Food Safety Matters

by Food Safety Magazine

Food Safety Matters is a podcast for food safety professionals hosted by the Food Safety Magazine editorial team – the leading media brand in food safety for over 20 years. Each episode will feature a conversation with a food safety professional sharing their experiences and insights into the important job of safeguarding the world’s food supply.

Episodes

Ep. 3. Lone Jespersen: "Culture comes first"

53m · Published 13 Jun 09:00

Lone Jespersen is a principal at Cultivate (http://www.cultivatefoodsafety.com) an organization dedicated to helping food manufacturers globally make safe, great tasting food through cultural effectiveness.Lone has significant experience with food manufacturing, having previously spent 11 years with Maple Leaf Foods.Following the tragic event in 2008 when Maple Leaf products claimed 23 Canadian lives, Lone lead the execution of the Maple Leaf Foods, food safety strategy and its operations learning strategy.

Prior to that, Lone worked for Woodbridge Foam as the engineering and operations manager responsible for the safety and quality of automobile safety products. Lone holds a Master's degree in mechanicalengineering from Syd Dansk University, Denmark, a Master of food science from the University of Guelph, Canada and is presently pursuing her Ph.D. on Culture Enabled Food Safety with Dr. Mansel Griffiths at the University of Guelph, Canada.

Lone currently serves as chair of the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) technical working group on Food Safety Culture, a group dedicated to characterizing and quantifying food safety culture across the global food industry from farm to fork.

In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak to Lone Jespersen about:

Her time at Maple Leaf Foods when a Listeria monocytogenes outbreak claimed the lives of 23 Canadians.
Moving forward and how Maple Leaf Foods transformed their entire food safety approach.
The elaborate 4-tier food safety program implemented at Maple Leaf Foods.
Elevating the importance offood safety culture within a business.
How trade associations can help to enforce the impact that food safety really has.
Her involvement with the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI).
TheFood Safety Magazine2017 series on food safety culture and how every sector within the food industry can benefit from reading the series.
Food safety maturity of culture
Balancing food safety with other business goals.

Ep. 2. Larry Keener: "Food safety is manufactured"

52m · Published 23 May 08:00

Larry Keener has a long record of involvement, both nationally and internationally, with food industry issues. He isthe current vice president and co-chair of the Austrian-basedGlobal Harmonization Initiative (http://www.globalharmonization.net/), an organization founded in 2004 to promote harmonization of food safety legislation and regulations. He ispresident and chief executive officer of Seattle-basedInternational Product Safety Consultants, Inc. (http://www.foodsafetyprofessionals.com/)—a global leader in providing food safety and food technology solutions to the food processing industry for a broad client base of Fortune 500 food companies, academicresearchinstitutes, and government agencies. Also, Larryhas written and published more than 100 scientific papers and numerous book chapters on food safety,microbiology, and process validation.He is a frequently invited speaker to the foodindustry, business and scientific conferences, workshops, and seminars.

Larry is an internationally regarded microbiologist and process authority in the food industry, and frequently works with food companies in this capacity to communicate the processor's regulatory responsibilities, assess risk and adequacy of controls for entire processing operations from raw materials receipt to finished product storage and distribution, and provide advice and direction with regard to regulatory impact and food safety risk that changes in operations might cause. As such, his areas of expertise range from applied food microbiology and sanitation methods, the development and application of thermal and non-thermal processing and preservation technologies, including high-pressure processing, microwave and pulsed electric field, high-powered ultrasound and design and implementation of food safety management and control systems and strategies.

Finally,Food Safety Magazineis proud to have Larry as a member of our editorial advisory board.

In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak to Larry Keener about:

His leadership role with the Global Harmonization Initiative
Fourcutting-edgetechnologies in food processing
How regulatory agencies react to new food processing and manufacturing technologies
What it's like working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Food Safety Inspection Service when presenting new food processing methods and technologies
How many of you are in manufacturing? Understanding your role in making food safe
Acceptance of hygienic facility design
Larry's thoughts on the possibility of reduced government funding for food safety initiatives
Larry's scheduled Keynote Address at the2017 Institute of Food Technologists-European Federation of Food Science and Technology International Nonthermal Processing Conferencehttps://www.ifsh.iit.edu/2017-ift-effost-international-non-thermal-processing-workshop-short-course

Larry Keener's Articles Published inFood Safety Magazine:

