CFO Magazine

Ultimately, then, prevention is still the best medicine. "The key thing for food companies is to test, test, test," says Alan Schoem, senior vice president for the global product risk practice at Marsh Inc., a risk and insurance services firm, and a former director of compliance for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. "You have to know your suppliers, you have to know that what you intended to get from them you are getting, and you have to be particularly vigilant when sourcing from Asia."