In Food Safety Insights, our goal is to bring you the best information on what is happening in the market and throughout the food safety business. We often do that by first selecting a topic to explore and then asking you and other experts for your thoughts and opinions.

Sometimes, however, we take another approach. Instead of first selecting a topic to explore, we ask you more open-ended questions about what thoughts are foremost on your mind. This was our approach this time. We asked open-ended questions about key topics in food safety to hear your opinions on the topics that you see as being most important. These topics included your priorities for your food safety program in the next 1–2 years, which regulations or issues you think will affect you the most in the near future, and which consumer issues will drive the most change. We also asked more specific questions, such as if your business has recovered from COVID-19, what related supply issues are you experiencing, and if you are able to find and hire the qualified people needed to run your food safety program.