Dr. Ruth Petran is a passionate yet practical food safety scientist, and Principal of Ruth Petran Consulting, LLC. Prior to starting her own business, Ruth held technical food safety and public health leadership roles at Ecolab, Pillsbury, and General Mills. She is skilled at tactical application of technical food safety risk management strategies, spanning the global farm to fork supply chain, and has focused on managing safety and quality concerns of microbiologically sensitive foods and systems. She has led food safety assessments at food manufacturing facilities worldwide, focusing on applied HACCP systems and regulatory compliance.
Dr. Petran is President-Elect of the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) and served two terms on the US National Advisory Committee for Microbiological Criteria for Foods. She is a Certified Food Scientist and chaired the Minnesota Food Safety and Defense Task Force.
Her Bachelor’s degree is in Consumer Food Science from Cornell University and she holds an M.Sc. in Food Science and a Ph.D. in Public Health both from the University of Minnesota.
In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak to Ruth [26:00] about:
References from Ruth Petran:
FDA Violations Found FY2020
Penn State's SSOP guide
U Fla Sanitation info
Bob Ferguson, Strategic Consulting, Food Safety Insights [14:46]
Food Safety Testing to Continue to Increase in 2021
News and Resources:
Frank Busta to Receive Food Safety Magazine Distinguished Service Award
FDA Advances Safety of Leafy Greens
FDA’s Warning Shot for Leafy Greens – Micheal Taylor Opinion piece in Food Safety News
U.S. House of Representatives Passes Food Allergen Safety Treatment Education and Research Act
We Want to Hear from You!
Please send us your questions and suggestions to podcast@foodsafetymagazine.com
MilliporeSigma: Salmonella, Salmonella, and more Salmonella
Ep. 85. Tamara Mullin: A Focus on Local
IFC: Strategies for Keeping Pests Out
PerkinElmer: Solus One
Ep. 84. Scott Brooks: Tyson Takes on COVID
bioMerieux: Predictive Diagnostics
Ep. 83. Hugo Gutierrez: Continuous Improvement Requires Openness to Change
Ep. 82. John Spink: The Integrated Supply Chain
Ep. 81. Randy Huffman: Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing
Ep. 80. Bob Gravani: Unconscious Competence in Food Safety
Ep. 79. Hal King: Food Safety Management Systems in Foodservice and Retail
Ep. 78. Jespersen, Tanner, and Coole: Sustaining Food Safety Culture
Ep. 77. FSPCA Panel: Virtual Food Safety Training
IFC: Fogging & Insect Growth Regulators
Ep. 76. Joe Stout: To Seek and Destroy the Listeria Foxhole
Ep. 75. John Keogh and C.J. Unis: Supply Chains After COVID—Part II
Ep. 74. John Keogh and C.J. Unis: Supply Chains After COVID—Part I
Meritech: The Employee Hygiene Toolbox
Ep. 73. Keith Warriner: Applications for the Advanced Oxidation Process
Ep. 72. David Acheson: The Trouble with Defining “Ready-to-Eat"
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Sasquatch Chronicles
Radiolab
The Confessionals
Sasquatch Odyssey
DarkHorse Podcast