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FOOD SAFETY

"If you get
a call from
government
regulators or
the Centers
for Disease
Control and
Prevention
and they
say, 'We are
attributing
a food safety
outbreak to
you,' unless
you have
gathered a
lot of data
prior to that,
that call can
come as a real
surprise. And
you really
don't want to
be surprised."
- ROBERT O'CONNOR

be surprised. You want to know leading up to it
that you have entered high-risk waters by using
your own data."
O'Connor believes Foster Farms stands out
from other poultry processors in the amount
of data it collects from live production and
processing.
"It's not that we never used to collect data,
but we didn't do it as expansively as we do
today. We did it more situationally," he says.
Above all the interventions that the
company has invested, O'Connor says Foster
Farms wouldn't be in the place it is today if it
didn't ratchet up its data monitoring, collection
and analysis.
Brill says collecting data is essential.
"The reality is that it's only through accurate
measurement and accurate reporting that we
are actually going to be able to determine how
much progress we are truly making," he adds.
While O'Connor admits it's easy to get
bogged down in data, he says the goal
remains to persevere through collection to
find patterns and trends. And in order to not
get bogged down and not come to haphazard
conclusions, it's important to reach out to
external resources, which Foster Farms does.
The company is using laboratory services at
the Univ. of California, Davis to help analyze
the data.
O'Connor and his staff are also working with
Metabiota, a Silicon Valley firm that uses analytics
to track human diseases. Metabiota is helping
Foster Farms do the same thing in poultry.
"What Metabiota has done in human
medicine is build systems that allow for health
agencies to predict where a global virus might
emerge," O'Connor says. "They have shown me
some powerful tools for upping our game in
terms of data analysis."
O'Connor says he would like to see a
diagnostic test developed for live production
that provides quantitative data through a drag
swab of whether a broiler house is infected
with a little Salmonella or a lot of it. That way,
he would be able to ramp up intervention when
the broilers from that house made it to the
processing plant.
"I think that would be really valuable for
the industry overall," he adds. "Then you would
have a predictor. I'd like to understand my
hot spots before they hit the plant. That's my
ultimate data dream."
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