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Food Safety Insights From Both Sides of the Audit with Melody Ge, CTO at EAGLE Certification Group | Episode 142
In this episode of Don’t Eat Poop!, our hosts Matt and Francine are joined by Melody Ge, the Founder of Women in Food Safety and Chief Technical Officer at EAGLE Certification Group, straight from the Food Safety Consortium 2025.
They’ve been wanting to have Melody on the show for years, and it’s finally worked out. There’s a cumulative 70 years of experience among them in this episode, and you’ll hear the stories that come along with it.
Learn more about the 5-year-old Women in Food Safety community, which has recently become a full-fledged nonprofit. Get the lay of the land in the food safety auditing world, learn what’s missing, and discover how Melody, who has been both an auditor and an auditee, and her team at EAGLE are working to change that reality.
In this episode:
💩 [01:22] Melody’s almost 20 years of making food safe
💩 [04:04] Building a community for Women in Food Safety
💩 [07:40] The biggest challenge every food safety professional faces
💩 [12:43] Why retailers’ confidence in audits and GFSI certifications is low
💩 [15:53] How Melody and EAGLE are working to rebuild that confidence
💩 [24:09] What’s missing and the future of GFSI
💩 [31:45] How to help pipeline the future consistently good auditors
💩 [37:26] The realities of life as an auditor
💩 [40:52] Melody’s favorite thing about the Food Safety Consortium
Disclaimer: Episode title and content do not constitute legal or health advice.
Resources from this episode
Learn more about and join the Women in Food Safety through their LinkedIn or website.
Noteworthy quotes from this episode
“ Regardless, it’s either the auditee or the auditor. We all want food safety. This is a common goal, and I never doubted that before. It’s the approach and the position we’re in [that are] very different. So, how can we help each other and make the most value out of it?” – Melody Ge
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