Retailers are raising expectations when it comes to food safety, sanitation verification, and environmental monitoring. Join Food & Beverage Atlantic and LuminUltra for a practical, audit-informed session designed to help food and beverage processors strengthen their environmental monitoring programs and demonstrate retail readiness with confidence.
Be Retail-Ready: Meeting Microbial Testing Expectations goes beyond compliance checklists to explore how retailers and auditors evaluate sanitation effectiveness, environmental control, and risk management. This one-hour session focuses on common audit themes, supplier best practices, and how enhanced monitoring tools can support stronger, more defensible food safety programs without unnecessary complexity.
Delivered by experienced industry professionals from LuminUltra, the session will focus on industry-wide expectations around sanitation verification, environmental monitoring, and defensible food safety data, and how monitoring programs can be strengthened to support audit confidence.
You will leave this session with:
- A clearer understanding of how environmental monitoring supports retailer and audit confidence
- Insight into how A3 (ATP + ADP + AMP) testing can provide earlier and more sensitive hygiene verification than ATP-only approaches
- Practical ways to combine hygiene verification, rapid pathogen detection, and accredited lab testing within a risk-based monitoring program
- Guidance on using environmental monitoring data to support audit discussions and demonstrate program effectiveness
This session is ideal for food manufacturers, co-packers, and quality, food safety, sanitation, and operations leaders supplying retail or foodservice customers, including small to mid-sized processors preparing for larger accounts and established manufacturers seeking to strengthen audit readiness.
Your speakers for this webinar:
Sarah Cook
Sarah Cook is Market Development Director, Food & Beverage at LuminUltra, with 20 years of experience in regulated food production environments. She works closely with processors to strengthen environmental monitoring programs, improve sanitation verification strategies, and build confidence in microbial decision-making. With a background spanning auditing, feed manufacturing, seafood processing, and quality systems, Sarah brings a practical, industry-grounded perspective focused on helping teams move beyond compliance toward resilient, audit-ready food safety programs.
Peter Beers
With over 15 years of experience in food and beverage manufacturing, Peter Beers specializes in sanitation strategy and quality systems within complex production environments. He has partnered with processors across North America to modernize environmental monitoring programs and strengthen compliance with audit frameworks such as BRC, SQF, and CFIA. At LuminUltra, Peter works alongside industry leaders to advance microbial monitoring approaches, enhance sanitation validation, and help organizations build strong, proactive food safety cultures grounded in data, accountability, and continuous improvement.
