US: Schnucks' food safety training starts with CEO

21.aug.09
Supermarket News

ST. LOUIS -- Schnuck Markets here has implemented "some massive
improvements" in its food safety efforts, including a wide-ranging
training program, said Dianna Pasley, the chain's director of food
safety and chair of the Food Marketing Institute's Food Protection
Committee, during an SN-hosted webinar yesterday.
Food safety training has been implemented for everyone "from our CEO to
our warehouse folks down to the store level, even our porters," she
said.
Schnucks has also reviewed all of its food safety policies to determine
if there are any other ways to "prevent additional risk," she said.
"We've increased our prevention focus tremendously." Traceability, she
added, "will continue to be challenging," although "we're ahead of the
game in produce," thanks to the Produce Traceability Initiative.