Building a Stronger Food Safety Program in a Changing GFSI Landscape
2026-06-04 11:00 - 11:30 (America/Detroit)
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As GFSI requirements continue to evolve, quality leaders are being asked to do more than maintain compliance. They are expected to strengthen programs, reduce risk, and support operational performance across the business. In this webinar, FoodChain ID will provide perspective on the evolution of GFSI requirements and what those changes have meant for food and beverage manufacturers.
Our expert speakers will share practical lessons from building and sustaining a strong quality program in a real-world facility environment. Together, they will explore how quality managers can align systems, culture, and execution to meet rising expectations while creating lasting value for their organizations.
Key Takeaways:

Understand how GFSI requirements are evolving and what those changes signal for quality programs at food and beverage facilities
Learn how strong quality programs connect systems, culture, and day-to-day execution rather than relying on documentation alone
Hear practical insights from an industry quality leader on what it takes to sustain consistency, accountability, and audit readiness
Leave with ideas for strengthening your program in ways that support compliance, operational confidence, and long-term business value

EPR Virtual Connect
2026-06-09
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Following the success of ACI’s EPR Think Tank conference, this one-day virtual event continues the conversation with timely insights and practical guidance on navigating the evolving landscape of U.S. packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws.
As more states, including California, Colorado, Oregon, Minnesota, Maryland, and Washington, move forward with EPR frameworks, producers are facing growing compliance obligations and operational challenges. Building on the discussions from January’s Think Tank, this program will explore emerging implementation questions, early compliance experiences, and the next wave of regulatory developments, helping companies turn evolving requirements into practical strategies.

Feeding the future with fibre
2026-06-10 10:00 - 11:00
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This session dives into the fibre renaissance, spotlighting novel sources, prebiotic innovations and formulation strategies that make fibre-rich products more appealing and effective.

A Practical Guide to Spoilage Investigation and Prevention
2026-06-10 11:00 - 12:00
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Routine testing can flag spoilage, but it often doesn’t explain root cause—or how to prevent recurrence. In this educational webinar, Justin Cabrita and Dr. Martin Wiedmann share a practical, investigation-driven approach to spoilage prevention using SMARTBIOME™ from bioMérieux—an innovative solution that combines high precision DNA analysis, advanced bioinformatics, data science, an exclusive spoilers knowledge base, and expert consulting.
You’ll learn how strategic sampling across raw materials, in process environments, and finished products can uncover hidden microbiological risks, identify likely sources of spoilage, guide targeted corrective actions, and help verify the effectiveness of interventions. By translating complex microbiome data into actionable insights, this approach helps reduce non-quality costs, minimize scrap, and strengthen confidence in product quality—while protecting your brand.
Key takeaways:

How to progress from detection to root cause understanding and prevention
How metagenomics can help identify potential sources of spoilage risk in raw materials, in-process, and finished products
How microbiome insights can inform corrective and preventive strategies, illustrated through real-world use cases

This session will focus on concepts, examples, and ways of thinking, rather than prescriptive testing or corrective action plans, which are highly site-specific.

Dust, Damage, and Downtime: Designing Bulk Solids Systems That Protect Product and People
2026-06-10 14:00 - 15:00
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Bulk solids systems can introduce more than just flow challenges. Inadequate design inputs and poor equipment selection often lead to dust exposure, product degradation, segregation, reliability issues, and increased safety risk—impacting both plant performance and product quality.
This session provides a practical framework for evaluating system design through the lens of material properties, airflow, transfer point design, and equipment selection. Attendees will learn how these factors interact to influence product integrity, system reliability, and overall operational efficiency. The discussion will highlight common design oversights that contribute to dust generation, over-processing, and downtime, along with strategies to address them early in the design or retrofit process.
By focusing on real-world applications, this webinar equips engineers and operations professionals with the tools to design bulk solids systems that are safer, cleaner, and more dependable from the start.
Key Takeaways:

