NMA Leader
Recieves AMI’s
Lyng Award
Longtime meat industry leader
Rosemary Mucklow, executive director
emeritus of the National Meat
Association (NMA), was presented with
the prestigious American Meat Institute
(AMI) Richard E. Lyng Award in recognition of her long and continued commitment
and dedication to
the meat
industry.
The
award
was presented by
AMI
President
and CEO Patrick Boyle to Mucklow at
the NMA Annual convention in
Monterey, CA, in February.
The Lyng Award is named after the
late Richard E. Lyng (1918-2003), former
President of the American Meat Institute
(1973-79) and Secretary of Agriculture
under President Ronald Reagan.
“Rosemary Mucklow has been a tireless advocate for the meat industry. In
her 46 years of industry service, she has
made remarkable contributions to our
industry and in turn to the American
public, which today enjoys a meat supply that is among the safest, most abundant and most affordable in the world,”
said Boyle.
From 1982 until 2007, Mucklow
served as the director of the National
Meat Association (NMA), a national
association representing meat packers,
processors, wholesalers, sausage makers
and related firms in the U.S. meat industry. Mucklow received the E. Floyd
Forbes award presented by the NMA in
1996 in recognition of her outstanding
service to the meat industry.
“Rosemary Mucklow’s long career of
service to the meat industry embodies
the same dedication to public service as
evidenced by Dick Lyng,” said Boyle.
“She is a very worthy recipient of this
award in Secretary Lyng’s name.”
PPeloapclee&s
Sarita Raengpradub, Ph.D., has
joined the Silliker Food
Science Center, South
Holland, IL, as a
Research Scientist
( www.silliker.com). A
recent graduate of
Cornell University, she Raengpradub
served as a doctoral research assistant
under preeminent food microbiologists
Dr. Kathryn Boor and Dr. Martin
Weidmann. Her major responsibilities
encompass microbial source tracking
research and program development.
Food Safety Net Services is proud
to announce the promotion of Sherri
Jenkins, M.S. to Vice President of
Auditing and Consulting Services
( www.food-safetynet.com). Sherri
joined FSNS in 2007 and has most
recently held the position of Director of
Auditing and Consulting Services.
Jarrod Miller, M.S. was also recently
promoted to Senior Auditing Specialist.
Jarrod joined FSNS in 2004 as an Audit
Specialist.
The Produce Marketing
Association (PMA) named Robert
Whitaker, Ph.D., one of the produce
industry’s most respected scientists, as
the association’s first chief scientific
officer ( www.pma.com). Whitaker will
direct the creation of PMA’s new science-based programs and services at
a time when food safety, traceability,
sustainability and other science-based
issues are taking immediacy in the produce industry. Whitaker comes to PMA
from NewStar Fresh Foods LLC of
Salinas, Calif., where he served as vice
president of the company’s product
development and innovation program.
He previously served as president of
NewStar’s value-added salad production company, MissionStar Processing
LLC, and held vice president positions
in charge of product development and
food safety, value-added opera-tions/research and development, and
product quality and development.
NSF International
has appointed Jennifer
Tong as Director of
NSF’s Restaurant Food
Safety Division
( www.nsf.org). In her new
Tong role, Tong is responsible
for the strategic development of the
NSF Dine Safer program, a certification
program that helps restaurants and
other retail foodservice establishments
improve the quality of their food while
enhancing their food safety efforts.
Before joining NSF, Tong served as a
Health and Safety Regulatory Affairs
Consultant for the National Restaurant
Association (NRA), advising the association on health and safety issues.
Online & Of Note
www.ars.usda.gov/naa/errc/mfsru/portal
A new Internet resource could be invaluable to food processors—especially, to smaller meat and poultry processing companies. The information it provides can answer food safety questions and help food processors make science-based decisions to
produce safe and wholesome products for consumers. Called
the Predictive Microbiology Information Portal (PMIP), it
offers information on research, regulations, and
resources related to Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat
foods. Soon it will be expanded to include other pathogen and food
combinations. A searchable database allows users to find information that can be
used to develop plans for HACCP inspection. Developed in collaboration with
Rutgers University and Decisionalysis Risk Consultants, Inc., of Ottawa, Ontario,
the portal includes a tutorial with instructions on using and interpreting predictive models.
