Straight Talk. People Led. Science Based. Technology Enabled. The vision of this podcast is to elevate the global conversation on food safety by combining scientific rigor, real-world leadership experience, and forward-looking, creative thinking - sparking solutions that protect public health, strengthen systems, and inspire collective action. Why This Podcast - and Why Now Food safety awareness is at an all-time high, there's an almost daily drumbeat of outbreaks and recalls

The recent recall of By Heart’s powdered infant formula (PIF) is a major food safety event—one that should prompt all stakeholders to pause and critically examine not just what happened, but what must improve going forward. While recent FDA Warning Letters to major retailers are capturing headlines, the more important question is how this situation could have been prevented in the first place—so that a recall was never necessary at all? The company has had prior food safety i

It’s Thanksgiving week and, while there are certainly plenty of negative stories related to foodborne outbreaks, you may have noticed that you haven’t seen any news about romaine lettuce recalls this year. Unfortunately, these types of recalls and advisories were common around this time in years past—but not over the last few years. Between 2009 and 2018, the FDA and CDC identified 40 foodborne outbreaks of Shiga toxin–producing E. coli  (STEC) infections in the U.S. with a