Tanimura & Antle announced that Matthew Burke has joined its team as director of food safety & quality assurance. Burke’s primary focus will be to bring a customer perspective to the company’s quality and food safety assurance programs to ensure it continues to meet industry and customer compliance standards. Burke joins the company’s quality and food safety team led by Gurmail Mudahar, Ph.D. and vice-president of research & development and food safety.
"Our mission continues to focus on quality, service and innovation," said Scott Grabau, president & CEO of Tanimura & Antle. "Innovation never stops. We need to continually add focus and innovative resources to ensure we can execute above and beyond. A heightened focus on quality and food safety helps us further execute our mission."
Prior to joining Tanimura & Antle, Burke served as the food safety & quality assurance lead for Sysco Corporation for 10 years where he helped develop and execute its food safety and quality program for fresh produce in North America. Prior to Sysco, Burke was a food safety auditor for NSF Agriculture where he audited a variety of fresh produce operations.
“I’m very excited for this new opportunity. Tanimura & Antle’s reputation speaks for itself, and this role enhances my ability to do what I am passionate about - bring safe, high-quality produce to families near and far,” said Burke. Burke will leverage his customer buy-side experience in his new role.
“Quality and food safety are foundational values at Tanimura & Antle that have remained a top priority since we were founded in 1982,” said Mudahar, Ph.D. “We take extra steps to ensure quality--everything from being involved in our own seed production, strategic high quality growing regions and hiring all our employees directly to ensure the right training. We are thrilled to have Matt join our team as the next step in ensuring our customer needs are being met and that we continue our longstanding legacy of premium quality produce.”
Burke also demonstrates his commitment to his profession by being involved in industry committees and trainings such as the Center for Produce Safety, various industry and regulatory working groups, food safety audit scheme development, NSF’s Train the Trainer HACCP certification and others.
“Growing and shipping quality fresh produce is of utmost importance to Tanimura & Antle,” said Grabau. “We pursue continual improvement and our food safety and quality programs are no exception. We’re grateful to add Matt and his skill set to our team and cannot wait to see what the future holds.”
For more information:
Ashley Pipkin
Tanimura & Antle
Tel: +1 (831) 455-3654
[email protected]
www.taproduce.com
