Rome, Latium, Italy
Curious, enthusiastic, love challenges and overcoming problems. I have always pursued my career in food sector but different work experiences in different countries allow me to find my real passion - World Food Security especially Food Safety and Nutrition. With experience in both private sector and non-profit organisation relating to food. Specialties: Food Security, Food Safety and Product Development Research gate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rachel_Cheng3
Past project included valuation of Food Safety practices in Mali; a publication is attached for this work. Worked on researches for Food Safety projects such as a manual guide to food safety for restaurants in aspects of endocrine disruptors for WASOT; food safety in bioactive food ingredients and traditional herbal remedies.
https://www.moloko-project.eu/partners/ • Research on milk and milk products toxicants contaminations and related EU and Italian legislations on Dairy, food, work and environment management in terms of food industry. • Research on toxicant detections (such as heavy metals, pesticides, natural toxins etc.) in milk and dairy products. • Work on the evaluation of project impact on the dairy businesses.
- Responsible for new innovations on shelf-stable Italian cooking sauces and condiments. - Managing different projects in aspects of radical innovation in product design, quality, safety and manufacturing processes, as well as incremental product innovations through changes in processes and ingredients in both pilot plant and factories.
I researched on part of this project: Implementation of food safety practices in Mali, Mauritania and Cameroon. My main research was in Mali: The study of empowerment of farmers associations for the implementation and transfer of food safety practices and regulations in Mali aiming to identify the critical issues of the project in order to minimize them and allow proper implementation of food safety system in the field especially in milk sector.
- Worked on brands like Jelly Babies, Maynard Wine Gums, Bassetts Allsorts Liquorice, The Natural Confectionary Company (TNCC), Trebor etc. - Managed different projects in aspects of radical innovation in product design, quality, safety and manufacturing processes, as well as incremental product innovations through changes in processes and ingredients in both pilot plant and factories. - Cooperated with Marketing/Commercial team, Purchasing Buying Service and Factory Manufacturing as well as ingredient suppliers to launch new products on schedule.