Are You Actually Ready for AI? A Food Safety Reality Check.
Show Resources:
- https://aifs.ucdavis.edu/
- Alexander CS, Smith A and Ivanek R (2023) Safer not to know? Shaping liability law and policy to incentivize adoption of predictive AI technologies in the food system. Front. Artif. Intell. 6:1298604. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2023.1298604
- Alexander CS, Yarborough M and A Smith (2024) Who is responsible for ‘responsible AI’?: Navigating challenges to build trust in AI agriculture and food system technology. Precision Agric. 25: 146-185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11119-023-10063-3
- Loring PA and Sanyal P (2021) Indicators of Complexity and Over-Complexification in Global Food Systems. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 5:683100. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2021.683100
- Microsoft 2026 Work Trend Index Annual Report: https://assets-c4akfrf5b4d3f4b7.z01.azurefd.net/assets/2026/05/2026_Work_Trend_Index_Annual_Report_050526-7_69fc5b1c4e265.pdf
- FDA Warning Letter: https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/purolea-cosmetics-lab-722591-04022026
21 Apr 2026
Hazard, Risk, and the Bobcat Problem
Every food safety professional has faced some version of this moment: a test comes back positive, a pathogen is detected, and the system kicks into gear. Product gets pulled, resources get deployed, decisions get made. And most of the time, that’s the right call. But what happens when the system responds with equal urgency to a result that poses minimal actual risk to public health? What’s the cost of that response, not just in dollars but in wasted food, wasted energy, and resources diverted from threats that matter more? And who gets to decide what “safe enough” actually means? In this new series of external-expert TAG Talks from The Acheson Group, TAG COO & EVP of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs Dr. Ben Miller welcomes Dr. Martin Wiedmann, lead author of “Balancing Food Safety and Sustainability: Trade-off Risk Assessments and Predictive Modeling,” to answer such questions, discuss why the food safety field needs to get more rigorous about weighing the unintended consequences of its own interventions, and propose new tools, including AI-assisted risk negotiation, to help with that.
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25 Mar 2026
USDA/FDA: How to Meet the Challenges when You’re Subject to Both
Whether you’re challenged by a USDA inspector, dealing with a quality sensory issue, or trying to meet both USDA and FDA requirements, TAG’s newest Director of Food Safety Nikkie Vazquez has solutions for you. In this episode of TAG Talks Food Safety, Host Lisa Lupo and Nikkie discuss these topics, and more, to help single- and dual-jurisdiction facilities keep your products compliant and safe.
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