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• Session Spotlight: Food Safety and Traceability
• Hello, my name is Earl Arnold, and I'm the global manager for Food Defense and the Food Safety Modernization Act at AIB, and I'm excited to be a presenter at the IBIE conference, talking about food safety and traceability.
• What topic or trend does this session cover, and why is it important?
• In an increasingly globalized and complex food supply chain, ensuring food safety and traceability for all ingredients and products is a critical priority for manufacturers, regulators, and consumers. This presentation will explore the key principles and practices of food safety, to include identifying hazards, establishing needed preventative controls, and other prerequisite programs. We will also delve into the best practices of traceability to include a brief overview of 21 CFR Part 1, subpart S, which is additional traceability records for certain foods, and examine how this regulation and facility programs allow for the tracking and monitoring of food products throughout the supply chain.
• What will attendees learn from this session?
• Personnel attending this presentation will learn the following. The importance of identifying all hazards in a hazard analysis and all the resources that are available to assist doing that. To establish controls for identified significant hazards of all ingredients and products. The prerequisite programs such as approved suppliers, sanitation, and maintenance that are really important. Also an overview of the requirements for 21 CFR Part One, which is the additional traceability records for high-risk foods. And then we're gonna talk about best practices for traceability programs and an overall review for recall plans.