Cargill hosts Food Safety Summit in Toronto

 

During the week of September 25, some 150 employees dedicated to Cargill’s food safety efforts met near Toronto, Canada, at the eighth Annual Cargill Food Safety Summit. The weeklong event provides an opportunity for food safety experts from around the world to leverage knowledge, share innovations and best practices, kick off new projects, and transform ideas into actions that will help Cargill continue its efforts to improve food safety from the farm to the fork. 

“The Food Safety summit is one of the most important and timely meetings we have had so far,” said Mike Robach, vice president, Corporate Food Safety and Regulatory Affairs, who opened and closed the summit. “There has never been as much global activity around food safety as there is today. Our challenge has never been greater—or more critical to the continued success of Cargill.” 

Safe food. Every time, everywhere. 

Cargill defines food safety as protecting people and animals, at every step of the supply chain, from illness or injury from handling or consuming its food products. Earlier this year Cargill adopted enhanced food safety operating principles that guide the company’s actions and drive its food safety goal: to provide high quality, safe food every time, everywhere. 

Accordingly, this year’s Summit theme was, “Safe Food. Every time. Everywhere.” It is also the theme of Cargill’s employee awareness campaign that was introduced at the Food Safety Summit and will be launched across Cargill in mid-October. The goal is to raise awareness among Cargill’s 130,000 global employees about food safety, its importance to the company’s success, and the critical notion that food safety is every Cargill employee’s job.