Quality Assurance & Food Safety has published a Q&A with Andy McNeill, a keynote speaker lined up for the Organics Recycling Conference 2026, ahead of the event.

The outlet, which serves food-industry quality assurance and food safety professionals, framed the interview around the agenda McNeill will bring to the conference podium. The session slots the organics recycling stream directly against the compliance concerns of food manufacturers and processors — the sector whose feedstock, residuals and spoilage make up much of the material moving through composting and anaerobic digestion infrastructure.

The conference itself targets the 2026 event cycle, giving operators, QA managers and regulators roughly a year of runway to align on the standards discussion McNeill's keynote is expected to open. The Q&A format signals the organizers' intent to put contamination control, process assurance and food-safety interface questions on the record before the program convenes.

No tonnage figures, plant capacities or venue details appear in the published item, which consists of the interview announcement and outlet attribution.

What happens next: the full keynote at the Organics Recycling Conference 2026 will determine whether the food-safety framing translates into trackable commitments — audit protocols, contamination thresholds or feedstock specifications — for the organics processing sector.