This episode of Food Safety Matters includes an interview with Mark Wittrock, Director of the Food, Agriculture, and Veterinary Defense Division at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), about the mission and progress of this relatively new division at DHS. We also have an update from Bob Ferguson of Strategic Consulting on his latest Food Safety Insights column on “Supply Chain Woes—What is at Stake, and What Will Change?”
In this BONUS episode of Food Safety Matters we put mycotoxins in the spotlight with Justyce Jedlicka and Sally Powell-Price of MilliporeSigma. We discuss the history of mycotoxins, and the threat they pose to our food supply, as well as what you can do to keep them away from your plant and your products.
In this episode of Food Safety Matters we speak with Mitzi Baum from STOP Foodborne Illness, and Steve Mandernach and Jennifer Pierquet, of the Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO) about how their organizations are working together on recall modernization under the framework of the New Era of Smarter Food Safety Blueprint. You’ll learn a lot about what they feel needs to be improved and the work they are doing with FDA to make those much-needed changes.
In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak with Kerry Bridges, Vice President of Food Safety at Chipotle Mexican Grill, about meeting the food safety challenges inherent in foodservice with robust programs, food safety culture, and recovering from the 2015 norovirus outbreaks.
In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we hear from Dr. Brittany Campbell of the National Pest Management Association on all the work they do to protect public health, food, and property. We also hear from Bob Ferguson of Strategic Consulting about his conversation with authors of the FDA study of the economic evaluation of the Genome Trakr Whole Genome Sequencing program.
In this BONUS episode of Food Safety Matters, you’ll hear from three solution experts at OHAUS about how your lab equipment can help improve your processes and food safety outcomes.
In this episode of Food Safety Matters we look back on the five-part Global Food Safety Culture Webinar Series with presenters Lone Jespersen of Cultivate and Jonathan Walsh of 3M Food Safety to uncover lessons learned and insights gained from their tour with leading food safety practitioners from around the world.
In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak with Bonnie McClafferty about her work with the EatSafe Project, which gathers consumer- and vendor-related research and evidence on traditional markets to provide the basis for consumer-driven demand for safe food. This episode also features an interview with Steve Mandernach, Executive Director of AFDO about the results of their 2021 State Food Safety Resource Survey.
In this episode, we speak with Nuno Soares, Ph.D., about his interesting career journey in food safety and the Saving Lives Officer concept he coined, and Bob Ferguson about his latest Food Safety Insights Column: 5 Years Later, Part 1.