Ep. 228. Adam Holt, BCE: Smarter Pest Management, From IPM to AI
Adam Holt, BCE is a Board Certified Entomologist with decades of hands-on experience . He is the Founder and Principal Consultant at NameDat...
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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...
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20 of 302 episodesEp. 227. Michael Ciepiela: Gap Assessments, Audit Readiness, and Continuous Improvement
Michael Ciepiela is Vice President of Quality and Continuous Improvement at Southern Specialties. He brings over a decade of diverse experie...
Brashears and Rottenberg: Consumer Education as a Food Safety Essential
Mindy Brashears, Ph.D. is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Under Secretary for Food Safety. She previously served as Under Secr...
Ep. 226: Jules Shepard: From Celiac Disease Advocacy to Gluten-Free Food Manufacturing
Jules Shepard is the CEO and Founder of gfJules, the number-one‑voted gluten‑free flour and baking mixes company in the United States. A rec...
Ep. 225. Yasuda, Boeffard, Boyce: The Stop Alliance Mentorship Program: Lessons Learned and Collaborations Shared
Lily Yasuda is the Deputy Director of the Alliance to Stop Foodborne Illness, where she leads national initiatives that bring together food...
Ep. 224. Rhodes Yepsen: Balancing Food Safety, Sustainability, and Packaging Policy
Rhodes Yepsen joined the Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI) in 2015, where he leads the organization's efforts to promote the value of c...
Ep. 223. Brittney Miller: HACCP, SQF, and Food Safety on America's First Quail Farm
Brittney Miller is President of Manchester Farms, America's first quail farm. What started over 40 years ago as a backyard hobby has grown i...
Live From IAFP with USDA Leaders—New Strategies for Salmonella, AI, and Inspection Tech
Mindy Brashears, Ph.D. is the USDA's Under Secretary for Food Safety. Dr. Brashears previously served as Under Secretary for Food Safety fro...
Ep. 222. Elena Medo: Food Safety Lessons From the Global Infant Formula Cereulide Recall
Elena Medo, M.B.A. is an entrepreneur, researcher, and inventor who has spent nearly 40 years transforming neonatal care through leadership...
Elanco: Summer Fly Pressure, Food Safety, and Smarter IPM in Poultry Houses
Alissa Welsher, Ph.D. is a Senior Consultant at Elanco Poultry Food Safety. Dr. Welsher received a bachelor's degree in biological sciences...
NomadX: Preventing Food Safety Crises—A New Approach to Detection, Decontamination, and Intervention
Lyle Probst is the CEO of NomadX and an accomplished entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience in operations, product development,...
Ep. 221. Dr. Alex LeBeau: The Science Behind Food Contaminant Testing
Alex LeBeau, Ph.D., M.P.H., CIH is the owner of Exposure Assessment Consulting LLC in Orlando, Florida, where he offers toxicology, industri...
MilliporeSigma: Uncharted Territory—Food Risks, Rapid Responses, and the Race to Adapt
Sally Powell Price, PG.Dip., M.Sc. joined MilliporeSigma in 2020 as a Regulatory Subject Matter Expert for Public Health focusing on food sa...
Ep. 220. Ramirez and Hodgson: What it Takes to Build and Maintain an Effective Food Safety Culture
Miguel Ramirez is a seasoned food manufacturing executive with more than three decades of operational leadership experience in the food indu...
Ep. 219: World Food Safety Day 2026
Elaine Borghi, Ph.D. is Unit Head for Monitoring and Surveillance, Nutrition, and Food Safety at the World Health Organization (WHO). Dr. Bo...
Elanco: Spring and Summer Pest Pressure—Smart Insecticide Strategies for Poultry Producers
Alissa Welsher, Ph.D. is a Senior Consultant at Elanco Poultry Food Safety. Dr. Welsher received her bachelor's degree in biological science...
Ep. 218. Dr. Brady Carter: Water Activity, Shelf-Life Validation, and Food Safety Controls
Brady Carter, Ph.D. is the Chief Scientific Officer at Carter Scientific Solutions. He specializes in water activity, moisture sorption, she...
Live from the 2026 Food Safety Summit—Part 2
To get a taste of the discussions that were happening at the 2026 Food Safety Summit, we spoke face-to-face with Roberta Wagner, M.Sc. , Sen...
Live from the 2026 Food Safety Summit—Part 1
To get a taste of the discussions that were happening at the 2026 Food Safety Summit, we spoke face-to-face with Jeremy Zenlea, M.B.A. , Vic...
Ep. 217. Larry Keener: Learnings From an Award-Winning Career in Food Safety
Larry Keener, CFS, PA is President and CEO of International Product Safety Consultants Inc. and an internationally regarded microbiologist a...