Anupriya Chetal-Mendhe Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Responsible for Food Safety and Quality for all the sweet goods manufacturing facilities for the company
• Managing the Food safety and Quality team of 50+ team members
• Set Policy, procedures, reporting and evaluation systems in place that support the company’s strategic plan as related to Food Safety
• Lead both proactive and reactive solutions to the Food Quality programs
• Regularly evaluate and report on progress, issues, barriers, successes, and recommendations using approved evaluation metrics, systems and documents
• Lead Crisis Management situations related to food recalls, communicable diseases, Health Department, public relations together with other and representatives

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Managing the quality team of more than 20 employees across two production sites, including customer and Vendor management
• Responsible for Food Safety and Quality for two production facilities, leading the QA customer management team and the QA Supplier approval and management team.
• Work with all levels of management in cross functional teams in providing expertise, technical support, recommendations and leadership as it pertains to QA and Food Safety activities.
• Primary QA contact for all customers of the organization related to product specifications, customer queries and complaints.
• Lead the BRCGS Audits for two manufacturing sites, and customer audits for all sites in the organization
• Lead HACCP, GMP and BRC program including updates, maintenance, verifications, and validation as required.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Manage QA techs for all shifts ensuring the tasks are completed consistently and efficiently
• Work with different teams including production to provide expertise, guidance and leadership related to all QA activities
• Conduct risk assessment for all quality non-conformities in the plant and take all necessary actions to mitigate the risk and follow corrective actions in a timely manner
• Conduct root cause analysis for all critical non conformities
• Execute various initiatives to improve quality and food safety within the plant like color coding of utensils, introducing various metal detectable tools to be used in the plant
• Lead all HACCP, GMP and BRC updates and reviews in a timely fashion to ensure the plant is functioning on high standards and maintaining the food safety and quality

Toronto, Canada Area

• Assessed and communicated to all new and existing suppliers of ingredients, packaging and service providers on food safety and quality requirements as per company's food safety program
• Assessed all supplier paperwork to validate and minimize risk with new materials to be used in the facilities
• Upload all supplier information and paperwork to SAP and company portal, conduct timely reviews/ approvals of suppliers and initiate timely follow up for expired supplier documents
• Ensure all documents are up to date and in compliance to BRC requirements, food safety program to manage document control effectively
• Participate in cross-functional teams in the development of new supplier approval, communicate new approvals and any changes to all concerned departments in a timely manner
• Assist the Quality assurance department in all third-party Audits (BRC, RSPO etc) and internal audits

North York, Ontario, Canada

• Perform daily process checks for all stages of production, sanitation including mixing procedures, depositing and finished good weight checks, metal detection, label and code verification, GMPs and general food safety.
• Conduct hold procedures for suspected products and finished goods and investigate and evaluate further, perform root cause analysis for the supervisor to reach a decision for the hold
• Document all the QA activities, results of inspection and hold procedures accurately and timely
• Conduct trainings for new procedures, GMPs for the team members in production
• Collect and send samples for laboratory testing
• Participate in plant trials, collect samples and make documents such as VQS, OPLs for the production team

New Delhi Area, India

• Alpha test house is a recently established laboratory for food and water testing in Delhi. As a Senior Analyst, performed analytical tests on water and food samples for quality check on daily basis
• Conducted daily analysis on ICP-MS, GC-MS, HPLC, FTIR and AAS instruments for food and water samples for detection of metals, pesticides and other contaminants
• Performed all analytical test and sample preparation as per industry guidelines for clients to generate quality reports for their products
• Managed a team of four analysts in food and chemical department for daily allocation of samples and maintaining timely delivery of reports
• Performed successful audits conducted by regulatory bodies as head of instrumentation laboratory by demonstrating of accuracy of instruments, sample testing on instruments and excellent record keeping for the.
• Improved on the existing SOPs and Quality Manual by updating to the new food safety rules and addition of new instruments and methods and maintained them as per the industry guidelines

New Delhi Area, India

• Worked on a project to develop cool storage structures for farmers to improve the storage life of perishable produce.
• The project was funded through GCFSI grant, USA (Global center for food system innovation) and collaborated with the Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA.
• The project aimed at developing a storage structure to be installed in farms that will keep the fresh produce cooler than ambient temperature thereby increasing its shelf life by 15-20 days
• Tasks included building small-scale structure of different materials, designing the instrumentation for recording temperatures of each structure, conducting experiments to vary the temperature inside the structures and.
• Created three models of the storage structures and compared them by temperature; cost analysis; development and maintenance feasibility to select the final prototype given to the farmers
• Demonstrated all three units to farmers for feedback and modified the structures as per their requirements before the final delivery

Salinas, California Area

• Responsible for developing and verifying facility sanitation programs and practices, managing the daily food safety checks and inspections, collaborating with sales and marketing on providing verification of compliance.
• Part of the 5 member project team working to replace HACCP (Hazard analysis and critical control plan) with HARPC (Hazard and risk analysis and preventive control plan) for the company. This project required.
• Successfully handled a FDA audit for the cooling plant of the company, with 100% compliance with all food safety standards. The audit included a walk through the cooling facility & a check on the food safety records.
• Active member of the Leafy green management association that included attending bi weekly meetings and monthly forums.
• Worked on the project by the California department of public health (CDPH) and Leafy green Management association on detection of cadmium levels in the soil and its uptake by the leafy vegetables. This project included.
• Studied and researched about the new FSMA (food safety marketing association) rules for produce safety. Worked on incorporating these rules in the HARPC plan developed for the operations of the company.

Davis, CA

• Working on improving methods of standardization of color measurements of processed tomato
• Analyzing the scattering and absorption properties for different concentrations of tomato paste.
• Developing a shelf stable reference standard material for use in color hitch standardization.
• Duties include developing an experimental setup to measure the optical properties of tomato using a hyperspectral camera and white light source, calibrate the instruments, study the scattering and absorption trends in.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Worked on Exploration Habitat Academic Challenge Program (XHAB), NASA (Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX)The Project involved designing and delivering a plant production monitoring and control system for NASA’s Habitat Demonstration Unit that will be used to grow plants in the spaceship for missions to mars.Developed a Labview software to connect a group.

Columbus, Ohio

• Proctor Exams for Students with Disabilities.
• Responsible for scheduling exams, monitoring the exams in the office, delivering the exams back to the professors

Columbus, Ohio Area

• The experiment involved crossing 3 different lines of fruit flies with a particular line with RNAi to study the effects of this gene in the cross
• Was responsible for making the food of flies, exchanging the stock, separating virgin flies from the rest, etc.

New Delhi Area, India

• Summer internship in National Research Center on Plant Biotechnology
• Worked on Micro propagation of chrysanthemums and tomatoes for one month

Master'S Degree, Biological/Biosystems Engineering

Activities and Societies: Treasurer for Indian Graduate Student Association. Organized various cultural events in collaboration with other.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biotechnology

Bachelor'S Degree, Biological/Biosystems Engineering

Activities and Societies: Women in Engineering, Indian Student AssociationIn the Dean’s List for four quarters.

Education record