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

FSU Episode 4- Training

There are 3 statements that make training effective. And I am 99% sure you don't know what they are, or why you need to agree with them. I am also 99% sure that every single corrective action you write has Training...
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FSU Episode 3 - Interview with Leon Witham

Truly, you can't talk about Sanitation too in depth here on FSU. Today I talk with Leon Witham, one of my favorite people in food safety. Leon brings an incredible level of dedication and service to our industry and...
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FSU Ep 2- Personal Protective Equipment and Personal Hygiene

This is the most 2020 thing to talk about. How we dress and how we protect ourselves and the product at work is a learned and learnable skill. You just need to DECIDE to learn it. You need to make the choice that...
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FSU Episode 1

Wait what??! Episode 1? That's right folks...we are having a rebrand. The Smallholder Food Business Development Institute Podcast is now... Food Safety University Let's do it!
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Episode 109- How not to freak out at customer feedback

In food manufacturing you need a Customer Complaint program. It's something you've got to think about and document. I see so many of my clients freak out about them that they routinely get caught short in all the...
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Episode 108- Block and Tackle CAPA

Corrective Actions and Preventive Actions... What are the steps? ย What do you need to think about? Because for your program to be effective...you need to have harder conversations than you are having. You need to dig...
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Episode 107- Authority and Your Business

There is jurisdiction and there's authority. Who has what where in your business and what does it mean for you and your relationship with your regulators?
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Episode 106- The New Normal and Adapting to COVID and Pandemic Disease

In the 6 step framework I introduced in Episode 103 I said it can be used for anything. Well, today we are going to deploy it for how to keep on keepin' on as COVID is our reality for some time. Today's episode will...
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Episode 105 - Interview with CheFarmer Matthew Raiford of Gillard Farms

Matthew is one of my favorite people and I am delighted to speak with him about his journey. He and I have worked together on a number of projects. His wisdom and care and heart centeredness in the agricultural world...
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Episode 104- 90 Day Validations

Do you do what you say you are going to do and is it helpful... I am sorry to say that it isn't enough to just write your HACCP plan. You've got to make sure it works. And you've got to make sure all the SOPs that...
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Episode 103- The 6 Steps to Get You Started on Any Food Safety Plan

There are 6 steps to ANY food safety project whether it is SOPs, or HACCPs or employee training... Learn what they are and how to get them to work in your business.
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Episode 102- Food Fraud Vulnerability Assessments

If you are a company trying to pass an audit...tune in because you need a food fraud vulnerability assessment. And I got a program for that. In today's episode we are going to cover... What is food fraud? What are...
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