Who's Really Responsible for Food Safety? | Inside Food Safety EP.6

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When contaminated produce enters the food supply, finding where it came from is only the beginning.

On this episode of Inside Food Safety, Eric Moore is joined by returning guest Kiley Harper-Larsen to examine recent Cyclospora and Salmonella investigations involving lettuce, jalapeños and the growing list of finished products affected when a single ingredient moves through a complex supply chain.

The conversation goes beyond the recalls themselves.

What food-safety standards apply to produce grown outside the United States? What are importers actually required to verify? How does an investigation move forward when laboratory testing doesn't provide a clear answer? Why can a recall continue expanding long after the original problem is discovered? And how much can a chef or restaurant operator realistically know about where their ingredients came from?

Eric and Kiley break down the realities of foreign supplier verification, FDA oversight, third-party audits, processing, repacking and traceability, while examining where vulnerabilities remain in both domestic and imported food systems.

Because when an ingredient can travel from a farm to a packing house, importer, processor, distributor and eventually a restaurant kitchen, one question becomes increasingly important:

Who is responsible for making sure it's safe?

Inside Food Safety with Eric Moore

Presented by Walk-In Talk Media

Featuring returning guest Kiley Harper-Larsen

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