Jim Tonjes, former vice president of engineering for General Mills, recalls when he was asked to head the food safety program for that company just as FSMA was kicking into high gear.
“We had all the quality [assurance] people from the whole corporation in every single factory go through and come up with a list of what they thought could be a potential problem in their factory,” he recalled during a speech at Food Engineering’s 2017 Food Automation and Manufacturing Conference. “Well, that being said, it came back that the list was 10 miles long.”