EP 32: Hurdling FSMA 204 Challenges, Tufts Cultured Meat Research, Australia Innovation Hotspot

Get fast-tracked into the world of the science of food with the March 2024 episodes of IFT’s Omnivore podcast. Dr. Jacob Bruun-Jensen, strategy principal, consumer industry with Monitor Deloitte, talks about the challenges of achieving compliance with FDA’s Food Traceability Rule. Director of science at Tufts Cellular Agriculture Commercialization Lab and entrepreneur-in-residence Andrew Stout explains his research on growth factors in bovine muscle cells and its impact on the cultured meat industry. Chris Downs, director of the Food and Beverage Accelerator (FaBA) at the University of Queensland, in Australia, shares why Australia is a hot spot of food system innovation in areas including seaweed, precision fermentation, agricultural robotics, and more. Plus: Learn how to empower your business to reduce the negative impact of recalls with IFT’s Enterprise Traceability Education Suite, the new one-stop resource and only education solution designed to quickly help get your entire organization up to speed on key traceability concepts. Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. GUESTS Dr. Jacob Bruun-Jensen , strategy principal, consumer industry with Monitor Deloitte, is a senior corporate strategist with more than 25 years of strategic planning experience As one of Deloitte Consulting LLP’s thought leaders on business model innovation and transformation, Dr. Bruun-Jensen works with consumer companies to make sense of the converging forces of consumer changes, digital technologies, and business ecosystems to reimagine business and operating models. Andrew Stout is the entrepreneur-in-residence and director of science at Tufts Cellular Agriculture Commercialization Lab at Tufts University. He is also the co-founder and chief scientific officer at Deco Labs. Chris Downs is the director of the Food and Beverage Accelerator (FaBA) at the University of Queensland, in Australia. He has more than 30 years of experience in the food industry as a scientist, innovation leader, and executive, with a focus on science and innovations that support the development of foods and beverages that are healthy, safe, and sustainably produced. Omnivore Podcast Join the award-winning editors of Food Technology magazine every other Monday for Omnivore, the podcast that intersects the business of food and the science of food, through lively discussion and interviews with product innovators, leading researchers, policy makers, and thought leaders from across the world of food.