Live from the 2026 Food Safety Summit—Part 2
About this episode
This episode features discussions from the 2026 Food Safety Summit with various experts on food safety topics.
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. , Senior Vice President of Regulatory and Scientific Affairs for the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA); Steven Mandernach, J.D. , Executive Director of the Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO) and Sandra Eskin, J.D. , CEO of STOP Foodborne Illness; Jacob Nelson , Asset Protection Sales Manager at the Sherwin-Williams Company and Feraas Aiameh , Food and Beverage Marketing Manager at the Sherwin-Williams Company; Conrad Choiniere, Ph.D. , Director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Office of Microbiological Food Safety, Vanessa Coffman, Ph.D. , Director of the Alliance to Stop Foodborne Illness, and Lone Jespersen, Ph.D. , Founder and Principal of Cultivate SA; and Cindy Jiang , Senior Director, Global Food Safety Risk Management, Global Supply Chain at McDonald's (retired). In this episode of Food Safety Matters , we speak with: Ms. Wagner about food ingredient safety and labeling trends, policy developments, and risk communication [2:48] Mr. Mandernach and Ms. Eskin about progress and gaps in the implementation…
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