At the Global Food Safety Conference, Frank Yiannas, vice president for food safety for Wal-Mart, told the Conference's 750 delegates that food safety professionals need to break with tradition and be more imaginative and creative in dealing with food safety issues. Yiannas also made a plea for the industry to learn from other disciplines and for the regulators to understand they should design standards but should not be prescriptive about solutions.
Yiannas pointed to several trends in food safety that had come out of the conference, including: Increased surveillance and the use of more technologies in surveillance of foodborne disease outbreaks; The importance of ingredients as a cause of half of the disease outbreaks in the United State in recent years; The significance of social media is giving early warning of foodborne illnesses, and The role that human behavior played in causing and preventing food-linked diseases.
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