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Food Surety Presentations at Food Safety Conferences and Webinars
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We aim to make food safety and compliance accessible for food professionals from all over the world. In this section of Food Surety’s website you will be able to find a selection of recorded presentations from our participation in food safety conferences and webinars to learn about food safety, auditing skills, food defence, food fraud prevention, building food safety culture and more!
New Zealand Institute of Environmental Heath – Webinar 2025
Beyond Evidence: How Skilled Verifiers Shape Safer Food Systems
In this 51-minute NZIEH webinar, Ray Haddad, Managing Director of Food Surety Limited, explores what separates a good food verifier from a great one.
The session opens with a striking real-world example linking poor food safety and public health: liver cancer rates in parts of Asia, worsened by hepatitis B infections and exposure to mycotoxins such as aflatoxin. This powerful story illustrates why robust verification and preventive systems matter — protecting consumers and saving lives.
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Drawing from international experience and hundreds of audit engagements, Ray shares practical insights on how mindset, communication, and risk-based thinking can turn verification into a force for real improvement.
Whether you verify, audit, or lead food-safety systems, this session will challenge you to think deeper, see more, and shape a safer food system.
🎥 Watch the full recording below — no sign-up required.
To learn more about conducting internal audits, external audits, or supplier audits and how verification links to preventing contamination and protecting public health, enrol in our: Advanced Auditor Training or Introductory auditor Training.
BrightStar Food Safety Risk and Compliance – 2023
The Business Case for Food Safety Culture: Engaging Senior Management and The Whole Team
From Farm to Fork: Strengthening Food Safety Systems for a Secure Future
Ray Haddad – Food Surety Limited
In today’s complex and evolving food industry, cultivating a resilient food safety culture is paramount to ensure long-term business viability. This presentation from Food Surety explores the significance of fostering a strong food safety culture and provides practical insights for engaging the entire team in this endeavour.
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The session begins by defining food safety culture and highlighting its importance in safeguarding consumer health. It emphasizes the correlation between a robust food safety culture and long-term business success, demonstrating the positive impact it has on reputation, and overall organisational performance.
Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the actions required to build and sustain a strong food safety culture, with a specific focus on engaging senior management and the entire team. Strategies and best practices will be shared, empowering participants to implement actionable steps within their organizations. By the end of the presentation, attendees will be equipped with the knowledge and tools to kick-start the development of a resilient food safety culture, driving positive change and fostering a safer and more successful food business.
To learn more you can enrol in Food Surety courses: Food Safety Culture Training – BRCGS Approved Course or Food Safety Governance & Culture Training for Directors, Executives & Business Owners
Food Safety, Risk and Compliance Conference – 2022
Codex HACCP Updates: Determining CCPs in 2022
Food Safety, Risk and Compliance Conference 2022
Towards a safe and sustainable food system
Ray Haddad – Food Surety Limited
In 1997, Codex Alimentarius have included HACCP as an annex in the “General principles of Food Hygiene”, that was a key moment harmonising HACCP application. To date, this document is the framework that many governmental legislation and Food Safety certification programmes use, hence fully understanding the latest requirements in the 2020 amendment is important to food safety professionals.
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This presentation has covered key updates and definitions, talk about Critical Control Points (CCPs) determination within the context of the updated requirements, and highlight updates your HACCP Plan might need.
To learn more about Food Safety and HACCP Principles application at your workplace you can enrol in our Food Surety: Introductory HACCP course, Advanced course HACCP Principles & Advanced Application or our Refresher HACCP course.
BrightStar Food Safety Risk and Compliance – 2023
Seeing the system: The power of the process-based audit
Exemplar Global
Online Auditor Expo – 2021
Ray Haddad – Food Surety Limited
These days, food businesses, their context, supply chains etc. are more complex, this led to more complex food safety and quality management systems and, by default, more complex audits.
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This presentation is aimed at seeing the system/the big picture, sharing practical tips on using the process-based approach, risk-based thinking, helping auditors finding their direction and pace, throughout the audit process, to help them delivering their audit objectives which in turn should help the auditee achieve their objectives too.
To learn more about Food Safety and HACCP Principles application at your workplace you can enrol in our Food Surety: Advanced Auditor Training or our Introductory Auditor Training
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