Retail & Meal Delivery Food Safety Fails with Michelle Wollenzien from The Food Safety Exchange Podcast | Episode 169

About this episode

In this episode, hosts Matt and Francine discuss food safety failures in retail and meal delivery with expert Michelle Wollenzien.

🍽️ Francine and Matt are building a global, fun, and inclusive Food Safety Family ! From the C-suite to the kitchen, they’re making safe food the norm everywhere. 👉 Follow Francine and Matt on LinkedIn for more food safety insights and updates. Food safety failures don’t always start with massive outbreaks or nationwide recalls. Sometimes, they start with a bowl of homemade gumbo sitting in a grocery store display case. In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine sit down with food safety consultant and Food Safety Exchange host Michelle Wollenzien to unpack decades of retail food safety experience, convenience food risks, meal delivery disasters, food safety culture breakdowns, and why technology is moving faster than food safety compliance. From improperly reheated meal kits to mystery gumbo in a self-service case, this episode dives deep into the real-world chaos happening behind the scenes of prepared foods, retail grocery operations, airline catering, and modern food delivery systems. In this episode: 00:00:00 Meet Food Safety Expert Michelle Wollenzien 00:08:02 Convenience Food Safety Risks 00:14:30 The Homemade Gumbo Food Safety Incident 00:20:08…

People in this episode

Hosts: Matthew Regusci, Francine L Shaw

Guest: Michelle Wollenzien

Topics covered

• food safety
• retail food safety
• meal delivery
• foodborne illness
• food safety culture
• technology in food safety

Keywords

• food safety
• meal delivery disasters
• convenience food risks
• foodborne illness investigations
• food safety culture
• technology compliance
• retail grocery operations

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Organizations: The Food Safety Exchange Podcast

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