Agenda - Day 1

Gain insight into today’s sessions so you can get the most out of your conference experience.

Stay abreast of how CFIA conducts it’s inspections and understand the difference between inspection and enforcement. Take away specific solutions to:

• Prepare for upcoming CFIA inspection processes
• Ensure your facilities are compliant
• Follow best practices according to the inspection agency

Adopting new technologies and developments is essential for improving process efficiency and accuracy in food safety. Source practical tips to: Implement the latest technological, automated, and biopharmaceutical approaches to food safety.

Harness available solutions to optimize your techniques and processes. Overcome innovation challenges, including budget and resource limitations.

Advance your expertise to integrate new techniques and technology across your food safety and QA processes.

Food safety teams are constantly challenged to justify their investments in new technology – from the latest test methods and equipment to the introduction of advanced data analytics and supporting software and required skills. One of the barriers to effectively communicating this justification is the disconnect that often exists between a public safety-minded food safety team, versus the business risk-led decision-making priorities within the head office. Recount real-world examples to illustrate how data management, analytics

and workflow automation technologies are being applied to mitigate many forms of risk, and how to convince executives to buy-in to advancing these capabilities.

Attendees will take away new ideas and concepts that they can use right away:

• Understand how different stakeholders perceive and prioritize risk
• How to tie food safety risk to tangible business and economic outcomes
• How food safety leaders and business decision-makers can collaborate to support the advancement of improved risk management through data analytics

Gain a new perspective on how digitized food safety testing programs provide much-needed data justification for translating value to business outcomes.

Digital transformation is key to moving from reactive food safety measures to proactive, data-driven strategies. This session will explore how digital maturity models can help organizations assess their current capabilities, identify gaps, and develop a roadmap for advancing food safety practices.

• Evaluate where their company stands on the digital maturity scale
• Discover practical steps to leverage technology for stronger compliance, efficiency, and risk management
• Build a framework to drive the next level of food safety, whether you’re just beginning or optimizing existing systems

Delve into our overall strategy around data, technology in the area of food safety and how if fits into our broader business.

• Benefit from examples of things we’ve been testing (both at the restaurant, with suppliers and at a corporate level)
• Share our global training strategy and how we’re using technology to reach our global community and data to ensure we’re focused on right things

Identify key learnings and potential pitfalls

What steps is the food industry taking to protect consumers and ensure a more secure and trustworthy supply system in Canada? Bolster your internal strategies to enhance food fraud detection, strengthen traceability systems, and ensure the safety and authenticity of your products. Take away specific solutions to:

• Deploy authentication methods for ingredients and food products at every stage of production
• Identify methods to recognize food fraud, including enhanced traceability systems, stricter regulatory enforcement, and industry-wide collaboration
• Protect your consumers and brand both nationally and internationally through robust food fraud detection processes

Reduce and prevent food fraud to ensure the safety and authenticity of your products.

Equipment produced from FDA and USDA machine design standards with fast wash down features are advancing the sanitary standards of safe food handling and production.

Food industry specific, sanitary designs with clean-in-place capabilities achieve:

• Consistent, sanitary contact surfaces free of pathogens and allergens to deliver safer food production.
• Reduced contamination related waste.
• Improved ingredient handling and production line yield.
• Fast sanitary wash downs that reduce production sanitation downtime up to 90%.

New guidance is emerging from the recent work undertaken by the Codex Committee on Food Labelling (CCFL) which incorporates risk assessment and the use of allergen thresholds to improve the effectiveness and clarity of precautionary allergen labelling (PAL). The committee’s consideration of recommendations for adopting a risk-based approach, including allergen thresholds, mark a significant step toward a more standardized and consistent approach to PAL, offering benefits for both manufacturers and allergic consumers.

Failure to manage allergens can lead to sever e health risks, product recalls, and damage to brand reputation. Source practical tips to:

• Harness the power of continuous staff training in proper allergen management across production, manufacturing, retail, and food service
• Learn from experts across the food supply chain
• Discuss the importance of traceability and supplier communication in mitigating allergen risks

Perfect your allergen management skills to reduce risk to your consumers.

Review the key solutions and takeaways from today’s sessions. Source a summary of action points to implement in your work. Discuss tomorrow’s highlights!