Enhancing Pet Food Safety from Farm to Fork

Aug 12, 2024 (11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern Time)

Webinar Description

Organized by: Arkansas Association for Food Protection

Join us for an insightful webinar exploring critical aspects of pet food safety, featuring industry experts discussing traceability, interventions for raw pet food, biofilm management, and regulatory impacts. This webinar provides a summary of the pet food safety session from the Arkansas Association for Food Protection 15th Annual Meeting. We will kick off the session with a talk on traceability within the pet food sector (Billie Johnson), followed by talks on interventions for raw pet food (Susy Tejayad) and preventing dry surface biofilms in the pet food processing environment (Michele Sayles). The session will end with a talk on impacts of regulations and customers on pet food safety (Jarrod Kersey), followed by brief Q&A.

Learning Objectives:
1) Understand the complexity of the supply chain and traceability solutions for pet food.
2) Gain insight into processing techniques, such as high-pressure processing, to enhance the safety of raw pet foods.
3) Examine different risks in pet food processing to prevent pathogen harborage.
4) Learn how pet food safety and trends are impacted by regulations and customer expectations.