Bonus Episode: Live from the 2025 Food Safety Summit—Part 2
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To get a taste of the discussions that were happening at the 2025 Food Safety Summit, we spoke face-to-face with Sharon Beals, Founder, SKKB; Peter Taormina, Ph.D., Founder and President, Etna Consulting Group; Sandra Eskin, J.D., CEO, STOP Foodborne Illness; John O'Fallon, Senior Manager Environmental Sensors, Zebra Technologies; Monica Khoury, Senior Quality Expert, Nestlé; and Lily Yasuda, Program Manager, Alliance to Stop Foodborne Illness.
In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak with:
- Sharon Beals and Dr. Peter Taormina [2:24] about the function and limitations of finished product testing
- Sandra Eskin [20:24] about STOP Foodborne Illness' leadership in food safety
- John O'Fallon [37:33] about how to harness environmental sensors for enhanced food safety.
- Monica Khoury and Lily Yasuda [1:04:01] about how simple food safety culture tools can make a big impact
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The presenting sponsor of Food Safety Matters is Zebra Technologies. Zebra's environmental sensors monitor temperature-sensitive products, offering data insights on environmental conditions across industry applications that elevate your supply chain visibility. As part of today's episode, listeners will hear from John O'Fallon, Senior Manager of Environmental Sensors, who will discuss applications for ready-to-use indicators, printable indicators, electronic sensors, and data loggers. To learn more, visit zebra.com. Hello everyone and welcome to Food Safety Matters, the podcast for Food Safety Professionals. I'm Stacey Acheson, publisher of Food Safety Magazine, and I want to thank you for tuning in to part two of our live from the Food Safety Summit coverage. Today, you'll hear interviews my Food Safety Matters co-hosts Adrian Bloom, Food Safety Matters editorial director, and Bob Ferguson, President of Strategic Consulting, conducted in front of live audiences in our beautiful podcast theater in the heart of the Community Hub at the 2025 Food Safety Conference and Expo that concluded last week in Rosemont, Illinois. So I'm imagining that at some point in today's episode, you're going to be thinking, hey, I wish I was there. You know, let's fix that for next year. The summit will once again be held in convenient and affordable Rosemont, Illinois, May 11th through the 14th, 2026. Save the date now. Go ahead, put it on your calendar, put it in your budget, and I'll see you there. All right, now I'm going to step away here and let you hear those interviews with Sharon Beals, founder of SKKB, Peter Tamina, founder and president of Etna Consulting Group, Sandra Eskin, CEO of Stop Food Born Illness, John O'Fowan, senior manager of environmental sensors at Zebra Technologies, Monica Koori, senior quality expert at Nestle, and Lily Yasuda, program manager at the Alliance to Stop Food Born Illness. All right, here we go. So welcome back to the podcast theater live. We appreciate you all sitting in on these interviews. I hope you find them insightful and I'm very pleased to have with me today Sharon Beals, founder of SKKB, and Dr. Peter Tamina, founder and president of Etna Consulting Group. And so thanks to you both for joining us at the podcast today. Appreciate it, Adrian. Thanks for having us, Adrian. So you both spoke on a session yesterday about the function and limitations of finished product testing. So firstly, how should food safety and quality teams properly assess what they want to test for finished product and the reasons for doing so? Well, in my humble opinion, and I said it said this the other day, it starts with your intended product use. How is it going to eventually get to the final consumer? Is it something that's going to be as one of my ex-bosses at IBP? Is it thaw and gnaw? Where literally it comes into a store frozen?
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