the association was changed after a mail ballot in members at large in response to the expanded scope of the Association, the International Association of Milk, Food and Environmental Sanitarians (IAMFES). Annual meeting The IAFP annual meeting is held in late July or early August each year, and boasts an attendance of over 2,200 people from U.S. and foreign local and federal governments, academia, food safety consultants and the food industry. Recent and future meeting locations are as follows: 2011—Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2012—Providence, Rhode Island 2013—Charlotte, North Carolina 2014—Indianapolis, Indiana 2015—Portland, Oregon 2016—St. Louis, Missouri 2017—Tampa, Florida 2018—Salt Lake City, Utah 2019—Louisville, Kentucky 2020—Cleveland, Ohio 2021—Phoenix, Arizona References IAFP History Book 1911-2001 IAFP Annual Meeting Organizations established in 1911 Food technology organizations Food safety organizations Professional associations based in the United States Organizations based in Des Moines, Iowa