SENA Panel: The NFI Sushi Council: A Pre-Competitive Collaboration for Food Safety

Culimer USA CEO Michael McNicholas, True World Group President Robert Bleu, Blue Ocean Mariculture CEO Dick Jones, and National Fisheries Institute Senior Market Analyst and Director of Programs Richard Barry during the SENA Panel: The NFI Sushi Council: A Pre-Competitive Collaboration for Food Safety
Culimer USA CEO Michael McNicholas, True World Group President Robert Bleu, Blue Ocean Mariculture CEO Dick Jones, and National Fisheries Institute Senior Market Analyst and Director of Programs Richard Barry during the SENA Panel: The NFI Sushi Council: A Pre-Competitive Collaboration for Food Safety
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An on-demand video of “The NFI Sushi Council: A Pre-Competitive Collaboration for Food Safety” is available free for SeafoodSource Premium members and for USD 350 (EUR 315) to non-members through the Complete Digital Ticket: Seafood Expo North America 2024.

Featuring National Fisheries Institute Senior Market Analyst and Director of Programs Richard Barry; Aquamar CEO Daryl Gormley; Blue Ocean Mariculture CEO Dick Jones; Culimer USA CEO Michael McNicholas; and True World Group President Robert Bleu, the panel was held on Monday, 11 March, with the following description:

The National Fisheries Institute Sushi Council seeks to provide food safety guidance throughout the sushi supply chain. A newly formed pre-competitive collaboration of sushi harvesters, processors, distributors and end-users, the Sushi Council will produce best practices for each cold chain segment to ensure seafood destined for use in sushi and sashimi preparations is handled in a responsible manner. The session will feature leading industry voices reviewing the U.S. sushi market, the Sushi Council mission and the need for industry-led food safety guidance on raw and ready-to-eat sushi and sashimi products. 

The 2024 Seafood Expo North America, which took place 10 to 12 March in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., featured a comprehensive conference program of live panel events focusing on topics chosen to be of vital interest to the seafood industry.

The 31 individual presentations from SENA featured exclusive information and insight from seafood industry experts, on a range of topics including diversity in the seafood industry, how artificial intelligence could be used in the industry, what impact FDA FSMA 204 updates will have, traceability, and more.

Calls for proposals for the 2025 editions of both SENA’s conference and for the conference at Seafood Expo Global in Barcelona, Spain are now live. Running from 16 to 18 March 2025, an overview of the SENA conference program is available online and proposals can be submitted through 13 September. A program overview is also available for Seafood Expo Global – which is running from 6 to 8 May 2025 – and conference proposals can be submitted through 13 September.


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