Webinar/E-Learning
This Food Safety Webinar/training will discuss the steps can be taken to reduce the risk associated with a food safety outbreak or recall. How to use different systems and models to assess the risk and reduce it.
Course Description
The peanut outbreak in 2009 impacted over 300 processors and caused the recall of over 2100 different products.
The questions come to the front – Which food suppliers represent high risk? Which ones are likely to cause an outbreak associated with E. coli or salmonella? Should your company buy from high risk suppliers? How do you know which suppliers are high risk suppliers? These are the types of concerns wholesalers have about farm suppliers, retailers have about wholesalers and processors have about both. Where do buyers go to determine the food safety level of suppliers?
Insurance companies and the federal government are focusing on assessing food safety risks in efforts to protect the public from death defying illnesses, protect the industry from huge financial losses and protect the nation from dangerous imports. Risk assessment and control is not magic but represents a critical component of any operational plan. When executives press buyers for risk reduction, food safety becomes an integral part of the overall operational strategy and everyone wins.
Attend this Webinar to know the different processes, data resources, systems and models which can be used for risk tracking, risk assessment and risk management. i.e preventive rather than reactive.
Areas Covered in the seminar:
- Risk management represtents a move from a reactive after-the-outbreak mode of operation to a preventive, cost saving, reputation saving strategy.
- Risk of food safety outbreaks as they impact insurance costs.
- Where to find software designed to help assess risk levels.
- Summary of federal legislation: Are they really doing anything?
- Data resources: Online risk assessment resources and setting up your own tracking.
- A mathematical model for risk assessment: What variables should you consider?
- What’s happening on some international fronts? America is falling further behind.
- A sample supplier qualification system based on food safety risk predictors.
- A model for retail driven risk reduction based on supplier typologies.
Who will benefit:
- Food supply chain buyers like
- Farms, restaurants, processors
- Wholesalers and distributors
- Retailers and packers
- Corporate executives
- Federal, state and local officials involved in the food safety arena
Instructor Profile:
Dr. John Ryan, is the Administrator for the Hawaii State Department of Agriculture’s Quality Assurance Division and a co-chair of the newly formed FDA/CDC food protection information technology team. He has spent over 25 years implementing high technology quality control systems for international corporations and is currently implementing Hawaii’s RFID traceability and State Food Safety Certification system.
Dr. Ryan specializes in closed-loop quality control systems employing real-time traceability, sensor measurement devices and process controls. He has recently implemented the country’s first farm-distribution-retail RFID pilot system tracking produce through the food supply chain (Google “Hawaii Food Traceability” or visit http://www.HawaiiFoodSafetyCenter.org.). He is a co-chair of the FDA/CDC information technology food protection team.
