Lone Jespersen Shares the Biggest Food Safety Challenge the Industry Faces

Lone Jespersen, Ph.D., founder and principal of Cultivate SA, an organization dedicated to eradicating foodborne illness by working with companies to transform their food safety culture, recently sat down with QA to discuss the lessons learned over the course of her 20-year food safety career, from finding herself on the frontline of a Listeria outbreak at Maple Leaf Foods in 2008 to meeting customers wherever they’re located around the globe on their unique journeys to building a strong food safety culture.

Here, Jespersen shares the biggest challenge the industry faces as it attempts to discourage companies from treating food safety as simply a compliance issue and instead move toward an era where it is considered an enabler of business growth and success.

Read the full interview with Jespersen here.