Identify common causes of dust, product degradation, and downtime in bulk solids handling systems
Understand how material properties and airflow influence system performance and product integrity
Evaluate transfer point and equipment design to reduce segregation, damage, and maintenance issues
Apply practical design strategies to improve safety, reliability, and overall system efficiency

Sustainable Food Contact Materials: Where Regulation Meets Analytical Testing
2026-06-16 11:00 - 11:30
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This webinar will examine the shift toward more sustainable food contact materials and the need to comply with evolving EU regulations. Following an overview of food contact legislation, the session will address recent sustainability-driven regulations, including the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), and the analytical testing required to support compliance. The discussion will focus on non-intentionally added substances (NIAS) and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
From this webinar, attendees will learn:

How sustainability is shaping food contact material requirements
Key elements of the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation
Risks associated with non-intentionally added substances
Considerations for PFAS substances in food contact materials

Living HACCP: Practical Steps for Implementation
2026-06-17 12:00 - 13:00
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Most food companies treat HACCP as an FSQA requirement. The binder on the shelf. The audit pass. The absence of non-conformances. Yet none of these tell us how food safety risks are really managed day-to-day when no one is watching, or how people across functions understand their role in protecting the consumer.
In this webinar, internationally recognized FSQA and food safety culture experts explore what HACCP can become when it shifts from a compliance-led activity to a risk-led, people-focused system. Drawing on stories from real-life frontline experiences, presenters will show how social norms shape the way hazards are understood, how decisions are made, and how well risks are understood and acted on across companies.
Participants will learn how organizational design, cross-functional involvement, and a strong focus on the frontline can move a business along this continuum. The discussion will show how HR, operations, engineering, and FSQA each shape HACCP maturity. It will also explain why the FSQA team’s ownership of HACCP without it being lived within the plant can limit the organization’s progress.
From this webinar, attendees will:

Understand how social norms shape the way hazards are understood, how decisions are made, and how well risks are understood and acted on across companies
Learn how organizational design, cross-functional involvement, and a strong focus on the frontline help transform HACCP from a compliance-led activity to a risk-led, people-focused system
Get more from their HACCP efforts by building a system that people live every day—one that makes risk visible and strengthens operational performance

A Fresh Look at ADPI Academic Member Research
2026-06-17 14:00 - 15:00
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Join us for a new ADPI webinar series designed to showcase the exciting dairy research taking place at ADPI member universities.
In this session, Dr. Owen McDougal of Boise State University and Dr. David Dallas of Oregon State University will share a broad range of innovative dairy research with real-world applications for the industry.
Discover emerging insights, technologies, and product development opportunities that could help spark your next innovation or technological advancement. Whether you are focused on product development, ingredient applications, processing technologies, or academic collaboration, this webinar offers a fresh perspective on the future of dairy research.

Formula to facts: How structured data makes AI reliable in formulated goods
2026-06-18 00:00 - 01:00
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AI can accelerate product development and commercialisation—when it’s grounded in structured, standardised product data. Learn how GS1 global data standards and 2D barcodes establish AI-ready information flows, and how Centric’s AI-driven PLM helps formulated goods organisations move faster, stay compliant, and improve profitability.
What you’ll take away

A leadership perspective on AI readiness: why data quality, structure, and standards determine outcomes
How 2D barcodes can unlock customer-facing content (product stories, ingredients/allergens, promotional information)
How AI-powered PLM can streamline cross-functional execution—reducing rework and accelerating time-to-market
Real-world examples and case studies relevant to formulated goods categories

Who should attend
This session is designed for GS1 Members, and brands/manufacturers in:

Food & Beverage
Dairy
Cosmetics and Personal Care
Retail

VITAL 4.0 in Practice: How two manufacturers applied allergen risk assessment - and what they learned along the way
2026-06-18 09:00 - 09:45
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Thursday, 18 June 2026

