How can AI help food and beverage teams spend less time chasing data and more time innovating?
In this episode of the FSQ Net Podcast, Danielle Goad, Director EMEA, and Andy Stark, Global GM – AI Products at Specright, join FSQ Net to explore how specification management, better data and purpose-built AI are changing the way food and beverage products are developed.
Andy discusses why so many food scientists and product developers are still reliant on spreadsheets, the risks created by fragmented ingredient and specification data, and how AI can help streamline formulation, ingredient substitutions, regulatory checks and label creation.
Danielle also shares Specright’s experience expanding into Europe, the growing importance of specification data management, and the challenges businesses face as regulations such as the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) introduce further complexity.
The conversation also looks at attitudes towards AI across the food industry, data security and adoption, and why the future of AI in R&D may be less about replacing human creativity and more about removing the repetitive work that prevents highly skilled teams from focusing on innovation.
