Description
2 Sessions:
• 25 Sep, 2025, 06:00 UTC. (08:00 CEST)
• 25 Sep, 2025, 13:00 UTC. (15:00 CEST)
Estimated Time: 1 hr
Language: English
Summary of the lecture
Stainless steels are one of the few materials of choice used by commercial food and beverage producers as a contact material. There are good reasons why these organizations consistently select stainless steels including their supreme hygiene characteristics, ease of cleanability, no transfer of unwanted flavors to foods / beverages and their long safe service life.
Given all these proven benefits why do we then choose other materials and coated products when we prepare our own foods? We often choose Teflon-coated and ceramic-coated cookware and use plastic utensils when preparing our food. Furthermore, we frequently use plastic containers for storing and reheating our prepared foods. All these choices whilst now embedded into our society have been shown in recent years to have negative impacts on our health.
During this webinar, worldstainless Secretary-General Tim Collins will explain why stainless steels are the perfect food and beverage contact material and will outline using compelling academic research the health risks associated with other material choices.
Join us on 25 September 2025 for our next thought-provoking webinar.
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Understand why stainless steels are the preferred material for commercial food and beverage applications.
Learn about the health risks associated with using alternative materials such as plastics, Teflon, and ceramics.
Explore academic research supporting the safety and hygiene benefits of stainless steel.
Gain insights into how material choices impact food safety and long-term health.
Speaker Introduction
Tim Collins
Secretary-General
worldstainless
After leaving school he studied metallurgy at university and joined British Steel Stainless immediately after graduating. A succession of industry mergers saw Tim undertaking senior stainless technical, operations and supply chain roles in the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK before joining the ISSF (now worldstainless) in August 2019. During his career Tim also found time to study Goldratt’s teaching on lean flow and operations, gain a postgraduate diploma in operations and inventory management and a masters degree in business administration.
Away from work Tim still supports his boyhood football club, Sheffield Wednesday and enjoys rock music, cycling, fine wines and craft ales.
