Name: FDA’s Food Safety Culture—Advancing Culture Throughout the Supply Chain
Start: 2023-04-19T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-04:00

Food Safety Magazine's Webinar Series, Evolution of New Era: Advancing Strategies for Smarter Food Safety, features leading voices from FDA, industry, and state and local regulators, and is the most in-depth series looking into FDA's New Era of Smarter Food Safety both inside and outside FDA. The fourth in this webinar series focuses on Core Element 4 of the New Era blueprint, Food Safety Culture. FDA is working to promote food safety culture throughout the food system and FDA's Human Foods program, as well as to develop and promote a smarter food safety consumer education campaign. Learn more about what FDA has been doing through webinars, a review of the scientific literature, staff training, and dialogue with industry to help establish a food safety foundation across the global supply chain.

From this webinar, you will learn:

Why food safety culture is important for the food industry and government
How industry and government agencies are tackling this issue together
Where food safety culture is headed in the future

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Speakers:

Donald Prater, D.V.M., Acting Director of the Office of Food Policy and Response, Food and Drug Administration. Donald Prater, D.V.M., is the Acting Director of the Office of Food Policy and Response (OFPR) at FDA and the Associate Commissioner for Imported Food Safety at FDA. He serves as a member of the OFPR's executive leadership team, providing direction and management to all imported food safety programs. In addition, he serves as a senior scientific advisor and technical expert on matters related to human and animal food safety and the implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) to ensure the safety of the U.S. food supply. Dr. Prater also co-leads a core element of FDA's New Era of Smarter Food Safety focused on fostering and supporting food safety culture across the food system. He holds a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine and a B.S. degree in Biology/Biological Sciences and Zoology from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Conrad Choiniere, Ph.D., Director of the Office of Analytics and Outreach, Center for Food Safety and Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration. Conrad Choiniere, Ph.D., is the Director of the Office of Analytics and Outreach at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN). Dr. Choiniere provides executive leadership for a broad portfolio of scientific and regulatory functions including risk and decision analysis, social and behavioral sciences, epidemiology, biostatistics and informatics, education and outreach, and food defense. Dr. Choiniere currently co-leads a core element of FDA's New Era of Smarter Food Safety focused on fostering and supporting food safety culture across the food system. He also chairs FDA's Toxic Elements Working Group, which prioritizes the Administration's efforts to reduce exposures to lead, arsenic, and other heavy metals from foods to the greatest extent feasible. Dr. Choiniere holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland and a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

Frank Yiannas, Food Safety Culture Expert and former FDA Deputy Commissioner of Food Policy and Response. Frank Yiannas is a food safety culture expert and advocate, having advanced global thinking on the subject with his pivotal 2008 book, Food Safety Culture: Creating a Behavior-Based Food Safety Management System. He is also the former Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response at FDA, having resigned from the agency in February 2023. While at FDA, he was instrumental in creating the New Era for Smarter Food Safety blueprint and many other initiatives related to the implementation of FSMA. Mr. Yiannas has also held leadership roles with Walmart and the Walt Disney Company. He has long been recognized for his role in elevating food safety standards and building food safety management systems based on science and risk.

Megan Kenjora, M.P.A., Senior Manager of Food Safety Culture, The Hershey Company. Megan Kenjora, M.P.A. is the Senior Manager of Food Safety Culture at The Hershey Company, where she leads a diverse global team to embed food safety in the hearts and minds of all Hershey employees. Megan has extensive experience building relationships among diverse groups, getting cross-functional support, and effectively communicating messages across cultures. Megan was an engaged member of the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) Technical Working Group that authored the GFSI position paper, "A Culture of Food Safety," and served as the inaugural chair of the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) Food Safety Culture Professional Development Group. Bringing a passion for food safety culture, she currently serves on the planning committee and numerous working groups as part of the Alliance to Stop Foodborne Illness. Megan is an M.B.A. candidate at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, and she holds an M.P.A. from Penn State University, B.A. degrees in Political Science and Classics from Bucknell University, and a Korean linguist certification from the Defense Language Institute.

Moderator: Adrienne Blume, Editorial Director, Food Safety Magazine

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