FSMA Fridays: Listeria - The Conversation Continues (Part One Of Four)

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In the previous installment of FSMA Fridays, The Acheson Group (TAG) and SafetyChain Software panel addressed the FDA’s Listeria Guidance and issues within it. The conversation was popular enough to garner a second conversation. Here, SafetyChain Software’s VP of Marketing, Jill Bender is joined by TAG’s VP of Scientific Affairs Dr. Peyman Fatemi and TAG’s Senior Director of Food Safety Randy Porter to discuss listeria control under the FDA.

Jill: Welcome to FSMA Fridays. My name is Jill Bender, VP of Marketing, with SafetyChain software. For March, we are continuing the discussion on Listeria. There was quite a bit of information that was shared in our last session, the guidance documents had just come out and there were a lot of questions and nuances to address. Today, we have TAG here to continue to do just that. Today we are delighted to have Dr. Peyman Fatemi with us. As always, welcome, Peyman.

Peyman: Good morning Jill, good to be with you again.

Jill: We are also delighted to have and initiate Randy Porter into the FSMA Fridays' club. Randy has been with TAG for about a year and a half and brings 30 years of experience in food safety. I was quite impressed with your bio. I see you've worked with Nabisco, ConAgra, and Campbell’s to name a few. But welcome to FSMA Fridays, delighted you could join us.

Randy: Thank you Jill, I'm looking forward to my first time in FSMA Fridays and hello to everybody that's out there listening in.

Jill: Excellent. We'll try to go easy on you, Randy. Let's go ahead and get started. So share with us, Peyman, tell us what's new on the FSMA front.