Food Processing Expert Witnesses
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Food processing expert witness candidates typically have extensive experience in food science, food engineering, FDA regulations, food manufacturing, and/or food safety. A food processing expert witness should feel comfortable explaining regulations, processes, and procedures to a judge and jury. The chosen expert could be a member of an industry organization such as the Food Processing Suppliers Association (FPSA), the Food and Beverage Technology Association (IFBTA), or the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT).
There are three main levels of food processing: primary food processing, secondary food processing, and tertiary food processing. Primary food processing takes raw agricultural products (e.g., livestock, wheat) and creates products that can be eaten. This category includes many preparation methods and quality assurance steps, and includes processes such as shelling nuts to deboning meat to canning food. Secondary food processing covers the creation of a food product from ready-to use ingredients, for example the baking of bread. Tertiary food processing is commercial production of food (e.g., ready-to-eat or heat-and-serve foods). All food processing is regulated by the FDA, and a food processing expert witness should be familiar with the FDA guidelines and regulations.
Litigation support by an expert in food processing can involve intellectual property matters such as a patent litigation or a trade secret dispute. A food processing scientist might also provide testimony in matters involving food safety, contract issues, or supply chain issues. Expert witness service by a food processing specialist could include product analysis, expert report, expert opinion, deposition, and courtroom testimony. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request a subject matter expert with prior testimony experience. In addition, an attorney may seek a food science expert for pre-litigation consultant work.
Cahn has performed many searches for food processing experts, providing candidates for each case to the specifications provided by the law firm client. Whether the case involves food safety standards, contamination, organic food, food packaging, foodborne illness, food manufacturing, factory sanitation, or food supply chain, Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for an expert witness around quickly. The firm has an earned reputation for providing candidates with the right balance of expertise and testimony experience for each unique project.
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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Food Processing experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Food Processing landscape.
Expert Witness #258485
This expert is primarily a food safety expert and as such has become familiar with regulatory requirements for clean and sterile laboratories and manufacturing/processing facilities. One of this expert's core expertise areas is the effectiveness of cleaning and sanitation programs
Start Food Processing Expert SearchExpert Witness #209780
This food safety and food handling expert has an extensive background in food safety and food handling, taught food safety for over 20 years, and has over 40 years of experience in restaurants, health care, food processing, casinos, and the hospitality industry.
This expert provides litigation support and expert witness services involving food safety and HACCP, foodborne illness, and quality assurance in restaurants, country clubs, schools, supermarkets, and food manufacturers. This expert specializes in preventing restaurant accidents, incident investigations, ADA etiquette, and chemical safety.
Start Food Processing Expert SearchExpert Witness #256620
This food packaging and safety expert holds a Ph.D. in Food Science and an M.Sc. in Packaging Science from well-regarded universities and is a faculty member in a university food packaging department. This expert has worked as a food scientist for a federal agriculture agency in food processing and packaging and then continued in academia.
This expert has over 10 years of experience serving as an expert witness on issues related to food packaging and processing, food safety, shelf life, and related topics. Academic and professional training has included study of food science, environmental toxicology, classes of food toxins, and how food toxins affect the human body.
This expert has worked in food packaging and labeling divisions for a federal food and drug regulator, handling assignments involving food contact materials, food safety, product labeling, and misbranding. This expert teaches courses in food regulations and food packaging, including topics such as labeling, additives, label claims, food contact materials, regulatory petitions, consumer protection regulation, food packaging laws and regulations, material science, and product shelf life.
Research activities in this expert's laboratory include the development and characterization of various types of packaging polymeric materials, including antimicrobial, antioxidant, and corrosion-resistant coatings for plastic and metal packages. Current research includes antimicrobial coatings for surfaces such as food preparation tables, countertops, door handles, and computer keyboards.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Food Processing Expert SearchExpert Witness #271164
This food safety and food handling expert holds a Ph.D. and has been a research scientist and director in the food safety field for over 55 years, with knowledge of foodborne disease in government, academic, and industry positions.
This expert is knowledgeable about foodborne diseases that occur in food processing and foodservice facilities. Food processing and foodservice facilities should have a HACCP plan that determines the risks of foodborne illness to customers for each item processed, prepared, or shipped, and when hazards are detected, appropriate mitigation strategies should be introduced. Key areas include preventing, eliminating, or reducing risks through good hygienic practices.
