An experienced Food Safety and Quality Assurance professional with over 25 years’ experience in the food industry, Angela started her career at JM Schneider’s working in the chemistry lab and then moved to Campbell’s Soup where she became the Plant Microbiologist. The last 19 years she has spent her time at Piller’s Fine Foods in Waterloo Ontario. She joined as a QA/ Lab Technician, was promoted to a QA Manager, and most recently to her current position as Director of Food Safety and Quality Assurance where she oversees two GFSI / HACCP Certified manufacturing facilities and the distribution warehouse. Angela proudly volunteers with the Ontario Food Protection Association’s Board of Directors since 2015 and is currently the Past President.  She recently became a volunteer member of Conestoga Colleges IFPT Program Advisory Committee where she continues to share her knowledge and experience in food safety and quality. Angela graduated from Seneca College’s Biotechnology Program and she completed further studies at the University of Guelph Food Science Division. She is a proud graduate of Dale Carnegie’s Organizational Leadership program certified by The University of Central Missouri and received the NSF International 2017 Food Safety Recognition Award for Leadership.

Since my graduation from the University of Manitoba in Food Science and Microbiology, over the past 25 years, I have worked in successive roles within the Canadian Food Industry (FSQA, manufacturing, sanitation, retail food and foodservice).

I joined Maple Leaf Foods in Sept. 2006 in a Corporate food safety and quality role, this was after the Schneider’s and Maple Leaf merger and only 18 months afterwards I was one of the many MLF personnel stationed on ground-zero at Bartor Road to be on the front line working with CFIA staff assigned to the crisis. Looking back, this became the pivot of my regulatory career.

In my current role as Director - Regulatory Management I support the MLF teams with regulatory interpretation services (day to day & strategic) and work with regional CFIA Inspectorate to enable commercial and consistent decision making (with enforcement when applicable). Via MLF industry association membership and directly with regional CFIA Inspectorate officials, I share industry knowledge / best practices and escalate issues to solve the industry’s common objectives.

I represent MLF on various industry committees/associations: Canadian Meat Council, Import-Export Canada, Agri Sub-Committee on Food Safety for the Pork Value Roundtable.