Session 1: 9:00 AM CEST (Berlin) / 3:00 PM SGT (Singapore)
Session 2: 9:00 AM ET (New York) / 3:00 PM CEST (Berlin)

Language: English
Live captions available in German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian and Greek

What VITAL 4.0 implementation actually looks like
The VITAL 4.0 framework is well documented. What is harder to find is an account of what it looks like inside an actual facility – with real recipe complexity, real data collection demands, and real decisions about portion size, cleaning validation, and testing method selection.
This webinar provides exactly that. Cristina Romero, Senior Product Manager for Food Allergens at Romer Labs, presents two real VITAL 4.0 implementations: Altes Gewürzamt – a premium German spice manufacturer with 100+ recipes and six controlled allergens – and a global FMCG manufacturer managing allergen risk across a diverse food and nutrition portfolio. Both cases are presented with operational detail, and key learnings.
What you’ll take away

Where VITAL 4.0 implementation proved more demanding than expected – and what each team did about it
Why data collection consistently requires more effort than the calculation itself
How portion-size assumptions can change a PAL decision – and why this variable deserves more scrutiny
Where testing supports cleaning validation, product verification, and ongoing monitoring
What to consider before starting your own VITAL implementation

Who should attend

QA and QC managers in food manufacturing, food ingredients, and food service supply
Food safety and regulatory professionals navigating PAL decisions and VITAL adoption
Laboratory managers responsible for allergen testing method selection and validation
Production managers involved in allergen management programme design
Technical decision-makers in procurement and retail specifying allergen management requirements

Food & Beverage Packaging Live Session: How Cost Volatility Is Reshaping Your Material Strategy
2026-06-18 11:00 - 11:45
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Packaging costs are being reset.
Tariffs, energy market swings, recycled content requirements, and shifting trade flows have hit steel, aluminum, plastic resins, and corrugated board at the same time. The result is a cost environment that is harder to read, harder to budget for, and harder to defend to stakeholders.
The volatility isn’t confined to one category. It’s across the board, and it isn’t going away.
Join Expana’s live session on June 18 at 11 AM ET / 4 PM BST, where packaging market specialists Andrew Woods and Artem Segen will break down what is driving costs across each material category and where the market stands as you head into H2 2026.
What you will learn:

How tariffs and production costs are driving material prices right now, and what that means for your budgets
The key drivers behind steel, aluminum, and plastic resin prices
What the corrugated and pulp markets look like heading into the second half of the year

Join us live to ask your questions and get real-time answers from our specialists.

Step-Change Solutions: What’s Next for Automation in Food & Beverage Manufacturing?
2026-06-18 14:00 - 15:00
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With food safety regulations tightening and operational costs continuing to rise, food and beverage manufacturers are under increasing pressure to improve efficiency, maintain compliance, and stay competitive. In this webinar, industry experts will explore how manufacturers can successfully automate for both today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities. Attendees will gain insight into common barriers to automation adoption and practical strategies for overcoming them, while also learning how to evaluate automation suppliers and develop effective integration plans.
The session will also examine emerging applications for artificial intelligence (AI) in food manufacturing, including how agentic AI could reshape operations, decision-making, and production workflows in the years ahead. Additionally, experts will discuss best practices for successful robot and cobot implementation, helping manufacturers identify scalable automation solutions that support long-term operational goals.
Learning Objectives:

Identify common barriers to automation adoption in food and beverage manufacturing and strategies to overcome them
Explain key considerations when evaluating automation suppliers and planning system integration
Explore current and emerging applications of AI in food manufacturing, including agentic AI
Understand best practices for successful robot and cobot implementation in manufacturing environments

