Center for Food Safety to Exhibit at Expo West 2026 (Booth #1726 in Hall B)
25 February 2026, San Francisco: Center for Food Safety (CFS), the leading nonprofit legal organization working on food and agriculture issues in the U.S., is attending Expo West 2026 to stand alongside natural and organic food brands, and to make clear that the Organic label matters only if it is defended.
CFS works at the intersection of law, science, and advocacy to ensure that “Organic” means what consumers think it does. Since federal organic standards were first proposed in the 1990s, we have watchdogged organic production standards, provided expert pro bono legal counsel, and gone to court when necessary to prevent loopholes and weaken the standard’s integrity. From whether pesticides and genetically engineered crops are permissible to safeguarding animal welfare requirements for organic livestock, CFS fights to keep the Organic label honest. CFS attends Expo West to support brands doing the right thing, and to hold regulators and corporations accountable for undermining trust in our food system.
“At CFS, we believe every consumer—regardless of income, age, or race—has the right to know how their food is produced and which chemicals are used to grow it,” said James Knight, Director of Operations and Institutional Giving. “Expo West is where values meet the marketplace, and the law is one of the strongest tools we have to protect both.”
Our work extends beyond organic integrity to the fundamental right to know what is in our food and what we feed our families. We achieved the first-ever mandated genetically engineered food labeling, and we have successfully challenged in court false and misleading food product labeling.
CFS also wins lawsuits to stop the use of toxic pesticides that harm pollinators, wildlife, and human health. Our landmark body of caselaw covers everything from drift-prone herbicides like Monsanto’s dicamba, to cancer-causing glyphosate, pesticide-coated, neonicotinoid seeds that kill birds and bees, to protecting monarch butterflies under the Endangered Species Act from pesticide harms, as well as the recent alarming use of PFAS “forever chemicals” as pesticides on food crops.
Center for Food Safety’s Booth #1726 in Hall B
All are welcome to visit the Center for Food Safety booth to learn how to take on some of the most dangerous threats to our food, farms, and environment—and win.
Co-Executive Director Sylvia Wu and Director of Operations James Knight will be on hand to share the inside story of our biggest victories, the battles we’re waging right now, and what’s next in the fight to defend food safety and the planet.
What to Expect
A look at the critical fights ahead, including our newest legal challenge to the Trump Administration’s approval of the fungicide cyclobutrifluram, a new chemical fungicide that poses serious health risks, including endocrine disruption and respiratory issues.
A brief overview of the connection between pesticides, GMOs, and their impacts on human and species health.
The inside story of how CFS, with your support, has put in place meaningful protections.
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