Learn from the brightest minds in food science and top innovators in the food industry in the October episodes of the Omnivore podcast.
IFT’s Tracy Fink talks about risk management and best practices in mitigating chemical hazards, including PFAS, BVO, and heavy metals. Andrew Csicsila, partner and managing director for AlixPartners, shares his insights and advice on how food and beverage companies can use social media and AI to find white spaces for new product development. Ori Zohar, Shark Tank contestant and co-CEO of single-origin spice company Burlap & Barrel, dishes on takeaways from pitching on the show and how to make the most it if your company gets the producer’s call.
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GUESTS
Tracy Fink, MS, PCQI, is director, scientific programs and science and policy initiatives, Institute of Food Technologists. She has more than 25 years’ experience in leading food safety and logistics initiatives for the food industry, including with The Schwan Food Co. and NSF International.
Andrew Csicsila is partner and managing director for AlixPartners consultancy. As the North America practice lead for consumer products, Csicsila has a consistent track record of improving the performance of consumer, industrial, and PE portfolio companies.
Ori Zohar is cofounder and co-CEO of Burlap & Barrel, who (along with co-CEO Ethan Frisch) masterminded a spicy pitch for the Shark Tank in July 2023. The social enterprise company sources and sells single origin spices sourced directly from small farms and is building new international spice supply chains that are equitable, transparent and traceable.
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.
