In this episode of Food Safety Matters Will Daniels, president of the produce division at IEH, discusses “the human side of food safety as part of public health, reestablishing a relationship with the consumer, reliving the 2006 spinach outbreak, educating and engaging your workforce, engaging senior management in food safety, how to counter complacency in your food safety plan, the ongoing saga of romaine lettuce outbreaks, the role of whole-genome sequencing in outbreak surveillance, why romaine is such a challenging commodity to keep safe, irrigation water standards, moving beyond the regulations to improve food safety even more, what drives food safety programs, keeping food workers safe during the pandemic, and where we go from here”