Biomapping Evolution: Food Safety Management in Animal Protein Operations

Microbial risk in meat and poultry operations doesn't announce itself. It builds across processing environments in patterns that reactive testing programs are structurally too slow to catch. Biomapping and enviromapping change that by converting large-scale microbial datasets into the kind of predictive intelligence that makes proactive intervention possible. In this session, Dr. Marcos X. Sanchez-Plata, Associate Professor of Global Food Security and Food Safety at Texas Tech University's International Center for Food Industry Excellence, walks through how biomapping programs are being designed and applied in animal protein operations. The session covers how to characterize microbial risks accurately across complex processing environments, how to use dataset scale to identify trends and optimize intervention timing, and how to translate that data into root cause analysis and continuous improvement workflows that strengthen process control over time. For food safety professionals in meat and poultry who are managing microbial risk programs built around reactive sampling, this session provides the technical and operational framework for moving to a predictive model. Speaker: Dr. Marcos X. Sanchez-Plata, Associate Professor of Global Food Security and Food Safety, Texas Tech University: International Center for Food Industry Excellence