Tuesday 20th October, 13:00 - 14:00 BST

Join us for Part Two of our Allergen Management Series, hosted in partnership with Campden BRI.

In Part One, Closing the Gap, we looked at why allergen incidents remain a persistent problem despite significant industry investment, and where the gaps in allergen management most often lie. This session picks up where we left off, focusing on one of the most critical of those gaps: cleaning.

Unlike microbial risks, allergens can’t be killed, only removed, and an allergen clean is much more than a longer version of a standard clean. Yet many sites are being asked to manage more allergen changeovers, in shorter hygiene windows, with fewer experienced hygiene people to call on. Procedures that look robust on paper can quickly come under strain.

Our speakers bring together lab, audit and factory-floor perspectives: Wendy Duncan and Marie-Anne Clarke of Campden BRI, John Hessey of Hygiene Improvement Solutions, and Alex Carlyon of Klipspringer. Together, they’ll explore what an effective allergen clean involves, why so many fall short, and how to get it right using the time and resources you actually have.

Whether you work in hygiene, technical or production, you’ll leave with practical points to take back to site. The session closes with a live Q&A, giving you the chance to put the real-world challenges you face to our expert panel.

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Webinar Speakers

Alex Carlyon

Key Account Director
Klipspringer

Wendy Duncan

Safety, Quality & Allergens Manager
Campden BRI

Marie-Anne Clarke

Allergens Team Manager
Campden BRI

John Hessey

Managing Director, Hygiene Improvement Solutions Ltd.

Wendy Duncan

With more than 25 years in food manufacturing, Wendy has built her career in the FMCG sector across the UK and Europe. She now leads on allergens within Campden BRI’s Food Safety Management Systems team, where her training and consultancy work helps clients get to grips with allergen risk and ensure compliance.

  • Member of the FDF Allergen Steering Group
  • Technical Committee of the Federation of Bakers (Safety and Allergen Support)
  • Member of RSPH
  • Associate IFST member

Marie-Anne Clarke

With over 20 years’ experience in analytical science, Marie leads the Allergen Testing and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology teams at Campden BRI. Through consultancy projects, she helps organisations strengthen quality assurance frameworks, optimise testing programmes and align with UK and international food safety requirements.

  • Expertise in analytical testing, allergen risk management, molecular detection methods, species authenticity verification and GMO analysis
  • Experienced in allergen cleaning validation and verification (for both allergen management and reusable containers)
  • Designs and implements analytical testing strategies, validates laboratory methods and investigates contamination incidents

John Hessey

With over 30 years’ experience in the food industry, John has held operational, technical and hygiene management roles. He is Managing Director of Hygiene Improvement Solutions Limited, a company he founded in 2011, which provides hygiene consultancy, interim hygiene management, skilled hygiene labour and contract cleaning services.

  • Qualified BRCGS Auditor
  • Experience with companies supplying Marks & Spencer, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Waitrose, Co-op, Boots and Morrisons
  • Experienced chilled factory and bakery hygiene manager, specialising in lean management techniques, hygiene standards, audit compliance and solving microbiological problems

Key Webinar Areas

1. Making Allergen Cleaning Theory Work (Campden BRI)

This session focuses on the practical application of allergen cleaning: how to plan, carry out and prove a clean that works on your site, and where cleans commonly go wrong.

2. Why Allergen Cleans Fail on Site(John Hessey)

Drawing on a career spanning hygiene management, contract cleaning and auditing, John looks at why allergen cleans fail on site and what it takes to get them right.

3. Allergen Cleaning in a Shrinking Hygiene Window (Alex Carlyon)

Hygiene windows are getting shorter, and experienced hygiene people are harder to find. Discover how sites can work within those pressures, rather than against them.

4. Live Q&A with theexpert panel

Whether your challenge is planning, carrying out or proving a clean, this is your chance to put it to our expert panel and take practical answers back to site.

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If you joined us for Part 1 of the Webinar Series, you are already signed up for Parts 2 and 3, so there’s nothing more you need to do.