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Dr Anne Marie Api is a highly experienced toxicologist and long-standing leader at the Research Institute for Fragrance Materials (RIFM), where she has worked for most of her career. She has held senior scientific leadership roles, including Vice President of Human Health Sciences and is now President of RIFM. In this episode of Predictably Good we explore how fragrance safety science has evolved,...

Following a busy summer of industry conferences, meetings and conversations I sit down with Brendan Ring and James Doyle to discuss What the Summer Conference Circuit Tells Us About AI, Data & Risk .  We explore the themes that came up time and again: where AI is genuinely starting to make an impact, how organisations are changing the way they think about data, and how approaches to risk manag...

Sara Mortimore is an independent food safety adviser and former Global Vice President of Food Safety at Walmart, where she led the company's global food safety strategy across its stores, ecommerce, supply chain, and private brands. Previously, she held senior food safety and quality leadership roles at Land O’Lakes and General Mills. With more than 40 years of experience, Sara is a co-author...

Patrick Quade is the Founder and CEO of DineSafe and creator of Iwaspoisoned.com, a crowdsourced platform for reporting and detecting foodborne illness outbreaks in real time. Originally from Australia, he has a background in finance and technology, with roles at Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan, and founded DineSafe after experiencing food poisoning himself. Based in New York, he leads efforts to u...

Chris is the founder of the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen’s University Belfast and is an Honorary Professor there now. He is also Professor of Food Security at Thammasat University in Thailand. He has published around 600 peer-reviewed articles on the detection and control of agriculture, food, and environmental-related contaminants. Chris led the independent review of Britain’s food...

Matt is an Associate Professor of Applied Food Safety in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  His work uses risk assessment and innovative laboratory methods to advance food safety microbiology. --- Where AI, Data, and Predictive Intelligence Shape Better Decisions From public health to financial markets, from food safety to nuclear...