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The Last Mile · Episode 3

Cold chain:the data everyone forgets

Temperature excursions rarely make the record, until they matter most.

With Dr. Sarah Chen, Recall specialistJun 11, 202652m

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Dr. Sarah Chen (Recall specialist) joins Sarah Mitchell on The Last Mile to unpack cold chain: the data everyone forgets. Drawing on years in food safety and supply-chain operations, Dr. shares hard-won lessons on traceability, response time, and the difference between looking compliant and actually being ready.

It’s a candid, practical conversation for anyone responsible for quality, compliance, or the moment a recall lands on their desk.

In this conversation

  1. 01What the first hour of an incident should really look like
  2. 02The traceability data that saves the most time
  3. 03Where most teams' chains actually break
  4. 04How to scope affected product without over-recalling
  5. 05Communicating with retailers and regulators under pressure
  6. 06What a genuinely recall-ready operation looks like
  7. 07The one metric every quality leader should track