In a food production setting, it’s not a question of if foreign material will make its way into product, but when. Having a defined process for how to detect, respond to and resolve foreign material incidents is critical to salvaging as much of your affected product as possible while still maintaining rigorous food safety standards.
Join FlexXray for a special roundtable discussion where we’ll be diving into best practices from industry leaders on how they approach foreign material incidents, including:
- The different ways to determine foreign material incidents have occurred
- The right way to respond when an issue has been found
- How to evaluate the different recovery options
Panelists
Kurt Westmoreland,
Chief Commercial Officer,
FlexXray
Kurt Westmoreland is the Chief Commercial Officer for FlexXray and has more than 35 years of experience in food safety. His early career focused on analytical testing with Silliker and evolved into being a trusted and well-respected sales and commercial operations executive with Mérieux NutriSciences for 28+ years, helping the company expand to a fully integrated food safety provider. Throughout his career, Kurt has been an active member of several industry associations, including but not limited to IFT, IAFP, AFFI, IPPE, BIFSCO, NAMI and several others.
Jeremiah Johnson,
Assistant Director of Food Safety,
Hormel Foods
Jeremiah Johnson is the Assistant Director of Food Safety at Hormel Foods, where he is responsible for implementing and training sanitation, regulatory compliance and food safety expectations in both USDA and FDA-regulated facilities. He is also a Preventive Control lead instructor for both human and animal food. Jeremiah has worked at Hormel for 19 years and previous roles have included management of QA departments at a dry sausage production facility in Iowa and a pork slaughter and further processing facility in California. He has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Iowa State University.
Matthew Thomas,
Senior Director FSQA,
Tyson Foods
Matt Thomas currently serves as Sr. Director, FSQA at Tyson Foods, overseeing their Food Service and Retail Value Added Poultry division. Matt has spent nearly 20 years at Tyson and holds an MS in Food Safety from the University of Arkansas.
Bryan Armentrout,
President of The Food Leadership Group,
Consultant, and
Host of Food Safety Chat Live
Bryan Armentrout served as Vice President of Quality Assurance for a major US CPG company and now serves as President of The Food Leadership Group consultancy. He has more than 20 years of experience serving corporate clients in the food manufacturing, quality systems, auditing and training sectors.
