Confessions of a Food Safety A**Hole
Confessions of a Food Safety AHole is a raw, honest, and surprisingly light listen about a serious subject: the failures that still threaten the safety of the food we eat. Hosted by Dr.
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Beyond Compliance: A Conversation with Rick Biros (opens the original)
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Data matters. Regulations matter. Technology matters. But sometimes the most useful thing you can hear is another person saying, Here’s what we tried. Here’s what went wrong. Here’s what surprised us. And here’s what we learned. In Episode 17, Darin and Gennette sit down with Rick Biros , President of Food Safety Tech and Conference Director of the Food Safety Consortium Conference & Expo, for a conversation about how the industry and the way people learn from one another within it is evolving.
Camping with Darin and Gennette (opens the original)
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This week, we traded the studio for a campsite in Kings Canyon National Park complete with a crackling fire, no Wi-Fi, and a bear that got a little closer to the tent than Gennette would have preferred. Apparently, you can take the Food Safety A**Hole out of the studio, but you can’t take food safety out of the conversation. From bear-proof food lockers and questionable river water to recalls, sprouts, and a potluck where the other guests became food safety a**holes themselves, this episode wand
The Certainty Gap part Deux; plus a special guest (opens the original)
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Though the original plan was to wait until Darin and Gennette returned from IAFP in New Orleans before releasing another episode, the chaotic and fast-moving Cyclospora outbreak made that impossible. As new and conflicting information seemed to emerge by the hour, Darin realized there was an opportunity to take the conversation in a direction beyond the what and how. The episode begins with a candid discussion of the unfolding Cyclospora outbreak and the confusion surrounding recalls, social med
The Certainty Gap (opens the original)
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After an unexpected six-week break, we’re back and we have a lot to catch up on. From road trips through Michigan and TEDx milestones to retirement announcements and cereal box nostalgia, this episode takes a few classic Confessions detours before diving into a much bigger question: What happens in the space between knowing something is wrong and actually doing something about it? Darin breaks down The Certainty Gap the concept behind his TEDx talk: that dangerous delay where leaders search for
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