Terry ry Levee, e, Sr. Director ector, Food d Safety & - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Terry ry Levee, e, Sr. Director ector, Food d Safety & Regulator ory y Complia iance, ce, Giant Eagle Inc.

Establish a “0” Incident Food Safety Culture through Engaging all people in executing the 3 Safety Steps Respect the Risk See It…Own It Step Up & Speak Out to Prevent the Possibility

Food Safety is our TOP priority Create a Food Safety culture through awareness driven from the top down Through proper training and education enhance our company compliance with the desired food safety behaviors that makes food safety one of our core values to success. Think about the risks in our company's food safety system and how your stores behavior/culture directly impacts it- how can you improve the food safety performance within the organization or area of responsibility? Guiding Principles: All incidents are preventable. Every person plays a critical role in preventing incidents .

Food Safety is our TOP priority - GE takes compliance seriously because it’s the right thing to do for our customers and team members • Corporate Quality Assurance • In store recipe and scale label review for regulatory compliance and accuracy of ingredients • Regulatory Compliance in store (menu labeling, allergen declaration, etc) • Vendor Compliance Program (corporate label and local vendors) • Review of 6,000+ private label products • Corporate Food Safety • Retail Auditing (Steritech) and Training (FMC, Food Safety Basics Course, etc.) • Food Safety Projects (Auto-Temp; Listeria Control), Bi-weekly themes • Central Commissary, Warehouse Food Safety Programs • Regulatory Compliance (Food Safety Modernization Act) • Cold Chain Management from Vendor to Customer • Grassroots Town Hall • Opportunity to communicate the importance of Food Safety and the Corporate Strategy to our Team Members

• Allergen Risk Identification Plan • QA and Operational plan to proactively review and ensure allergen labeling compliance • QA review is the 1 st line of defense and the store is the last line of defense • GE Central “Ask the Experts” Link • Food Safety questions (cleaning and sanitizing, safe temperatures, pest control, etc) • Quality Assurance questions (scale tags, recipes, ingredients, allergens, etc) • Nutrition Service questions (related to “dietitian picks”, healthy options, etc.

• Curbside Express • Build food safety into all processes • Assure temperature control during transportation and storage at remote sites • Temperature trials conducted using various combinations of passive refrigeration products/environmental temperatures • Prevent cross-contamination in selection, transport, and storage of orders • GE Home Delivery • Build food safety into all processes • Assure time/temperature control during delivery

Terry Levee Senior Director, Food Safety and Quality Assurance Giant Eagle, Inc. terry.levee@gianteagle.com 412-967-4889