On July 14—the day after the release of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) New Era of Smarter Food Safety blueprint—Frank Yiannas, the agency’s deputy commissioner for food policy and response, spoke to SHIFT20 attendees in a featured session titled “The Future of Food Safety.” The timing was fortuitous, Yiannas noted, given the release of the blueprint and that he was asked to speak about the role of data science and emerging technologies and how they shape the future of food safety.…