CEED 2025 – 8th Annual Environmental Health Summit: What’s in our Food?

CEED 8th Annual

Environmental Health Summit

What's in our Food?

October 10, 2025

9:00 AM to 4:00 PM

New Brunswick, New Jersey

Thank you for participating

Featured Speakers

Nikki Baker, NJWEC
Emily Barrett, Rutgers University
Kerry Margaret Butch, Rutgers University
Alex Carolea, City Green
Cara Cuite, SEBS
Ilise Feitshans, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
Nurgul Fitzgerald, Rutgers University
Mackenzie Ferrante, Rutgers University
Tobias A. Fox, Facilitator of the Newark Community Food System
Amy Goldsmith, Clean Water Action
Charlie Kratovil, Food and Water Watch
Rob Laumbach, Rutgers University
Norah McKendrick, Rutgers University
Joshua Miller, Rutgers University
Alicia Newcomb, C.R.O.P.S.
Don Schaffner, Rutgers University
Zorimar Rivera-Nunez, Rutgers University
Mark Robson, Rutgers University
Shereyl Snider, East Trenton Collaborative
Marta Young, Clear Water Action

From Pesticides and Plastics to Pathogens, Toxic Metals, Additives, and Ultra-Processed Foods—What Are We Really Feeding Our Families?

The chemicals and contaminants in our food impact us all—but children are especially vulnerable. This year’s summit explores how pollutants—from microplastics and heavy metals to synthetic additives and foodborne pathogens—enter our food systems and affect human health.