Guide to Food Safety and Quality during Transportation

Dr. John Ryan was the Administrator for the Hawaii State Department of Agriculture's Quality Assurance Division. He was responsible for developing food safety and traceability systems within the state of Hawaii. Dr. Ryan piloted the USA's first farm-to-fork award winning internet-enabled RFID food traceability system and one of America's early high-technology sensor based temperature control supply chain food safety system. He has recently worked with a number of international companies to establish real-time international food traceability that reports trans-Pacific transportation temperatures and tests for bacteria, explosives and container tampering. He spent two years as co-team leader for President Obama's FDA/CDC Information Technology team and also served on the FDA Performance Management and Standards Developments team. He is the president of Ryan Systems, located in Canyon Lake, CA.

1. Introduction to Transporter Container Sanitation, Traceability and Temperature Controls2. Recent Research and Articles3. Current and Emerging Transportation Food Safety Models4. FDA FSMA Rules on the Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Foods5. Impact of the FSMA Preventive Controls on Transportation Food Safety (Supply Chain Controls, Environmental Monitoring, Validation of Preventive Controls, Statistical Solutions)6. Foreign Suppliers7. Introduction to In-Transit Food Safety Auditing and Standards8. System Management and Record Keeping9. Cross Contamination through Transportation Processes10.Dairy Logistics Food Safety in Storage and Transportation11. In-Transit HARPC Planning and Implementation12. Food Cargo Theft13. Logistics Management, Sanitation, Temperature Control and Traceability Standards using a relatively low cost container identification tracking and reporting system14. Assessing your practices, training your people, preparing for audits and becoming certified15. System Implementation16. The Future