Food Safety Support: Kate Pusey

Kate Pusey

Kate Pusey	Food Safety Consultant
e-mail:	katepusey@foodsafetysupport.co.uk
Mobile:	07934536295
Address:	14 The Weaving Shed, Wharf Street, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 2JR.

My Notes

After spending over 15 years working in the food manufacturing industry and achieving the top quality award from Britvic for our factory in Huddersfield I decided to have a change of life style. Our factory was a new aquisition by Britvic and small compared to their other 6 sites, however we were all incredibly proud to win the overall factory quality award in our first year in the competition in 2006. As Quality Manager for the factory it was a high point for me and a perfect time to move on.

I decided to do some volunteering and so my husband and I trained to teach English abroad and set off to Sri Lanka to the Tsunami affected coast. Here we stayed for 3 months and spent mornings on a building site constructing new homes and the afternoons teaching local children and their mothers English. A truely rewarding trip.

I have now decided to come back to my initial passion of food safety and quality and have set up my own consultancy business to offer my services to the industry.

I hope to help new and established businesses benefit from my technical expertise to enable them to have confidence in their product and their facility by improving levels of food safety, hygiene and quality.

Benefits of My Services

High level of technical expertise
Quick reponse time
On site when needed
At the end of a phone
Professional service
Experienced from within food manufacturing
Understand the day to day running of a busy food factory
Ensure compliance with legislation
Increase confidence in products
Create higher food safety standards
Ensure no consumer is harmed from your products
Prevent costly recalls
Better trained staff
Increased staff moral
Improved staff retention
Ensure achieve certification
Get better customers
Increase sales
Keep EHO happy
Flexible, friendly service

Personal Profile

A professional food microbiologist with a wide range of experience working in quality and technical functions within the food manufacturing industry for over 15 years.

Specialising in formulating and implementing quality management systems with a determination to improving quality standards.

A highly competent auditor with a natural ability for problem solving and creating easily implemented action plans. Skilled in all aspects of food legislation especially relating to the soft drinks industry ensuring that food businesses can apply a sound due diligence defence if needed.

My experience from within the food manufacturing industry gives me as a consultant valuable insight into the problems and restrictions of the implementation of a manageable quality system. I can offer solutions that I have direct experience of, not just an academic or theoretical knowledge.

Key Technical Skills

Hygiene / HACCP Auditor
Implementation and maintenance of CLAS Laboratory accreditation
Pre - BRC (British Retail Consortium) Audits
Verification / Validation of HACCP Plans
Training staff in Hygiene and HACCP
Writing Quality Manuals, Haccp Plans
Liaison with EHO's, customers and consumer complaint issues
Implementation of an integrated Quality Assurance System
Food legislation compliance
Due diligence defence
Microbiological testing schedules
Supplier approval
Legislation for Spring and Mineral Water
Spring / Mineral water production / borehole management
Interpretation of microbiological results

Qualifications

1990	BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences. Specialist subject: Microbiology
1993	RIPHH Certificate in Food Hygiene and the Handling of Food
1997	LRQA Internal Quality Auditor
1998	Post Graduate Certificate in Food and Grocery Industry Management

Further Training

1992	LFRA - Chilled Food Safety
1993	LFRA - Microbiological Risks and the Assurance of Food Safety
1993	LFRA - A practical approach to HACCP
1993	Grand Met - HACCP Trainign Program
1993	Food Dialog - BSDA Train the Trainer - Applied Food Hygiene and Training Skills
1994	LFRA - HACCP Tools and Auditing
1997	M+S - Hygiene course for food Suppliers
2007	TEFL - Teach English as a foriegn language

Employment History

2000 - 2006	Britvic Soft Drinks (previously Ben Shaws Soft Drinks). Technical Manager / Qualty Manager.
1991 - 2000	Princes Soft Drinks (previously Waterford Juices). Quality Manager / Company Microbiologist

Please contact me to arrange a consultantion. I can tailor my services to meet your specific needs.