Exclusive Q&A: Foster Farms strives to be food-safety leader
Chicken processor positions itself to be an industry leader in all facets of processing business after a year of food-safety challenges.
This summer, during a trip to California, Andy Hanacek, editor-in-chief of The National Provisioner, sat down with Ira Brill, director of corporate communications for Foster Farms, to get an update on the company’s efforts to bounce back after a challenging year in which a Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak dominated the food-industry headlines in California and forced Foster Farms to reassess its food-safety strategies. What follows is a portion of that conversation:
Andy Hanacek: It has been a roller-coaster year for Foster Farms, without a doubt. As we sit here in July 2014, what do you believe has changed the most for Foster Farms after all this?