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From regulatory red flags to inspection prep, the 3-A SSI 2026 Fall Webinar Series continues strong.
The 3-A SSI 2026 Fall Webinar Series has two sessions left, and you don't have to choose. Register once (it's free!) and you get access to all three sessions in the series. Two sessions remain:
A quick fix on the plant floor can become a full regulatory inspection faster than most plant teams expect. Brian Wise has seen it happen. As chief of the Dairy Division at the Ohio Department of Agriculture, he has watched routine equipment modifications draw that kind of scrutiny.
Wise explains which changes cross the line, why they set regulators in motion and how to protect your plant before anyone picks up a wrench.
Four 3-A SSI Certified Conformance Evaluators walk through how to prepare for a Third Party Verification inspection, from the documentation you need to the inspection itself:
The series kicked off Oct. 1 with Kerry leaders explaining how the company turned a critical incident into a hygienic design strategy.
Kerry's Aleisha Jaeger, Senior Director Engineering, Global Biotechnology Solutions, and Matthew Dec, North America Sanitation Director, traced the company's multiyear transformation. It began with "Project Compass," grew into technical standards and a playbook, and made hygienic design part of capital engineering.
The session also covered:
Registration gives you access to all three sessions in the series, including the two still ahead: regulatory red flags on Nov. 5 and Third Party Verification prep on Dec. 3. There is no cost for these webinars.
Five groups are kicking off, five are deep in technical review andone proposed update is already open for comment.
At the EHEDG World Congress in Vienna, Austria, 3-A SSI Executive Director Meri Beth Wojtaszek saw how putting working groups and their volunteers front and center can energize a field. Here's what she brought home and how 3-A SSI plans to spotlight its updated standards at the 3-A SSI 2027 Summit on Hygienic Design.
At PACK EXPO 2026, conversations at the 3-A SSI booth kept circling back to confidence, easy access to information and new ways to get involved. Here's how to put those takeaways to work before the year ends.
A team from Louisiana State University earned third-place honors in the 2026 Student Hygienic Design Competition. Learn how they approached the challenge and what the competition meant to them.
