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 101- Doing it All, All at Once

Ready for the next 100 episodes? Because I am.  Let's set the stage though... Goals. You've got 'em. You love setting them, they feel awesome. Are you using them to beat the stuffing out of yourself? Probably.  Which...
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Episode 100- Running a Family Business with Andrew

It's been 8 1/2 years on our business journey It's been 14 1/2 years on our marriage journey What works? What doesn't work? What are we going to do differently? Tune in and find out.
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Episode 99 - Interview with ASI

Are you ready for a 3rd party audit? Well, if you've ever wondered what you need to do to prep, this is the episode for you. Join me as I interview 2 auditors from ASI on what goes into an audit and what you can do to...
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Episode 98- Testing and Environmental Monitoring a year on

When I last covered testing and environmental monitoring we talked a lot about the how of what you do... Today we talk about the why... Doing product testing and environmental monitoring well gives a lot of insight...
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Ep 97- Preventive Maintenance for Fun and Profit.

How much time do you spend in preventive maintenance...and how much in urgent and emergency maintenance... Next question...how awful does all that emergency maintenance feel. Awful, right? What if you instituted PM...
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Episode 96- The Language of Food Safety

I say HACCP, you say HACCP...and we mean different things... Say wha?! Crazy, I know. But join me for this podcast and learn about the vocabulary! Let's clear all that up so that you can get your plans written!
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Episode 95- How to be a product of your product

You food changes lives. How do I know this? Because it's changed mine. Yours, my clients, the whole smallholder food movement...it changes lives. And changing lives is tough work and requires a lot of you. And when...
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Episode 94- Interview with Tracy Hoth

What's the mindset around being organized? That's the real question. Anyone can 5S their facility once...but it takes a lot more brain work to keep your facility and stuff under control.
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Episode 93- Attachment versus Commitment

We talk a lot about goal setting around here and it is easy to go down the rabbit hole of attachment to goals. Commitment though, is much more powerful. Both can be useful, but commitment will get you everywhere,...
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Episode 92- You and your business

Let's diving into your relationship with yourself...what are the things you build your life on? Are they what you want to bring forward into your future?​ The foundations of freedom and opportunity are pretty...
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Episode 91 - Interview with Matt Kuchera of Vet Pivot

Vets- listen up! This vet is talking to another awesome vet this week. Matt runs Vet Pivot, works in finance and is the walking definition of amazing.  We cover lots of awesome stuff for non vets in this one as well,...
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Episode 90- Interview with John Stoj

Talking finance and small business today on the podcast. We've got a fun interview with John Stoj out of Sandy Springs, GA. He's a whiz at all things finance for small business. Finance and the world we live in today...
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