Food Safety Regulatory Compliance

Preston Blevins is a practitioner, consultant, and project manager with a combined experience of over forty years. He has certifications from APICS, the respected supply-chain and operations management association, as a Certified Fellow Production and Inventory Management (CFPIM), Certified in Integrated Resource Management (CIRM), and Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP). During his career, he has provided guidance to manufacturers on leveraging information technology to improve productivity, reduce inventory investment, and get in alignment with customer needs. Another career thread is workforce development, and a commitment to the Lean Management System. Preston lived and worked seven years in offshore assignments in the UK, Scandinavia, and Europe. In addition to those offshore assignments, he has collaborated extensively with co-workers in Japan, the People‘s Republic of China, and India.He has managed major multi-year projects such as: new business unit start-up, business unit turn-around, global account management, consulting practice start-up, new product launch, ERP implementations, and Y2K.One of the industries he specialized in serving are those producing complex, highly engineered devices that require both extensive pre-manufacturing, and post-production engineering services.In the last decade, he has focused on organizations that manufacture recipe/formula-based products such as food, nutritional supplements, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and specialty chemicals. All of these industries are working with challenging regulatory compliance requirements, ever increasing global competition, and environmental sustainability requirements.Preston has authored over thirty professional association conference white papers, numerous magazine articles, and authored a book chapter for a best practices compilation for the cosmetics industry. Topics covered include advanced

"The author provides practical how-to advice that will assist both large and small manufacturers implement best practices to achieve data accuracy, process simplification, process reliability, workforce development, food safety, regulatory compliance, superior inventory management, and excellence in operations and supply-chain management. He addresses in practical terms the emerging "must do" requirement of implementing "sustainability." The book is a primer on how to do the right thing and profit from it." -Keith W. Gates, in the Journal of Aquatic Food Product Technology

• Intro: Executive Overview. Food & Nutraceuticals Industry Overview. Regulatory Compliance Overview. Other Compelling Requirements and Considerations. The Top Ten Issues in Food Manufacturing. Implied Requirements. Process: Batch Enterprise Resource Planning. How to Organize the Workplace: Lean Thinking. Data, Compliance, Visibility. Looking Outside the Factory: Supply Chain Management. Effective Energy and Water Usage Management: The New Business Imperative.