Frank Yiannas, VP of Food Safety, Walmart
Frank Yiannas, VP of Food Safety, Walmart
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Brands We Trust Use a New Food Safety Playbook

By Rick Biros
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While prevention must always be our primary focus, if significant events do occur, I hope what we’ve done serves as the new playbook and expectation – conduct a proper and thorough root cause investigation to determine with specificity what happened, implement science-based and effective controls, and tell that public what you’ve done to prevent it from ever happening again. – Frank Yiannas

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RFK Jr. as Health Secretary? What the food industry expect.

By Food Safety Tech Staff, Rick Biros
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. battled his way through his second Senate confirmation hearing today but the Senate hearings focused Mr. Kennedy’s views on vaccination and did not touch on his food and agriculture ideas and plans. Kennedy is on record saying the public health establishment is too focused on infectious diseases and wants to redirect resources toward issues he characterizes as the chronic disease epidemic, including obesity, diabetes, autism and mental illnesses. He blames them on corporations including food companies for producing highly processed, non-nutritious food using harmful pesticides and additives.

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