MilliporeSigma: Uncharted Territory—Food Risks, Rapid Responses, and the Race to Adapt

Sally Powell Price, PG.Dip., M.Sc. joined MilliporeSigma in 2020 as a Regulatory Subject Matter Expert for Public Health focusing on food safety, testing, and environmental monitoring in North America. Previously, she served as Food and Environmental Lab Supervisor at the New York City Department of Health Public Health Laboratory, and as Director of Lab Operations at a Boston-based startup. She holds a bachelor's degree in Biology from Hamilton College and an M.Sc. degree in Microbiology and Immunology from James Cook University (Australia), and completed her professional training at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Sally currently co-chairs both the International Government Relations Committee and the Laboratory Science and Technology Committee for the Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO). She is a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Food Safety Communities of Practice and has served as an Advisory Panel member for several AOAC International working groups.

Justyce Jedlicka, M.B.A. works in North America Commercial Applications for Food, Beverage, and Industrial Regulatory for MilliporeSigma, where she is responsible for engaging with influencers in the food and beverage industry to align initiatives with regulatory compliance and promote best practices for food safety and quality testing methods. Justyce has been serving the food and beverage industry since 2013, and received both a B.S. degree in Chemistry and an M.B.A. degree from the University of Missouri in St. Louis. She previously served as the Chair of the Food Sciences Section of the American Council of Independent Labs (ACIL) and currently serves on the Food Science Section Executive Committee at ACIL and the Board of Directors for the Independent Laboratory Institute. She is a member of IAFP, ISBT, SMA, and AOAC.

In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak with Sally and Justyce [2:51] about:

• Emerging food risks in North America, and how the concept of a "food risk" has evolved over the past decade
• Differences and similarities in how regulators are handling novel versus established food risks
• What a rapid and agile response to a food risk might look like, whether such a response exists in North America, and whether existing regulatory frameworks can become more proactive than reactive
• Manufacturers' challenge of balancing speed-to-market with regulatory compliance in an evolving risk landscape
• The greatest tensions between food innovation and regulatory readiness in the North American market
• Whether contract laboratories and testing laboratories are equipped to keep pace with emerging food risks
• How companies can future-proof their testing and compliance strategies
• The role that scientific partners like MilliporeSigma play in helping regulators and manufacturers become more agile in an evolving food risk landscape.

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