In this fourth podcast, Frank Yiannas, Deputy Commissioner of Food Policy and Response, Barbara Cassens, Director of FDA’s Office of Partnerships, and Omari Fennell, ORA Data Exchange Outreach Coordinator, leads a discussion with experts in state government on subjects that include how FDA, state, and local regulators use the ORA Data Exchange to advance public health, including compliance measures and outbreak response, the technology involved in increasing the efficiency of electronic data exchange, how consumers and the food industry benefit, and what’s on the horizon in FDA’s New Era of Sm ..read more

In this third podcast, Frank Yiannas, Deputy FDA Commissioner for Food Policy and Response, and Donald Prater, Associate Commissioner for Imported Food Safety, will lead a discussion with food industry experts on subjects that include the opportunities that AI offers to help protect consumers from food safety issues, potential uses of AI that food producers could consider, and what’s on the horizon for AI in FDA’s New Era of Smarter Food Safety ..read more

In this second podcast, Mark Moorman, director of FDA’s Office of Food Safety, and Eric Brown, director of the Division of Microbiology in the Office of Regulatory Science at FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, will lead a discussion with top experts in food safety and public health on subjects that include the potential of WGS to transform food safety, how the capacity for its use can be increased across all sectors of the food safety stakeholder community, and how more opportunities for its use can be made available to all laboratory communities ..read more

In this first podcast, Andrew Kennedy, MBA, Operations Research Analyst in FDA’s Office of Food Policy and Response, and CDR Kari Irvin, MS, Deputy Director of the Office of Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition — co-leads of the Core Element 1 team — discuss with top technology and food industry experts subjects that include the role they envision new technologies playing in improving traceability, and resources available to companies wanting to learn more about tech-enabled traceability ..read more