2025 Agenda - Day 2

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Global disruptions, trade disputes, and increasing regulatory scrutiny have exposed the vulnerabilities of food and beverage supply chains. Explore how regulatory frameworks are evolving to ensure safety, transparency, and resilience across the chain — from farm to fork. Take back to your office strategies to:

• Ensure compliance under pressure by adapting inspection and traceability requirements amid global supply disruptions.
• Harness digital traceability tools to maintain compliance and reduce recall risk in a complex international supply chain.
• Navigate cross-border friction, regulatory mismatches, and customs delays between Canada, the U.S., the EU, and other major trading partners.

Enhance your supply chain’s resilience and regulatory compliance to meet evolving global challenges confidently.

As the pace of change accelerates, so does the need for industry to understand and navigate an evolving regulatory landscape. Examine the current state and future direction of regulation for plant-based, biotech, and novel foods in Canada and key global markets. Create a roadmap to:

• Develop strategies for engaging with regulators early in the innovation process to reduce time-to-market.
• Identify key compliance considerations for novel food approval, labelling, and safety assessments.
• Gain real-world insights from companies navigating the regulatory journey for emerging food technologies.
• Explore how collaboration between innovators, consultants, and regulatory experts is shaping the next wave of compliant, consumer-ready products.

Heighten your understanding of the evolving regulatory landscape for plant-based, biotech, and novel foods to accelerate innovation, ensure compliance, and deliver consumer-ready products.

Implement cutting-edge solutions for identifying pathogens in emerging food categories. Ensure product integrity and consumer safety with innovative detection technologies. Walk away with an action plan on:

• Implementing rapid testing methods tailored to novel food production.
• Enhancing accuracy and sensitivity in microbial screening processes.
• Meeting evolving safety standards using validated detection systems.

Bolster the safety of your novel food products with innovative pathogen detection tools to maintain consumer confidence.

Innovative technologies that monitor food production and distribution provide real-time insights into supply chain operations. Achieve a step-by-step action plan to:

• Improve traceability to enhance food safety.
• Accelerate response times to contamination events and other emergencies.
• Streamline accurate documentation processes to support regulatory compliance.

Perfect product traceability with advanced technologies to boost supply chain reliability and safety.

Navigate the complexities of allergen control with industry best practices and regulatory insights. Protect consumers and maintain compliance across every step of the supply chain. Adopt best practices to:

• Prevent cross-contact through robust handling procedures.
• Ensure accurate labelling to reduce consumer health risks.
• Stay ahead of emerging risks with up-to-date awareness of new allergens.

Improve your allergen management strategies to ensure food safety, regulatory compliance, and consumer trust.

Legal and regulatory alignment is key to minimizing risk and avoiding costly missteps. Strengthen your compliance framework by staying informed and collaborative. Take back to your office strategies to:

• Identify regulatory grey areas that pose legal vulnerabilities.
• Monitor emerging litigation trends across the U.S. and Canada.
• Foster stronger collaboration between legal and regulatory teams.

Advance your ability to navigate complexity, avoid penalties, and stay ahead of evolving compliance challenges.

Expanding into international markets brings both opportunities and regulatory complexity. Ensuring that your food labels meet the standards of multiple jurisdictions is essential to maintaining brand trust and legal compliance.  Master the success factors to:

• Navigate key regulatory differences between Canadian and international food labelling standards.
• Maintain label accuracy and integrity while managing translations, claims, and content requirements.
• Align product packaging with import and export documentation to support smooth border clearance.
• Avoid costly delays, recalls, or penalties through proactive compliance planning.
• Learn best practices from global case studies where trade compliance and labelling integrity intersect.

Optimize your cross-border success by mastering the critical link between regulatory compliance and label accuracy.

Review the key solutions and takeaways from the conference. Source a summary of action points to implement in your work.