Inside the Largest Food Recall in US History with Darryl Riley

Episode Summary:

What happens when a product you helped create is part of the largest food recall in US history? For over 30 years, Darryl Riley has lived on the front lines of food safety, and he’s joining host Lydia Adams to share the hard-won lessons that you can’t learn from a textbook on this episode of Food Tech Talk: Supply Chain Insights From Farm to Fork.

This isn’t your typical discussion about protocols and compliance. Darryl pulls back the curtain on the intense, high-stakes world of CPG product development. He reveals why a culture of safety is about people, not just paperwork, and how getting R&D, marketing, and quality assurance to actually talk to each other is the secret to real innovation.

In this candid conversation, you’ll discover Darryl’s “Three Pillars of Leadership” (Humility, Business Acumen, and Empathy) and how they became his compass in moments of crisis. He also dives into the practical challenges facing the industry today: How do you meet the demand for “clean” ingredients without risking safety? And how can AI and new tech help us prevent the next big recall before it ever happens?

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If you want to understand what true leadership looks like under pressure and walk away with a proven framework for building a resilient food safety culture, don’t skip this episode.