Name: Recall Readiness: How to Conduct a Mock Recall and Ensure Traceability
Start: 2025-02-11T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-11T00:00:00-05:00

Recall Readiness: How to Conduct a Mock Recall and Ensure Traceability

2/11/25 2:00 pm to 2/11/26 EST

Contact: Vania Halabou

In this webinar, experts from the industry, regulatory, and legal sectors will help you understand how to be prepared in the event of a recall, and how your company can efficiently handle the recall process. Recall specialist and industry veteran Bob Manning will cover how to conduct a mock recall, and legal expert Shawn Stevens will discuss how companies should be legally prepared to handle a recall and ensure traceability along the supply chain. Additionally, FDA Acting Recalls Branch Director Arma White will explain how the agency works with companies to initiate and effect a recall for food products covered by FDA, and how to help ensure traceability for recalls.

From this webinar, attendees will learn:

How to become recall-ready—e.g., by conducting a "mock recall" at your company—and how to efficiently handle a recall event
Legal considerations to keep in mind during a recall event
The importance of ensuring traceability along the supply chain
How FDA works with companies to initiate and effect recalls

Speakers:

Robert (Bob) Manning, M.B.A., M.S., M.E.M., Founder and Principal Consultant, Manning Resource LLC. Robert (Bob) Manning, M.B.A., M.S., M.E.M. has worked in the food and beverage industry for over 30 years in various facility and senior corporate positions. He is Founder and Principal Consultant at Manning Resource LLC, and previously worked as Vice President of Technical Operations at Niagara Bottling. He has spent most of his time in operations and quality roles for large companies such as HP Hood LLC, Campbell's Soup, and Niagara Bottling, as well as consulting for major domestic and international firms. He is also the author of In the Midst of a Recall: Recall Management and Prevention Strategies in Real World Scenarios, which walks the reader through what actually happens in a major product recall. Bob holds a B.S. degree in Biology from Salem State University, an M.B.A. and a master's degree in engineering management from Western New England University, a master's degree in food safety from Michigan State University, and a master's degree in strategic management and executive leadership from Pennsylvania State University.

Shawn Stevens, J.D., Food Industry Lawyer and Founder, Food Industry Counsel LLC. Shawn Stevens, J.D., is a National Food Industry Lawyer and the Founding Member of Food Industry Counsel LLC, the only law firm in the U.S. that represents the food industry exclusively. As a food industry consultant and lawyer, Mr. Stevens works with food industry clients, helping them protect their brand by complying with FDA and USDA regulations, reducing risk, managing recalls, and defending high-profile foodborne illness claims. Mr. Stevens also speaks regularly to national and international audiences on a wide variety of emerging scientific, regulatory and food safety legal trends.

Arma White, Acting Branch Director, Recalls Branch, U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Arma N. White is the Acting Branch Director for the Recalls Branch at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Human Foods Program's Office of Compliance and Enforcement. In this role, she provides leadership and guidance for recall activities carried out by branch members. White has an extensive background in retail food inspections, compliance, and foodborne illness outbreaks. Prior to her current role, she served as a Consumer Safety Officer in both the Human Foods Program Recalls Branch and the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) Office of Compliance, where she specialized in recalls and recall activities, as well as domestic and international enforcement actions. She has also served as an Agency Emergency Coordinator in the Office of Emergency Operations and as an Emergency Coordinator on the CFSAN Emergency Coordination and Response Team. Prior to joining the Federal government, White worked at the State of Georgia Environmental Food Safety Division. She holds a B.S. degree in Microbiology from Auburn University.

Moderator: Adrienne Blume, Editorial Director, Food Safety Magazine

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