Michele has 40+ years of corporate and factory experience across a wide variety of food product types from beverages (including aseptic), confectionery, dry mixes, low moisture, acid & acidified sauces/dressings and low acid foods to frozen novelties and ice cream.
Michele’s experience includes the following areas:
- Food Safety criteria assessment and development
- Operational investigations focused on Root Cause Analysis and Corrective/Preventive Action with verifiable countermeasures
- Defect analysis and investigation in microbiological contamination incidents including product disposition recommendations
- Review of Cleaning and Sanitation effectiveness
- Leadership in Crisis Management (Recall) situations across product categories.
- FDA, USDA, CFIA, CPSC and other agencies interaction
- Consumer/customer complaint data and trend analysis and investigation
- Quality & Food Safety Training
- Food Safety and Quality criteria in company acquisition due diligence
- Foreign Matter and Pest Control incident prevention
- Development/deployment of consumer quality attribute measurements