This expert has experience as an expert witness and litigation consultant in matters involving foodborne illness, contamination, and food safety issues, including matters involving pathogens, food allergens, foreign objects, heavy metals, and extraneous matter in food products.
Start Food Processing Expert SearchExpert Witness #272171
This food safety and contamination expert has over 35 years' experience in professional food safety microbiology and holds a B.Sc. in Bacteriology and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Food Science with a focus on microbiological safety, all from a well-regarded public university. This expert subsequently spent roughly a decade involved in microbiological troubleshooting in over 400 factories while serving as a laboratory manager at a variety of laboratory locations for a food safety laboratory group.
This expert later served as an Assistant Professor with a university center for food safety and department of food science. This expert remains an Adjunct Assistant Professor with a university center for food safety and department of food science, and is also Adjunct Faculty with a university national center focused on food safety and toxicology. This expert has published articles on a wide variety of food microbiology topics, designed challenge studies, CCP validation, growth studies, and shelf-life studies, developed on-site private and off-site public workshops and lectures, and provided training in food safety microbiology, quality assurance, and quality control.
Over the past 35 years, this expert has investigated many instances of Listeria contamination during hundreds of food processing facility visits, mostly in the context of production facilities and some in the food service area. This expert has also written extensively on Listeria control and testing.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Food Processing Expert SearchExpert Witness #273271
This food industry expert has experience across a wide range of food processing, food manufacturing, and co-packer specifications and operations, including meat processing.
This expert has extensive experience in labeling and trademarks related to product specifications.
Start Food Processing Expert SearchExpert Witness #286267
This food processing and equipment design expert holds a B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering and is a licensed professional engineer (P.E.) and HACCP Instructor. This expert is responsible for the management and expansion of food process engineering extension programs related to process optimization and facility design.
This expert has experience in cheese manufacturing, food production startups and shutdowns, water purification and handling, and cleaning and maintenance of facilities. This expert is also an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Food Processing Expert SearchExpert Witness #286663
This food processing expert has over 40 years of experience in the food industry, specializing in creating and supporting food safety and quality programs. This expert began a career in the meat industry producing products such as bologna, ham, sandwich meat, hamburger patties, and hotdogs, and has experience as an expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Food Processing Expert SearchExpert Witness #294250
This food science expert holds a Ph.D. and is a Certified Food Scientist/Nutritionist and Fellow of a prominent food technology institute, with over 30 years of experience in rapid development and commercialization of new products and technologies across sectors including food, ingredients, nutraceuticals, dietary supplements, Clean Label, water, and biowaste. This expert has proven expertise in patent development, novel ingredient validation, clinical and product safety evaluation, labeling claims, food processing, upcycling biowaste, and water conservation. This expert has extensive experience in technical communications with regulatory bodies, international trade commissions, and contract research organizations covering compliance, HACCP, quality audits, due diligence, and risk assessments.
This expert is a senior lecturer in a master's-level Food Safety Regulation program at a prestigious university, serves on a faculty advisory board at a well-regarded university, and is a trustee at a health sciences university. This expert teaches courses on regulation of good food production practices, food safety audits and surveillance, and food labeling and packaging regulations, and has developed coursework on regulation of dietary supplements.
This expert assists food and allied industries with expert witness research and testimonial services, competitive intelligence, regulatory compliance, risk-managed new product and technology development, and commercialization through science-based marketing strategies. This expert has advanced degrees in food chemistry, food processing technology, and food safety regulation, with demonstrated knowledge of labeling regulations, food product testing, and label claim substantiation for food and dietary supplements. This expert also has experience as an independent technical advisor on scientific and regulatory affairs for professional associations and industry groups domestically and internationally.
This expert has proven knowledge of food science, food product testing, nutrition and supplement facts label development, and nutrition and health claim substantiation. This expert has served as a consulting expert witness and has been deposed and testified as an expert in court for over 20 years. This expert's testifying experience is supported by the ability to research and translate complicated scientific and analytical matters into clear explanations for audiences with a wide range of educational and scientific backgrounds.
Start Food Processing Expert SearchExpert Witness #304459
This dairy processing expert holds a PhD in food science from a prestigious university and is a retired university professor in food science. This expert currently runs a consultancy that provides assistance in the development, implementation, and improvement of manufacturing, quality, and safety programs for dairy processors and affiliates in the dairy food value chain.
This expert has over 30 years of experience in dairy processing, specifically in butter, cheese, and food safety. This expert's research focused on developing food safety and quality tools for small-scale cheesemakers.
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