Beyond Compliance: A Conversation with Rick Biros

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. Rick shares why the 15th Food Safety Consortium is making more room for those conversations. We talk about the shift from compliance-driven food safety toward technology, digital transformation, and a question that food safety professionals increasingly need to answer: How do we communicate the value of food safety to the C-suite? And, because this is still Confessions of a Food Safety A**Hole, we eventually get to the inevitable question: What happens when you know enough about food safety that you can’t not notice things? The Food Safety Consortium Conference & Expo takes place October 21–23 in Arlington, Virginia. And yes the best part of the conference is that Gennette is getting on stage this year for the very first time! Register for the conference by going to https://foodsafetyconsortium.org/ Listen to Darin and Gennette talk about Storytelling at the conference on Don't Eat Poop. Sponsored by Eagle Protect, the only glove company that third-party tests its gloves because “trust us” isn’t a food safety strategy. Learn more at www.eagleprotect.com and Safeguard What Matters.