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Food safety culture and supply chain visibility drive proactive food quality assurance on Food Tech Talk: Supply Chain Insights from Farm to Fork with host Katy Jones (CEO of Trustwell) and guest Campbell Mitchell of OSI Group! Discover how OSI Group quality mgmt uses Trustwell FoodLogiQ, predictive analytics, safety, manufacturing risk systems, HACCP compliance, early signal detection, and frontline operational discipline to fix breakdowns in crisis escalation protocols. Learn how AI in food safety, traceability software, supplier risk management, foreign material detection, preventive action protocols, GFSI audit standard metrics, food safety leadership, quality management systems, and cross-functional operations prevent costly supply chain failures.

Misplaced creamer carafes and uncommunicated recipe edits expose event venues to severe allergen risk and unexpected operational liability. In this episode of Food Tech Talk: Supply Chain Insights from Farm to Fork, host Katy Jones (CEO of Trustwell) speaks with Tracy Stuckrath, Founder of thrive! meetings & events, to analyze how event catering teams can transform hospitality through smart food tech, digital ingredient data, and verified menu labels. From managing the top 9 allergens and non-alcoholic options to enforcing recipe control across kitchen operations and last-mile logistics, discover how automated risk mitigation, cross-contamination prevention, and proactive event planning safeguard guest safety and eliminate food allergy vulnerabilities across the entire supply chain.

Precision agriculture AI and autonomous field drones are completely reshaping fresh produce supply chain consistency. On this episode of Food Tech Talk: Supply Chain Insights from Farm to Fork, host Katy Jones, CEO of Trustwell, speaks with Jim Trahanas, CTO at Fruitist, about how computer vision produce quality tracking and predictive analytics drive yield prediction modeling and eliminate harvest uncertainty.

Master restaurant scalability and reduce food safety risk in this episode of Food Tech Talk: Supply Chain Insights from Farm to Fork. Host Katy Jones, CEO of Trustwell, sits down with Christin Marvin, founder and CEO of Columbine Hospitality, to explore how multi-unit operations build essential people, process, and financial systems to scale sustainably without sacrificing operational consistency or customer trust.

Fix food and beverage cash flow and stop margin leaks! On Food Tech Talk: Supply Chain Insights from Farm to Fork, host Katy Jones, CEO of Trustwell, sits down with Scotty Palmer, founder of Palmer’s Strategic Advisors, to analyze co-packer risk management, SKU margin profitability, food safety compliance, working capital optimization, supplier contract negotiation, co-manufacturer diversification, and the Shelf to Savings system for growth tax mitigation.

In this special compilation episode of Food Tech Talk: Supply Chain Insights from Farm to Fork, host Katy Jones brings together highlights from conversations with Michael Robins, Charlie Chappell, and Zoe Richards. Discover how leading food brands balance food reformulation, regulatory compliance, and crave appeal while improving product data management, food safety systems, and supply chain transparency. Learn how R&D innovation, nutrition analysis, compliant labeling, and traceability solutions help build lasting consumer trust.

Can empathy transform food safety compliance? Host Katy Jones (CEO of Trustwell) sits down with Lilia Rivera on Food Tech Talk: Supply Chain Insights from Farm to Fork to discuss the power of the empathetic audit and how digital tools like FoodLogiQ drive continuous improvement. Learn how integrating human compassion with real-time automated traceability can eliminate the traditional anxiety of quality auditing while driving total regulatory compliance across your entire enterprise footprint.

Streamline your digital food innovation and mitigate product failure using predictive market intel. In this episode of Food Tech Talk: Supply Chain Insights from Farm to Fork, host Katy Jones (CEO of Trustwell) sits down with Gautam Kanumuru, co-founder and CEO of Yogi, to explore how unstructured shopper feedback and natural language processing generate actionable business intelligence. By moving past baseline POS tracking to capture comprehensive product listing optimization and multichannel feedback aggregation, modern enterprise systems minimize reformulation risk management and protect market share. Learn how unified consumer data, multitask data tagging, consumer sentiment analysis, and e-commerce data transparency maximize your software engineering ROI. This deep dive explores brand loyalty preservation, agentic shopping commerce, enterprise data connectivity, sku level insights, the Pareto principle software framework, and the hidden realities of software maintenance metrics to establish end-to-end supply chain visibility.

Discover how AI in food tech is revolutionizing back-of-house operations on this episode of Food Tech Talk: Supply Chain Insights from Farm to Fork. Join host Katy Jones, CEO of Trustwell, and Fengmin Gong, CEO of MetafoodX, as they discuss food waste reduction, the breakdown of traditional point of sale systems, and how true supply chain transparency fuels long-term operational efficiency.

Listen to Food Tech Talk: Supply Chain Insights from Farm to Fork as Katy Jones, CEO of Trustwell, sits down with Susan Bond of Bond Advisory Group to reveal why a proactive regulatory strategy is the key to faster food innovation. In this episode, they discuss how moving beyond "checkpoint" thinking to true regulatory readiness ensures FDA compliance while driving market commercialization success. Trustwell reConnect On-Demand is here! 🖥️ If you work in the food industry, you know that staying ahead of regulations is a constant battle. That’s where Trustwell reCONNECT On-Demand comes in. We recently hosted our annual virtual summit, bringing together hundreds of industry experts to discuss the future of food safety, traceability, and compliance. Now, you can access the entire library of sessions, featuring actionable insights from brands like Taco John's and Wawa, focusing on everything from FSMA 204 compliance to quality management and supply chain resilience. Don't miss out on the strategies you need to lead your team. Access the complete reCONNECT On-Demand library for free by visiting: https://www.trustwell.com/reconnect/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=show-notes&utm_campaign=transparency-talk-with-trustwell-ep54