Georgius Gotsis, Our CEO, participated in the First Food Safety Symposium
Last Friday June 5, our CEO, Georgius Gotsis became a part in the First Food Safety Symposium, organized by the Center for Research in Food and Development (CIAD), the National Laboratory for Research in Food Safety, and the National Association for Food Safety and Quality of Mexico (ANICA), as part of the 2026 World Food Safety Day.
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The symposium addressed subjects which are fundamental to our industry. Presentations covered the national regulatory framework on food safety, led by COEPRISS Sinaloa; the overview of pesticide use in Mexico; microplastics in food and the challenges they pose; monitoring and surveillance of agents responsible for foodborne outbreaks; environmentally friendly strategies for pathogen control; and the future of food safety under the “One Health” approach.
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Experts from CIAD, COEPRISS, the National Technological Institute of Mexico (Culiacan and Mazatlan campuses), and various universities across the country took part in the event. It was a high‑level program that reaffirms the strength of Sinaloa when it comes to discussing food safety and making things right.
In his lecture, “Automation of Food Safety Processes,” our CEO was straightforward: modern food safety cannot rely solely on the goodwill of people. It requires systems that operate every day, with or without supervision, because in exports the margin for error is zero. He shared a statistic that calls for reflection: nearly 80% of product recalls originate from human error or non‑automated processes, and a recall can cost millions of dollars to a mid‑sized exporting company.
In the face of this, he demonstrated how technology is already transforming the way we protect what we grow: IoT sensors that monitor real time temperature, humidity, and water quality; machine vision in packing lines that detects defects with greater accuracy than the human eye; blockchain for unaltered traceability from the field to the customer; and automated records that go paperless.
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His underlying message was clear and profoundly human: technology detects problems, people solve them. The human factor does not disappear, it evolves. We are moving towards predictive and connected food safety, and those who take that step first will be the ones who make a difference in the market.
The Food Safety, Quality, and Continuous Improvement team from Agricola Belher, one of the farms in our Veggies From Mexico community, joined and actively participated. Thank you very much for attending.
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