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Circana’s Sally Lyons Wyatt offers a mid-year update on how the food and beverage industry has fared through the first half of 2024. In this episode, Lyons Wyatt shares insights on inflation, how consumers are spending differently at this point in 2024, and four factors to monitor the rest of the year for their impact on consumers trends in food and beverage.

Sarah Gallo, vice president of Product Policy at the Consumer Brands Association, discusses the increasing activity around state legislatures attempting to flex their muscle and ban or restrict food additives in recent years.

Sharon Beals, current owner of SKKB LLC and former food safety leader for several food processors and foodservice operators over the years, discusses her thoughts on why such a strategy can be important and help set the tone for the company — but also how food safety culture alone cannot create an atmosphere in which food safety is truly the top priority.

In this bonus audio, Food Processing senior editor Andy Hanacek asks what has various federal agencies particularly concerned about the most recent outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) during a Town Hall panel at the Food Safety Summit in Rosemont, Ill.

Editor-in-chief Dave Fusaro discusses the trends and novel products he saw -- and tasted -- while attending Natural Products Expo West this spring.

George Swartz, vice president of sales for Loadsmart’s Transportation Solutions Group, talks about the logistics challenges that food and beverage processors face, and how they can improve the efficiency of their supply chain and reap sustainability benefits from certain strategies as well.