Novel Food Safety Technologies Emerge in Food Production (Feb/March 2015)http://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/magazine-archive1/februarymarch-2015/novel-food-safety-technologies-emerge-in-food-production/

Shedding Light on Food Safety: Applications of Pulsed Light Processing (June/July 2014)http://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/magazine-archive1/junejuly-2014/shedding-light-on-food-safety-applications-of-pulsed-light-processing/

The Squeaky Wheel: Is Transportation the Watershed for Food Safety and Food Defense?(Aug/Sep 2013) http://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/magazine-archive1/augustseptember-2013/the-squeaky-wheel-is-transporation-the-watershed-for-food-safety-and-food-defense/

Ex Ante or Ex Post Food Safety Strategies: Process Validation versus Inspection and Testing (June/July 2011)
http://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/magazine-archive1/junejuly-2011/ex-ante-or-ex-post-food-safety-strategies-process-validation-versus-inspection-and-testing/

Hurdling New Technology Challenges: Investing in Process Validation of Novel Technologies (Feb/March 2006)
http://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/magazine-archive1/februarymarch-2006/hurdling-new-technology-challenges-investing-in-process-validation-of-novel-technologies/

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Bob Ferguson's Food Safety Insights Articles:

Food Safety Insights: A Look at the Microbiology Testing Market (Feb/March 2017)
http://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/magazine-archive1/februarymarch-2017/a-look-at-the-microbiology-testing-market/

Food Safety Insights: The Drivers of Differences in Food Safety Testing Practices (April/May 2017)
http://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/magazine-archive1/aprilmay-2017/the-drivers-of-differences-in-food-safety-testing-practices/

What Industry and FDA Are Thinking About FSMA Implementation(June/July 2017)
http://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/magazine-archive1/junejuly-2017/what-industry-and-fda-are-thinking-about-fsma-implementation/

A Closer Look at Environmental Monitoring in the Processing Plant(August/September 2017)
https://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/magazine-archive1/augustseptember-2017/a-closer-look-at-environmental-monitoring-in-the-processing-plant/

News and Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

FSMA Tips Dominate 2017 Food Safety Summit
http://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/news/fsma-tips-dominate-2017-food-safety-summit/

Presenting Sponsor for this episode is Roka Bioscience (http://www.rokabio.com)

Ep. 1. Dave Theno: "No one cooks their salad"

52m · Published 09 May 04:00

David M. Theno, Ph.D., is currently CEO of Gray Dog Partners, Inc., a Del Mar California-basedtechnical consulting business specializing in food safety, food manufacturing, restaurant operations, supply chain managementand strategic planning.

Theno is most widely known for the role he assumed with Jack in the Box (JIB) after thefast-foodchain experienced a tragic and massive foodborne illness outbreak in 1993. He joined the team as JIB'ssenior vice president and chief food safety officer, developinga comprehensive Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Pointsplan for the chain, as well as a finished product testing protocol that initially irked his former meatindustrycolleagues.

Thenoalso held previous food safety and quality management roles withFoster Farms, Kellogg’s, Armour Food Companyand Peter Eckrich & Sons, Inc.He holds a B.Sc. in zoology and science journalism from Iowa StateUniversity and earned both M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in food microbiology and animal sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

We regret to share that we lost Dave Theno was taken from us unexpectedly as aresultof a swimming accident on June 20, 2017. Dave's generous offer to have listeners call him was 100%genuine, and an example of the important role of mentor that he so completely embodied. You can read more about how the industry remembered Dave Theno in ourAugust/September 2017 issue.(https://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/magazine-archive1/augustseptember-2017/dave-theno-remembering-the-man-behind-the-headlines)

In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak to Dave Theno about:

His evolution from zoology and veterinary medicine to food safety
The value of knowing yourfood safety metrics
The importance of effective communication in food science
Tips and advice for the new generation of food safety professionals
Dave's thoughts on industry collaboration and whether food companies should be sharing best practices
Find out what Dave carries in his briefcase as a daily reminder of the vital food safety work he does
Dave's thoughts on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the newly appointed Agriculture Secretary, as well as Dave's offer to President Donald Trump
What the future of food safety really requires to improve

Introduction to Food Safety Matters

3m · Published 24 Apr 01:05

Food Safety Magazine's editorial team talks about what to expect from our new podcast — Food Safety Matters.

Food Safety Matters has 234 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 226:56:30. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 6th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 31st, 2024 12:12.