Finding the Balance Between Food Safety and Sustainability

1/25/24 11:00 am to 1/25/25 EST

The panel will explore how major brands are bringing together strategic planning processes for food safety and quality (FSQ) and sustainability, with a view to provide insights into the inter-relationships between these two critical areas of business risk for the food industry.

The webinar will pose key questions to our experts including:

What is on your organization's sustainability agenda?
How can sustainability commitments and objectives impact FSQ compliance?
How can you optimize your structure to minimize risk impact and effectively manage critical deliverables?
Where do commonalities and overlap exist in delivering strategic objectives for FSQ and sustainability?
What are the greatest challenges to having a joined-up approach?
Why is internal collaboration critical to risk management and business success?

Speakers:

Kimberly Coffin, Global Technical Director, Supply Chain Assurance, LRQA. Kimberly is passionate about helping global food businesses understand, manage, and mitigate the risks to their products and brands. She has built her reputation as a thought leader in food safety and supply chain risk through more than 30 years of deep-domain food sector expertise, working for and with leading global food companies and associated service organizations across major world markets. Kimberly has extensive experience as a technical professional specializing in design, development, implementation, assessment, and training within the arena of retail agri-food risk management systems, specifically relating to auditing principles and more broadly to the control of food safety, product quality, authenticity, and legality.

Fabian Smith, Global Head of Product Safety, Quality, and Regulatory Compliance, Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain. In his more than 15 years at Cargill, Fabian has worked in various plant and corporate roles in engineering, plant operations, SAP implementation, food safety and quality, supplier quality management, and audit and certification management. More recently, he led the development and execution of a three-year strategy to advance Cargill’s global supplier quality management and its internal audit processes and structure. Before Cargill, Fabian spent 11 years in the electronic communication manufacturing and medical devices industries, where he led the development, implementation, and optimization of several quality management processes.

Genevieve Taft-Vazquez, Sr. Director, Responsible Sourcing and Human Rights Governance, The Coca-Cola Company. Genevieve Taft-Vazquez is Senior Director for Responsible Sourcing and Human Rights Governance at The Coca-Cola Company. Genevieve has been with Coca-Cola for over a decade. In her role, she provides governance, strategy, and policy support for sustainable sourcing due diligence in the supply chain. She works with peer companies to develop collaborative approaches to systemic challenges related to sustainability and responsible sourcing and works closely with external stakeholders to identify partnership opportunities. Prior to joining Coca-Cola, Genevieve worked primarily in the apparel industry. She worked at Gap Inc. and subsequently spent time in Bolivia with a fair-trade artisan organization to improve operational capacity and to develop market opportunities abroad. After that, she joined the Fair Labor Association, a nonprofit that works with multinational apparel brands to improve social and environmental performance in supply chains. She completed a dual degree at Wharton and Johns Hopkins SAIS and her undergraduate studies at Yale University.

Moderator: Adrienne Blume, Editorial Director, Food Safety Magazine

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