Event Horizon by Steven E. McDonald5/11/2023 We need to work together,” said Ken Petersen, associate deputy administrator of the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, during today’s breakout on the topic. “At the end of the day, we’re all striving for safety. Their presentations highlighted GFSI’s unique opportunity to serve as a bridge between the public and private sectors such as through the acknowledgment of publically owned and operated standards. Under the theme “ Delivering Safe Food in Turbulent Times: The Need for Agility & Resilience”, the third day further drilled down into creating greater links between stakeholders such as policy makers, academics and food safety leaders from national, regional and international regulatory bodies. Icons can be consensus tools and provide a common language that “give people a greater understanding of why certifications matter, why trust matters.” Keynote speaker Douglas Gayeton, co-founder and chief investigator of The Lexicon, shared his work on Foodicons, an open-source package of icons that help explain key terms and principles that define global food systems. Top food industry leaders, technology experts, and policy makers took to the stage at the 22nd annual GFSI Conference to take a deep dive into breakthrough approaches to build out food safety capability all along the supply chain.
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