It’s almost Q4 — as you look ahead to 2025, what are the improvements you need to plan for in your food safety program to better prevent and recover from foreign material contamination?
Join us for our next virtual roundtable, where we’ll be diving into many of the factors that can make or break your food safety program — and what you need to think about for the year ahead.
Our excellent panel of food safety leaders will cover:
- The steps critical to building a food safety program that can help you prevent and react to foreign material contamination incidents
- What FSQA leaders are reflecting on in 2024 in order to improve 2025 food safety program planning
- How to think about budgeting and internal alignment to make step-change improvement to your food safety protocols
- What product waste reduction might mean to your evolving sustainability efforts
This panel will be live and interactive. If you have questions or want to share your own practices, email info@flexxray.com or submit them via the live chat.
About the Speakers
Brian Perry,
Division President — Select Services
Former Chief Safety Officer – Treehouse Foods
With more than 20 years of experience in food safety and quality, Brian has a history of establishing vital safety and quality practices and conditions as an inherent part of an organization’s core values and culture. He has a specialized knowledge of HACCP and other food safety guidelines, as well as expertise in a range of key food technologies and food types to direct and refine safety and quality, prevent risk and refine operational standards. Brian has previously served as the Vice President of Quality Assurance and Food Safety for Bay Valley Foods, as well as the Director of Quality, Frozen Platform for Conagra Foods.
Danielle Richardson,
Director of Food Safety,
Conagra Brands
Danielle Richardson has been in the food industry for more than 28 years, working for both Dannon and Conagra. She served as Conagra’s foreign material subject matter expert, in which she developed foreign material risk mitigation programs and provided technical support and education to enhance existing foreign material control programs for both internal and external manufacturing plants and suppliers. In her current position as Director of Food Safety, Danielle leads a team responsible for recall management, regulatory relationships and compliance, food safety plans, food safety culture and training, and toxicology. She holds a B.S. degree in Microbiology from Ohio State University.
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.
