Food Safety University

Food Safety University

Hosted by: Michele Pfannenstiel DVM

Welcome to Food Safety University, the only place on the Internet that talks about how to use food safety to help your food manufacturing business thrive. We talk about plant management, money and profit, employees...

Episodes

Episode 28- Interview with Professor Robert Paarlberg about "Resetting the Table"

One of the most awesome things about my life is that I am a graduate of Wellesley College. Being in the "W Network" as we call it brings certain advantages. Not only can I find alums almost anywhere in the world doing...
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Episode 27 - The New Plant Manager Pt. 4, What is a Gap Audit?

In this week's episode of the New Plant Manager series, we address all of your recent questions by taking a deeper dive into what exactly a gap audit is! In this episode, you'll learn about: Gap Audits and why need...
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FSU Episode 26- Make Money as a Food Producer #3

What is the next step in breaking through to make money as a food producer? Thru questions Important ones (because yes, there are dumb questions...the ones you don't want answered with the truth) Questions empower On...
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Episode 25 - The New Plant Manager Pt. 3, The Operations Gap Audit

In part 3 of our New Plant Manager series, we'll continue on our internal gap audit. This week, we'll be taking a look at the first portion of our Operations Structure, the Facilities Programming.  We'll take this...
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FSU Episode 24- Interview with Jennell Carter and Alicia Menard of Casco Bay Creamery

If you are thinking about opening a business, going into co-packing or thinking about what it is like to work with me...I want to introduce you to some of the best women in the food space on the planet. Go deep with...
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Episode 23 - The New Plant Manager Pt. 2, The Organizational Audit

Have you ever walked into a new management job and wondered, 'Where the heck to I start?' If so, this episode is for you. In this week's installment of The New Plant Manager series, David discusses the first part of...
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FSU EPisode 22- Make Money as a Food Producer Part 2

In this week's episode of the podcast we are going to take making money as a food producer even further than the beliefs we talked about last week. Beliefs are first. Next we've got to talk about dreaming big...how...
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Episode 21 - The New Plant Manager Series Introduction

This episode of The Food Safety University Podcast is the first of a new weekly segment called' The New Plant Manager' with David Zarling. David is a Senior Associate at Dirigo Food Safety with a background in...
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FSU Episode 20- Interview with Dirigo Food Safety Sr. Associate David Zarling

Great news all, this is another peak behind the scenes look at Dirigo Food Safety and what we are doing, where we are going and how we are run. David Zarling, plant manager, butcher and leadership coach extraordinaire...
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FSU Episode 19- Make Money as a Food Producer Part 1

Why are you making food? Why on earth are you putting all this effort into your business? In part 1 of our series I am going to tackle this issue head on with you. These episodes are going to make your THINK. And then...
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FSU Episode 18- Food safety planning is a gift to your future self

You know who LOVES a well executed food safety plan? Your future self. The one who can deal with any problem thrown at them because they've got a great foundation. But how do you even develop a relationship with that...
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FSU Episode 17- Building your business by focusing on the future

Are you arguing with reality and spending your time re-litigating the past? Many clients do this frequently. It makes total sense because...that's how you were taught to think. But what if you could stop doing that....
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