TAG Talks Food Safety

What really keeps food safe? Are your food safety practices as good as they can be? Is good enough ever good enough? While essential to ensure against consumer harm, best practice food safety can be complex, and its intricacies are not always well understood – or well portrayed. In this semi-monthly TAG Talks Food Safety podcast, 35-year food industry veteran Lisa Lupo hosts discussions with Subject Matter Experts from The Acheson Group (TAG) global consultants on current and critical best practices in keeping food safe. Join us as we discuss today’s food trends, their realities, and the responsibilities of each link of the food chain – from grower through manufacturer and retail to consumer.

TAG Talks Food Safety is a science podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 72 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Are You Actually Ready for AI? A Food Safety Reality Check.

  Jul 7, 202655 min

  Show Resources: - https://aifs.ucdavis.edu/ - Alexander CS, Smith A and Ivanek R (2023) Safer not to know? Shaping liability law and policy to incentivize adoption of predictive AI technologies in the food system. Front. Artif. Intell. 6:1298604. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2023.1298604 - Alexander CS, Yarborough M and A Smith (2024) Who is responsible for ‘responsible AI’?: Navigating challenges to build trust in AI agriculture and food system technology. Precision Agric. 25: 146-185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11119-023-10063-3 - Loring PA and Sanyal P (2021) Indicators of Complexity and Over-Complexification in Global Food Systems. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 5:683100. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2021.683100 - Microsoft 2026 Work Trend Index Annual Report: https://assets-c4akfrf5b4d3f4b7.z01.azurefd.net/assets/2026/05/2026_Work_Trend_Index_Annual_Report_050526-7_69fc5b1c4e265.pdf - FDA Warning Letter: https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/purolea-cosmetics-lab-722591-04022026

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  Hazard, Risk, and the Bobcat Problem

  Apr 21, 202652 min

  Every food safety professional has faced some version of this moment: a test comes back positive, a pathogen is detected, and the system kicks into gear. Product gets pulled, resources get deployed, decisions get made. And most of the time, that’s the right call. But what happens when the system responds with equal urgency to a result that poses minimal actual risk to public health? What’s the cost of that response, not just in dollars but in wasted food, wasted energy, and resources diverted from threats that matter more? And who gets to decide what “safe enough” actually means? In this new series of external-expert TAG Talks from The Acheson Group, TAG COO & EVP of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs Dr. Ben Miller welcomes Dr. Martin Wiedmann, lead author of “Balancing Food Safety and Sustainability: Trade-off Risk Assessments and Predictive Modeling,” to answer such questions, discuss why the food safety field needs to get more rigorous about weighing the unintended consequences of its own interventions, and propose new tools, including AI-assisted risk negotiation, to help with that. The post Hazard, Risk, and the Bobcat Problem appeared first on .

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  USDA/FDA: How to Meet the Challenges when You’re Subject to Both

  Mar 25, 202612 min

  Whether you’re challenged by a USDA inspector, dealing with a quality sensory issue, or trying to meet both USDA and FDA requirements, TAG’s newest Director of Food Safety Nikkie Vazquez has solutions for you. In this episode of TAG Talks Food Safety, Host Lisa Lupo and Nikkie discuss these topics, and more, to help single- and dual-jurisdiction facilities keep your products compliant and safe. The post USDA/FDA: How to Meet the Challenges when You’re Subject to Both appeared first on .

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  CFIA Inspections: It’s a New Era for the Food Industry

  Feb 24, 202624 min

  It’s a new world for a lot of sectors in the food industry which had not seen much of CFIA in the past. In this episode of TAG Talks Food Safety, Host Lisa Lupo discusses the CFIA inspection blitz and recent cuts with TAG’s Executive VP, Regulatory Affairs and Managing Director of TAG Canada Cameron Prince. As a former CFIA VP of Operations, he says: If you haven’t been inspected lately — be ready. CFIA inspectors are coming, and they are enforcing the law. The post CFIA Inspections: It’s a New Era for the Food Industry appeared first on .

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  HACCP A Proactive Plan for Brand Protection

  Jan 27, 202616 min

  Developed by the Pillsbury Company in the 1950s for use in NASA’s food program, HACCP – Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points – has since become the foundation for food safety around the globe. In this episode of TAG Talks Food Safety, Host Lisa Lupo welcomes TAG Director of Food Safety Kate McInnes to discuss just what HACCP is, how it has become so critical to the food industry, and why it is important for all food industry personnel to understand its core principles and application to today’s processes. The post HACCP A Proactive Plan for Brand Protection appeared first on .

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