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In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we are joined by Sherry Brice, M.B.A., Chief Supply Chain Officer at W.K. Kellogg Co. She discusses her experiences as a food safety and supply chain business leader, and shares practical strategies and considerations for other professionals in driving business value by balancing food safety priorities, supply chain requirements, and working with diverse teams.

This article takes a look at how whole-being competencies support technical leaders to shift culture through daily interactions and behaviors. As we head into 2024, it is time to move from checking boxes to doing the work of creating and implementing a solid food safety culture improvement plan. Organizations are taking this opportunity to map out how to improve food safety culture in the next year—and, hopefully, over the next several years, as culture shifts are known to take several years to see the impact. 

Edited by renowned food safety business leader and public health specialist Hal King, Ph.D., this digital book features perspectives from top food safety business leaders at best-in-class retail foodservice operations.

How would work be different if, instead of focusing on the challenges of working in silos, we built stronger leaders to effectively navigate crowd-sourcing opportunities?

Risk culture is a construct in which the organization's values, beliefs, and behaviors influence actions relative to how it responds to risks. By reducing complexity across the organization's functions and processes, the different types of risk can be assessed and managed by a single, powerful approach so that the risk culture is more mature.

Strong food safety cultures are often associated with maturity, but they are not developed overnight. Three steps can help develop food safety culture maturity at any organizational level and company size.

You won the role of the Food Safety and Quality leader, and now you're responsible for creating a feature film starring food safety culture. It can be overwhelming to pull everyone together to play their parts. With these tips, you'll have a blockbuster feature film in no time!

More than a year after the start of the coronavirus pandemic forever changed our way of life and further strained our food system, we face greater challenges as a result of new vulnerabilities that have arisen.