More than 1,500 food safety professionals gathered at BNP Media’s 16th Annual Food Safety Summit (FSS) last month in Baltimore, MD to learn about the latest FSMA updates and how they will affect their companies’ businesses. They also heard the latest on food fraud and learned about traceability, prerequisite programs to manage food safety and quality, agricultural water issues, ways of preparing and responding to natural disasters, regulatory affairs and more. On the exhibit floor, where 178 vendors displayed their products and services, attendees found tools for functions such as managing food safety and track-and-trace systems, rapidly analyzing products for contamination and providing sanitation.
Speakers at FSS presented key information about FSMA updates and changes, which emphasize preventing any occurrences that could result in food contamination, rather than “putting out fires” as or after they occur. Sessions included “Enforcing FSMA Requirements Through an Integrated Food Safety System,” “Food Safety Hazards Revisited” and “Food Fraud/Economically Motivated Adulteration.”