Food Safety Matters - Ep. 6. Joe Corby: "It's important to know who the players are"

Duration: 42m
Broadcast on: 25 Jul 2017
Audio Format: other

Joseph Corby worked for the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets for 37 years, ultimately retiring in 2008 as the director of the Division of Food Safety and Inspection. He is currently the executive director of the Association of Food & Drug Officials (AFDO) (http://www.afdo.org/), and he serves on the Board of Directors for the International Food Protection Training Institute (IFPTI) (https://ifpti.org/)and the Partnership for Food Safety Education (http://www.fightbac.org/). He is also an Instructor for IFPTI, Louisiana State University, and the University of Tennessee. He has been an outspoken advocate for the advancement of a nationally integrated food safety system and continues to work with numerous groups and associations in support of this cause.

In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak to Joe Corby about:

The role of AFDO, its history, accomplishments, government relationships, and resources the organization offers to the industry.
AFDO involvement with creating an integrated food safety system in the U.S.
AFDO's Directory of State and Local Officials, an interactive tool the industry can use to find the proper contacts when a problem occurs
Increased focus on manufactured foods now that FSMA is in place
FDA's recent adoption of a more education-based approach to their compliance regulations

Joe Corby's Articles Published in Food Safety Magazine:

Cover Story: Building an Integrated Food Safety System One Brick at a Time (April/May 2017) http://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/magazine-archive1/aprilmay-2017/building-an-integrated-food-safety-system-one-brick-at-a-time/

Cover Story: Integrating the Nation's Food Safety System: What You Need to Know: Past, Present and Future (April/May 2016) http://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/magazine-archive1/aprilmay-2016/integrating-the-natione28099s-food-safety-system-what-you-need-to-knowpast-present-and-future/

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

Donate: Dave Theno Fellowship (under Donation Information, choose the Designation: "Dave Theno Fellowship") https://stopfoodborneillness.thankyou4caring.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=298

AFDO's Directory of State and Local Officials http://dslo.afdo.org/ AFDO's Manufactured Food Regulatory Program Alliance http://www.afdo.org/mfrpa

International Food Protection Training Institute Toolkit Workshop: Introduction to the Integrated Food Safety System http://www.afdo.org/Resources/Documents/4-news-and-events/past-presentations/2013/Presentation-130608-830-Workshop-Corby.pdf

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The presenting sponsor for Food Safety Matters is Safety Chain Software, the leading innovator of real-time food safety and quality management solutions, now offering Safety Chain Analytics, a powerful management tool that transforms food safety and quality records into real-time data intelligence that improves everyday decision-making, operational performance, and the bottom line. Hello everyone and welcome to Food Safety Matters, the podcast for Food Safety Professionals. I'm Stacey Aptison, publisher of Food Safety Magazine and I'm here with Barbara Van Renterham, editorial director of the magazine, and once again our digital editor Tiffany Mayberry's back with us. It was only two episodes but we really missed you Tiffany. I guess it was good practice because for those of you who don't know, well let's see which is probably most of you, Tiffany is pregnant. Well quite pregnant with her first child who just for the record is yet to be named. So we're going to be missing her again in September and October when she's out on maternity leave but we're glad to have you back for now Tiffany. I'm glad to be back and by the way you guys did a great job covering news and trends while I was gone so thank you for that. Well we had to really reach because you set the bar you know. Okay so for today's interview we will hear Barbara's discussion with Joe Corby. Joe is the executive director of the Association of Food and Drug Officials or Afto. Afto is well it's the FDA of the state and local level and we will be responsible for many of the Food Safety Modernization Act or FISMA inspections that take place. They are FDA's booths on the ground and are playing a pivotal role in the implementation of FISMA. Joe is a frequent presenter at Food Safety Conferences and author of several articles in Food Safety magazine and we're very pleased to have him join the podcast today. But to start and since we're just back from attending the International Association of Food Protection or IAFP's annual conference in Tampa we thought we'd give you a little bit of a wrap-up of this year's event. Tiffany why don't you get us started. Sure so this year IAFP attracted just over 3,600 attendees. There are also 185 exhibiting companies 42 of which were exhibiting for the very first time at IAFP and attendees were able to learn at more than 1,100 presentations. This year's IAFP annual meeting also marked the 25th year that David Tharp has been with the organization. He started in the summer of 1993 as IAFP's finance director and he planned to go back to his day job as a certified public accountant but he never left saying that he enjoyed working with so many people who were so passionate about the work they do every day. In 97 he was tasked with growing IAFP's membership while still managing the organization's finances. All in all he managed to turn what was supposed to be a seasonal summer job into quite an impressive 25 year career. Well thanks to the folks at Food Safety News for writing the story that that they put together about David Tharp. Just so nice to acknowledge such a great tenure. David is one of the nicest guys and has just done an outstanding job leading that organization and and and the show the conference just continues to grow year after year so it's it's a great event. The IAFP annual meeting kicked off with the launch of the Dave Thino Fellowship along with the posthumous presentation of the Stop Food Born Illness Food Safety Hero Award. Both acknowledgments were in honor of Dave Thino our very first podcast guest who tragically passed away just over one month ago. Stop Food Born Illness a non-profit group had already planned to honor Dave with this award prior to his untimely death. After the news of his death was confirmed the group decided to rename the annual honor and memory of Dave. Dave's wife along with other family members were present to

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