2004 to

(Undisclosed Consulting Company)

Senior Consultant

She provides expertise regarding food safety and regulatory assistance to the retail food store and food service industries. Her specialty is evaluating food systems for risk factors that may contribute to foodborne disease, and helping industry to identify and manage them for the long-term. She is available to write or research regulatory language pertaining to the industry. She provides training on issues related to retail food safety and the Food Code.

1994 to 2004

US Food & Drug Administration

Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition

Consumer Safety Officer

She is a specialist in food safety issues in retail food stores and food service establishments, and the writing and updating of the Food Code. She is a trainer for numerous FDA-sponsored food safety courses provided for state and local regulatory agencies. She is a writer and liaison for the FDA to the Institute of Food Technologists' contract entitled “Potentially Hazardous Foods.” She is an FDA consultant to the Conference for Food Protection, and co-author of the FDA guidance document Managing Food Safety: A HACCP Principles Guide for the Operators of Food Establishments at the Retail Level. She is responsible for field standardization and certification of all FDA Regional Food Specialists.

1975 to 1994

Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Office of Food Protection and Consumer Health Services

Director, Division of Food Protection

She is the supervisor for the state retail/food service and food processing food safety inspection and enforcement programs. She is experienced in civil action taken in accordance with state laws to achieve compliance with regulations when necessary. She is a Certified Food Rating Officer, by the FDA, in retail and food service inspection activities. She evaluates local agency food safety programs, and trains and standardizes food sanitarians. She developed and implemented training courses for sanitarians in food science basics needed to understand and use the concepts of the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point approach to food safety.

1968 to 1975

Anne Arundel County Department of Health

Division of Environmental Health

Environmental Sanitarian

She is the Sanitarian for the City of Annapolis and conducted food and housing inspections.She reported directly to the mayor's office and the county Health Officer. She conducted environmental inspection and sampling programs, including those for water supply, food inspections, on-site sewage disposal systems, soil percolation tests, housing, swimming waters, and shellfish harvesting areas.

• She evaluated the sanitation conditions of a food storage warehouse for a client who received damaged food goods.
• She has inspected thousands of restaurants and grocery stores as a government inspector to determine compliance with food safety regulations.
• She has conducted numerous time-temperature studies of food in restaurants, grocery stores and hoispitals to develop an exposure profile of menu items as part of determining food safety practices.
• She has researched state laws and regulations for a legal firm as part of an on-going law suit against a grocery store.

• Food safety expert for consulting on In re Russell Anderson.
• U.s. department of food and drug administration food inspector expert for consulting on Need U.S. Food and Drug Administration Food Safety Inspection.
• Expert in sanitation for consulting on compliance with Philadelphia restaurant health code.
• Botulism expert needed for consulting on Botulism from canned food product.
• Food safety expert for litigation involving contaminated cheese(foreign substance.)
• Food poisoning expert witness for consulting on E. Coli and food poisoning case.