Food Safety Matters
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.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 263
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Ep. 53. Cindy Jiang: How McDonald’s Collaborates with Stakeholders Worldwide
Cindy Jiang is senior director, Global Food and Packaging Safety, Global Supply Chain & Sustainability, for McDonald’s Corporation. Her responsibilities include leading global supplier quality manage…
Ep. 52. Joan Menke-Schaenzer: Navigating Foodborne Outbreaks and Recalls
Joan Menke-Schaenzer is the chief quality officer at Van Drunen Farms and FutureCeuticals. There, she is responsible for the safety and quality of the company's vegetable and herb growing and process…
Ep. 51. Bob Powitz: The Right Way to Clean and Sanitize—Part II
Dr. Robert (Bob) Powitz is the principal and technical director of R.W.Powitz & Associates. There, he specializes in forensic sanitation services to industry, law firms, insurance companies, and gove…
Ep. 50. Bob Powitz: The Right Way to Clean and Sanitize—Part I
Dr. Robert (Bob) Powitz is the principal and technical director of R.W.Powitz & Associates. There, he specializes in forensic sanitation services to industry, law firms, insurance companies, and gove…
IFC: Pest Management and FSMA
In this BONUS episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak to Jerry Heath (staff entomologist) and Sharon Dobush (director of technical services) from the Industrial Fumigant Company (IFC) about how to s…
Ep. 49. Jeff Farber: Listeria and Emerging Food Safety Threats
Jeff Farber is the director of the Canadian Research Institute for Food Safety and head of the University of Guelph's Food Safety and Quality Assurance M.Sc. program. Farber's most well-known work …
Ep. 48: Live from the Food Safety Summit
At the 21st annual Food Safety Summit in Rosemont, IL, editorial director Barbara VanRenterghem sat down with four food safety pros for real-time insight on the Summit sessions, topics, trends, and m…
Tetra Pak: Advances in Successful Dairy Separation
In this BONUS episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak to Fredrik Johansson, manager of separators at Tetra Pak. In this chat, Fredrik discusses dairy separation, its history, challenges, best practi…
Ep. 47. Craig Wilson: Costco’s Food Safety Leadership
Craig Wilson is the vice president, general merchandising manager of quality assurance/food safety, non-foods quality assurance, environmental services/HAZMAT and merchandise services for Costco Whol…
Ep. 46. GFSI: Yiannas, Jespersen, and Robach Weigh In on the Conference
Lone Jespersen is principal of Cultivate, an organization dedicated to helping food manufacturers globally make safe, great tasting food through cultural effectiveness. Lone has significant experienc…
Ep. 45. David Acheson: The Challenges of Communicating Food Safety to Consumers
Dr. David Acheson, is the founder and CEO of The Acheson Group and brings more than 30 years of medical and food safety research and experience to provide strategic advice as well as recall and crisi…
Ep. 44. Jeremy Zenlea: C-Stores—Food Safety on the Go
Jeremy Zenlea is the director of corporate food safety at Cumberland Farms, Inc. In this role, he oversees all aspects of food safety, including regulatory compliance, retail and commissary food safe…
Ep. 43. Samuel Godefroy: Food Regulations on a Global Scale
Samuel Godefroy is a professor of risk analysis and regulatory policies in the Department of Food Science at the University of Laval in Quebec, Canada. Currently, he leads the development of a Food R…
Neogen: Meet MSU’s Food Processing and Innovation Center
This BONUS episode of Food Safety Matters is all about Michigan State University's Food Processing and Innovation Center (FPIC). The Center, the first of its kind in the U.S., will be Michigan's lead…
Ep. 42. Joe Stout: Sanitation and Hygienic Design in the Food Plant
Joe Stout is the founder of Commercial Food Sanitation, a consulting firm that provides food safety and sanitation solutions to food processing plants. Before that, Joe spent nearly 30 years at Kraft…
Ep. 41. Sara Mortimore: HACCP—A Practical Approach
Sara Mortimer is the vice president of product safety, quality, and regulatory affairs for Land O’Lakes. Over her 30-year career, Sara has worked to ensure the safety and quality of some of the world…
Ep. 40. Chris Elliott: Food Crime: A Global Challenge
Professor Chris Elliott is the founder of the Institute for Global Food Security and professor of food safety at Queen’s University Belfast. From 2016–2018, he served as pro-vice-chancellor of the Fa…
Ep. 39: 2018: The Year of the Outbreak
As 2018 comes to an end, the Food Safety Matters team, along with Bob Ferguson of Strategic Consulting Inc., sat down to discuss the biggest moments in food safety this year, and what we have to look…
Ep. 38. Maria Lapinski: Risk Communication and Social Media
Dr. Maria Lapinski is a joint professor in the Department of Communication and Michigan Ag-Bio Research at Michigan State University (MSU). She served as the associate dean for research for the Colle…
Ep. 37. Keith Warriner: Produce, Biosensors, and Successful Research
Dr. Keith Warriner is a professor of food science at the University of Guelph. He is also the food science graduate coordinator of the department’s Master of Science and Ph.D. food science programs.
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