Ep. 121. Tim Stubbs: Uniting the Dairy Industry in Food Safety Goals

Tim Stubbs is Senior Vice President of Food Safety and Product Research at the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy. He leads the Innovation Center's Food Safety Committee, an active group of food safety expert volunteers from processors and academia that shares best practices across companies, produces guidance documents, and conducts training. He also coordinates and funds dairy foods and food safety research projects at universities.

Mr. Stubbs has more than 30 years of food research and development experience in leadership roles at Kraft Foods, Sara Lee, Hillshire Brands, and the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy. He has a broad background in food science and engineering, new product innovation, and food safety across a wide variety of product categories. He also sits on several food industry nonprofit boards and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Food Safety Magazine.

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In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak with Tim Stubbs [21:14] about:

The creation and funding of the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy (IC), a dairy industry collective that addresses pre-competitive issues, such as food safety
How the dairy industry and Dairy Management Incorporated (DMI), the national dairy checkoff program, makes IC's work possible
How the IC unites the dairy industry through committees to tackle common goals and the benefits of being a nonprofit
How IC’s leadership team uses its knowledge and resources to deliver food safety training programs
IC’s initiatives to compile and disseminate important data and knowledge to the dairy industry
Work to address industry issues by developing best practices
IC’s work in education, funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Resources that IC provides to dairy producers, including unique tools for artisan and small-scale dairy processors and workshops for large-scale processors
Microbiological studies and academic collaborations supported by IC’s Listeria Research Consortium
Opportunities for improvement and advances within the dairy industry
The importance of constant diligence in ensuring that food safety basics are properly executed in dairy facilities.