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Home » Authors » Sophie Tongyu Wu Ph.D.

Sophie Tongyu Wu Ph.D.

Sophie Tongyu Wu is a Senior Research Assistant at University of Central Lancashire and a member of Cultivate SA. She leads a food safety culture improvement project at ten UK food manufacturing companies to collect organization-wide feedback for targeted action. Dr. Wu holds a Ph.D. in food science and technology from Purdue University and a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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Using Frontline Feedback to Nudge Food Safety Culture Improvements

The objective for an organization wanting to improve its food safety culture is to find ways to nudge and make incremental improvements
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Lone Jespersen Ph.D.
Sophie Tongyu Wu Ph.D. Carol Wallace Ph.D. Nimisha Raja Luci Russell
April 10, 2023

To improve the food safety culture of an organization, it is critical that a key focus be the frontline employees. A proven tool to improve frontline employee engagement in effective food safety behaviors is the concept of "nudging"—a regular cadence of small, easily controlled, and easily taken actions to make a change process more effective, manageable, and sustainable. This article will showcase real-life examples of nudging and share successful examples.


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Global Food Safety Culture: Latin America

Latin America leans toward indirect, high-context communication and relationship-based culture
Lone Jespersen
Lone Jespersen Ph.D.
John David Sophie Tongyu Wu Ph.D.
October 11, 2022

Panelists Michele Fontanot (Professional Service Manager, 3M Latin America), Paola Lopez (QA Manager, Sigma), and Lone Jespersen, Ph.D. (Cultivate, Switzerland), identified three prominent features around food safety culture in Latin America region: a culture of caring, empowerment, and authentic food safety culture being a competitive advantage. 


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Global Food Safety Culture: North America

North America's food safety culture is characterized by diversity of thought; a proactive, risk-based approach; and high adaptability
Lone Jespersen
Lone Jespersen Ph.D.
John David Sophie Tongyu Wu Ph.D.
August 15, 2022

Panelists Christian Blyth (Pathogen Specialist, 3M Canada), Marie Tanner (Senior Vice President of Quality, Dairy Farmers of America), and Lone Jespersen, Ph.D. (Cultivate SA) discuss three features that are prominent in North America's food safety culture: diversity of thought, proactive risk-based approach, and high adaptability. 


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Global Food Safety Culture: Asia

Food safety culture in Asia spans culturally diverse regions, but three broad types of leadership are identified in two types of companies
Lone Jespersen
Lone Jespersen Ph.D.
John David Sophie Tongyu Wu Ph.D.
June 10, 2022

The authors and collaborating food safety experts highlight several unique features of Asian culture that interplay with food safety management: evolving leadership toward modern styles, emerging risk awareness, and an immense hunger for learning


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Regional Culture: Australia

Australia takes a uniquely collaborative approach to several aspects of food safety culture
Lone Jespersen
Lone Jespersen Ph.D.
John David Sophie Tongyu Wu Ph.D.
April 21, 2022

The authors and collaborating food safety experts have delineated several unique features in Australia around food safety and quality: intimate collaborations across sectors and functions, "walk the talk," and skills and capacity building.


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Global Food Safety Culture: Europe

Four predominant features around food safety culture have been identified in European cultures
Lone Jespersen
Lone Jespersen Ph.D.
John David Sophie Tongyu Wu Ph.D.
February 16, 2022

The authors and collaborating food safety experts have identified four predominant features around food safety culture in European cultures. These features include mixed attitudes toward the adoption of new ideas as food safety management changes, active engagement in food safety and quality, consensual decision-making, and a prevailing dependence on internal drive (as opposed to regulatory dictation) in fostering food safety culture.


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Introduction to Global Food Safety Culture

Unique regional cultures have influence on food safety, as will be explored in this article series.
Lone Jespersen
Lone Jespersen Ph.D.
John David Sophie Tongyu Wu Ph.D.
December 21, 2021

This Regional Culture article series will examine the differences and features that prevail and render each global region unique with regard to food safety culture. Ultimately, the goal is to foster understanding and enable better communicate and management of food safety culture.  


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