From Product Hold to Resolution What Happens After Foreign Material Is Suspected | Ian Reagan

A possible foreign-material event can stop production, place large quantities of product on hold, and force difficult decisions about safety, recovery, destruction, and customer notification. In this episode of Inside the Room, Susan Bond talks with Ian Reagan, Managing Partner of SafeScan, about what happens after contamination is suspected and in-line inspection is no longer enough. They follow the process from Detect to Retrieve to Resolve—examining how inspection protocols are validated, how traceability supports decisions, and what manufacturers should have in place before a high-stakes product event occurs. Ian Reagan, Managing Partner, SafeScan LinkedIn:   / ireagan   Website: https://www.safescaninspection.com/ If your business is facing a foreign material event, or wants to be ready before one happens, get in touch with Ian and the SafeScan team to talk through what reinspection could look like for you. I hope you enjoyed this episode! If you found this conversation useful, please like, subscribe, and share it with someone who'd benefit. Susan and the Inside The Room podcast team Susan's LinkedIn:   / susan-bond   Website: https://www.bondadvisorygroupllc.com/ Listen on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0z4x4D6... Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/in... Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/de2... #insidetheroom #fdaregulatory #foodregulation #regulatoryaffairs #foodsafety #foodtech #alternativeprotein #functionalfoods #dietarysupplements #agtech #foodinnovation #regulatorystrategy #marketaccess #foodindustry #compliancestrategy Inside The Room is a podcast of conversations with the food, nutrition, and ag operators who turned regulation into a competitive edge, for founders and operators building the next generation of these industries. Each episode is a look at the regulatory gate standing between a promising product and the market, and what it actually takes to get through it. Host Susan Bond spent over twenty years inside the regulatory world, including roles across the Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance and the Sprout Safety Alliance at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Kerry, and Abbott, and holds a Master's in Biotechnology. She now runs Bond Advisory Group, helping organisations turn regulatory complexity into a strategic advantage, and brings that same operator's view of what it takes to bring a product to market on schedule to every episode. Inside The Room is built for founders, CEOs, chief scientific officers, and regulatory and quality leaders at funded, scaling companies across novel ingredients, functional foods, alternative protein, fermentation, dietary supplements, pet and animal nutrition, and agtech. Listeners get a genuine, peer-level look at how the operators ahead of them cleared their own regulatory gates, and what they'd do differently next time.