HIGHLIGHTS
Food Safety Matters is the podcast for food safety professionals, hosted by Food Safety Magazine—the leading media brand in food safety for over 20 years. Each episode features a conversation with a food safety professional sharing their experiences and insights on the important job of safeguarding the world’s food supply. New episodes are posted twice per month; a selection of our recent episodes are highlighted below.
Episode 186: Outlining an Action Plan for FSMA 204 Compliance
Lucelena (Lucy) Angarita, Director of Food Supply Chain Visibility, GS1 US
Lucy discusses how companies along the supply chain are working toward achieving compliance with FSMA 204, the Food Traceability Final Rule, in January 2026, as well as technicalities of the Rule that companies should keep in mind.
Episode 185: Global Food Safety Innovation to ‘Feed the Future’
Haley F. Oliver, Ph.D., Director, Feed the Future Food Safety Innovation Lab, Purdue University
In this episode, Dr. Oliver discusses the five-year extension of the Feed the Future Food Safety Innovation Lab (FSIL), enabled by $10 million in funding from USAID. FSIL's work enables improvements in global food safety through targeted projects in Kenya, Cambodia, Nepal, and beyond.
Episode 184: Hottest Topics of 2024: Outbreaks, Food Chemicals, FDA Changes, and More
Food Safety Matters Podcast Team
In this episode, the podcast team discusses the top food safety stories of 2024 and their implications, including high-profile foodborne illness outbreaks, the ongoing avian flu outbreak in poultry and dairy cattle, FDA's Human Foods Program restructuring, rising concerns and evolving legislation around food additives and chemical contaminants, and other topics.
Episode 183: Advocating for Strong Federal Food Safety Regulation
Thomas Gremillion, J.D., M.A., Director of Food Policy, Consumer Federation of America (CFA) and coordinator of the Safe Food Coalition
In this episode, Thomas discusses the Consumer Federation of America's (CFA's) advocacy for stronger federal food safety regulation. We also discuss CFA's perspectives on current food safety regulatory hot topics.
Episode 182: Making the Case for Cell-Based Meats and Plant-Based Proteins
Paul Shapiro, CEO of The Better Meat Co. and author of Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World
Paul talks to Food Safety Matters about the food safety and sustainability advantages offered by various novel alternative protein products, their current regulatory oversight, and hurdles they must overcome before being scaled up and widely accepted by governments and consumers.