Oilseeds & Oils: Global Market Outlook for 2026
2026-06-23 11:00 - 12:00
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Palm oil has been volatile due to new export rules and biodiesel correlations. Sunflower oil demand is thin amid new production. Olive oil prices have fallen sharply.
Market volatility is making the global oilseeds and oils markets harder to read. Today’s procurement and pricing strategies may no longer be impactful for tomorrow’s market conditions.
Join our experts on June 23 at 11 AM ET | 4 PM BST for an in-depth update on where the global oilseeds and oil markets are headed in 2026, what’s driving prices and supply – and the insights you need to plan ahead. → Click here to register
We’ll cover:

Price forecasts: Where palm, sunflower and olive oil markets are heading in 2026.
Palm oil supply trends: Production trends across Malaysia and Indonesia, sustainability pressures reshaping export flows, and near-term supply.
Sunflower oil supply forecasts: Geopolitical factors reshaping supply chains – and what 2026 production forecasts tell us about availability.
Olive oil’s structural tightness: Production outlook, quality premiums, and how scarcity is reshaping procurement and pricing strategy.
Competitive dynamics: What shifts in relative pricing for palm, olive and sunflower oil mean for your sourcing mix – and why this matters now.
Sustainability pressures: How regulatory requirements and ESG mandates are intersecting with your cost and supply challenges.

Who this session is for: Leaders in procurement, sourcing, supply chain, category management, traders and analysts navigating oilseed and oil volatility.

Rethinking Food Safety: Eliminating Biofilm and Building a Smarter Food Safety System
2026-06-25 14:00 - 14:30
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Traditional sanitation methods were not designed to address the full complexity of today’s food safety challenges. Persistent pathogens, biofilm formation, and harsh chemical limitations continue to create risk across food production environments from farm to processing facilities.
In this webinar, NomadX will introduce a modern approach to decontamination that goes beyond surface-level cleaning. Learn how ultra-pure chlorine dioxide (ClO257) is being deployed to effectively penetrate biofilm, reduce pathogen load, and integrate into real-world operational workflows without the drawbacks of legacy products. The session will also touch on how advanced decontamination fits into a broader, proactive food safety system—where improved sanitation, enhanced sampling, and emerging same-shift pathogen detection capabilities work together to help ensure contaminated product never leaves the facility.
Key takeaways:

Why traditional sanitation methods fall short against biofilm and persistent pathogens
How ClO257 differs from other sanitation products in efficacy and usability
Practical applications across food production environments (water lines, equipment, facilities)
How decontamination integrates into a broader food safety system, including emerging same-shift detection

Label Verification 101: Building a Bulletproof Process from Artwork to Shelf
2026-06-26 12:00 - 13:00
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About This Session
A mislabeled product is a recall waiting to happen. Allergen declaration errors, formula changes that never made it to the artwork file, marketing claims that outpaced what’s actually in the formulation, label mistakes are among the most preventable sources of FDA enforcement action and consumer harm.
In this FSMA Friday session, Tony Lukas, Director of Food Safety and Dietary Supplements at The Acheson Group, walks through what a solid label verification process actually looks like: mandatory vs. optional label elements, how to document formula and label changes so your revision history holds up during an audit, and which departments — R&D, marketing, regulatory, operations — need a seat at the table before anything goes to print.
If your label review process lives in email threads and tribal knowledge, this session is for you.
What You’ll Learn

Why label errors trigger recalls and FDA action and the specific gaps in documentation and sign-off that leave manufacturers exposed.
What belongs on every label and what optional claims add risk including how PAL statements and marketing language can create compliance exposure.
How to document formula and label changes correctly so your revision history holds up when an auditor asks for it.
Which departments should be involved and when R&D, marketing, regulatory, and operations all touch labels, and misalignment between them is where errors hide.

