Foreign material incidents remain one of the most disruptive and costly risks in meat and poultry processing. While detection technologies serve as critical safeguards, the most effective programs are built on strong preventative foundations.

This webinar, sponsored by FlexXray, will explore the preventive components of the Meat & Poultry Industry Foreign Material Manual, with particular focus on the program maturity model outlined in the guidance. 

The global food industry is approaching a critical inflection point. Increasing supply chain complexity, evolving pathogens, heightened regulatory scrutiny, and rising consumer expectations are reshaping how food safety and quality must be managed. Approaches that delivered confidence in the past are no longer sufficient for the risks ahead. When a presumptive positive occurs today, the speed, accuracy and structure of the response can directly influence product impact, regulatory scrutiny and business risk.

Salmonella continues to be one of the most challenging food safety issues facing the beef industry. In this webinar, Dr. Tatum Katz of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center and Dr. Nikki Shariat of the University of Georgia will share what a deep dive into decades of outbreak data, geographic trends, and modern genomic tools reveals about what’s really driving Salmonella risk today.

RTE manufacturers face the constant challenge of controlling Listeria monocytogenes to produce safes products. This intimate workshop provides a comprehensive understanding of Listeria control, sanitation, sanitary design, environmental monitoring, investigations, corrective actions, and critical information to effectively navigate regulatory issues and standards. Attendees will engage in hands-on exercises, including a critical thinking exercise focused on ‘seek and destroy’ scenarios.

Shiga-toxic E. coli remains one of the most complex and costly challenges in the meat industry. As new serogroups emerge and detection technologies evolve, processors continue to refine their strategies for identifying pathogenic E. coli with greater accuracy, speed, and confidence. This webinar will be your status update on where we are today in rapid testing, and what challenges we are facing in detection and confirmation of Shiga-toxigenic E. coli.

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