Continuing the Conversation: Food Safety Exchange Series

The Food Safety Exchange Series is designed to provide ongoing education and insight on the critical issues shaping food safety. Hosted in partnership with leading sponsors, each session offers a deep dive into timely topics— from clean ingredients and sanitation innovations to the latest strategies for preventing and detecting foreign material contamination.

Whether you're attending the conference or are joining us for the first time, this is your opportunity to tap into valuable, free continuing education that helps strengthen your operations, protect consumers, and stay ahead of evolving challenges. 

Register once — get access to all three webinars. You'll receive reminders and access details for every session in the series.

In This Exchange

Food Protection: The Clean Way | Thursday, September 18 | 2:00 PM ET

Today's consumers are increasingly demanding clean-label foods, such as products made with simple, recognizable ingredients and without unnecessary additives. For the meat industry, this shift presents both opportunities and challenges in ensuring food safety, extending shelf-life, and maintaining product quality.

Industry experts will discuss practical approaches to achieving effective food protection through clean-label solutions. This one-hour session will provide an overview of clean label trends and drivers, explore strategies to enhance shelf-life without compromising label transparency and examine key considerations for Listeria control. Attendees will gain insights on how to integrate these strategies to meet regulatory requirements, maintain food safety and deliver products that meet evolving consumer expectations. 

Foreign Material in Food: 2025 Benchmarking Findings & Industry Insights | Wednesday, October 1 | 2:00 PM ET

Foreign material contamination is a persistent and costly challenge for the food industry with impacts on safety, brand reputation and operational efficiency. In this exclusive webinar, FlexXray will unveil results of its 2025 Foreign Material in Food Benchmark Survey, capturing the latest data, trends, and industry insights from food safety and quality leaders across the country. 

Be among the first to access this year's findings and take away actionable insights to strengthen your foreign material control program, protect your brand, and safeguard your bottom line. 

You'll discover: 

  • How the frequency and cost of foreign material incidents have shifted since last year's benchmark.
  • The technologies and detection methods that are gaining--or losing--industry confidence. 
  • Where contamination risks are most common in 2025, from raw ingredients to finished goods.
  • Best practices companies are using now to prevent and respond to incidents more effectively. 

Raising the Bar: Best Practices for Sanitation Excellence | Wednesday, October 15 | 2:00 PM ET

Sanitation is the cornerstone of food safety, and when done right, it not only protects your brand but can also extend product shelf life, optimize water usage and improve operational efficiency. This one-hour webinar brings together industry experts to share proven strategies, tools, and real-world examples for elevating your sanitation program. 

Join Intralox/Commercial Food Sanitation and JBS, as they explore: 

  • Best Practices in Sanitation: From daily and overnight cleaning to master sanitation schedules and specialty equipment care.
  • Sanitation Scorecard: Key metrics, including pre-op deficiencies, dry pick-up, water usage, sanitation time allocation, swab results and downtime tracking.
  • Line Walkthrough Insights: Identifying quick fixes, spotting opportunities during operations and leveraging supplier partnerships to address sanitation challenges.
  • Next-Level Sanitation Technologies: Tools and innovations that help you monitor, measure and continuously improve your program. 

Register once — get access to all three webinars. You'll receive reminders and access details for every session in the series.