FSMA 204 in Practice: Building a Traceability-Ready Operation
2026-06-30 11:00 - 12:00
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FSMA 204 is creating a major operational challenge for food safety, quality, supplier management, operations, and supply chain teams. For many businesses, traceability data is still fragmented across suppliers, customers, third parties, internal systems, spreadsheets, and paper-based records.
The challenge is not only understanding Critical Tracking Events (CTEs), Key Data Elements (KDEs), and Traceability Lot Codes (TLCs). It is knowing whether the right information can be captured, validated, connected, and retrieved quickly when it matters most. Under FSMA 204, covered businesses are required to maintain specific traceability records and provide them to FDA within 24 hours, when requested.
Join Kevin Donaghy and Bill Bremer for a practical panel discussion on how food businesses can translate FSMA 204 into day-to-day operations, evaluate the strength of their current traceability records, and identify where traceability can break down across the supply chain.
The discussion will explore how businesses can move from fragmented records across systems, spreadsheets, and paper-based processes toward a more practical, connected, and defensible traceability readiness strategy. Attendees will gain insight into supplier coordination, lot tracking, documentation readiness, recall response, FDA-ready reporting, and building a traceability approach that works in the real world, not just on paper.
Key takeaways for attendees:

Learn how CTEs, KDEs, and TLCs apply to real-world activities in day-to-day operations
Explore how to assess whether your records are complete, accurate, searchable, connected, and ready to support a 24-hour FDA request
Understand common gaps that occur among suppliers, customers, third parties, and internal teams, and what businesses can do to improve coordination before an issue occurs
Learn how food businesses can move from fragmented records toward a more reliable approach for recall response, FDA requests, and supply chain visibility

One Material, One Package: Advancing Sustainability with All-PET Closures and Bottle
2026-07-14 14:00 - 15:00
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Sustainability in beverage packaging is evolving beyond recyclability, it’s about enabling true circularity without compromising performance, security, or efficiency. Join Husky on 14 July to explore how HyCAP™ SecuRE+ is redefining beverage packaging through a single-material approach, PET closure + PET bottle, designed to simplify recycling streams and support a fully circular packaging model. Discover how advanced closure development capabilities create opportunities for improved security, optimized capping efficiency, and meaningful lightweighting at the dispensing system level.
What you will learn:

How an all-PET bottle and closure approach simplifies recycling and supports full circularity
How HyCAP™ SecuRE+ enhances consumer security through innovative tamper evidence
Ways to improve capping performance and overall line efficiency
Lightweighting opportunities that improve sustainability and cost-efficiency
How integrated system-level optimization helps meet environmental and business targets

The Commodities Most Likely to Cost You: A Fraud Risk Primer for F&B Manufacturers
2026-07-31 11:00 - 12:00
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About This Session
Food fraud isn’t new, but adulteration methods are getting more sophisticated and enforcement remains reactive. Most manufacturers only discover a supplier integrity problem after the damage is done, often during an audit or after a recall. This session is designed to help FSQA and operations teams understand the risk before it becomes their problem.
What You’ll Learn

Which ingredients are most commonly adulterated: The specific commodities where substitution and dilution are most prevalent, and what to watch for.
What food fraud actually costs your operation: Beyond ingredient overpayment, the real exposure sits in recalls, rework, brand damage, legal liability, and how those risks compound.
How FDA defines Economically Motivated Adulteration: What 21 CFR Parts 117 and 507 require from your food safety program, and where most facilities have gaps they don’t know about.
Why detection is harder than it looks: The practical challenges of cost of testing, foreign supplier oversight, and the limits of documentation that make EMA a persistent problem even for compliant operations.

IFPA and Circana Floral and Produce Deep Dive Q3
2026-09-09 14:00 - 15:00
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Join IFPA and Circana for a fresh, data‑driven look at today’s produce and floral marketplace. This webinar explores the latest shopper trends, retail performance insights, and the economic forces influencing how consumers buy fresh fruits, vegetables, and floral products. Industry experts will unpack emerging behaviors, identify category growth opportunities, and highlight the marketplace dynamics shaping the year ahead.

IFPA and Circana Floral and Produce Deep Dive Q4
2026-12-02 14:00 - 15:00
