Jorge Hernandez
Jorge is responsible for setting the food safety, quality and supplier sustainability vision and standards for the company’s distribution centers, food processing facilities, logistics unit and private label products. Jorge is also responsible for the organization’s compliance with all regulatory standards for food safety.
Prior to joining US Foods in 2004, he was Vice President, Food Safety and Risk Management for the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation. In this role, he led the association’s food safety training and education efforts for the foodservice industry, including the ServSafe program. At the same time, Jorge served as Food Safety Vice President for the International Food Safety Council.
Previously, Jorge worked for the Illinois Department of Public Health, Division of Food, Drugs and Dairies, where he was responsible for training food safety inspectors and standardizing inspections, as well as writing, interpreting and implementing the food code statewide.Jorge is a sanitarian, a past FDA standardization officer and serves as a board member of Global G.A.P., the Food Safety 22000 Certification Board, Produce Marketing Association’s Science & Technology Committee and the Produce Traceability Initiative. He is also a member of the NRA’s Quality Assurance Executives Study Group, the Global Food Safety Initiative’s Technical Committee, the American National Standards Institute Accreditation Committee, the GS1 Food Safety Workgroup and the Conference for Food Protection. Jorge also served as a scientific member of the National Egg Board’s Food Safety Advisory Panel and the International HACCP Alliance.
Jorge graduated from Rockford College in Illinois with degrees in chemistry and biology. He also holds a degree in French culture from La Université de la Sorbonne in Paris, France, and a degree in microbiology from the Centro de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos Especialidades Medico-Biológicas in México City, México.
Scott McIntire
Mr. MacIntire currently serves as the Director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Chicago District Office. This district office is responsible for conducting investigations on over 6,000 registered firms in the state of Illinois and screening over 500,000 shipments into the Port of Chicago. Mr. MacIntire supervises the investigations and compliance branches focusing on public health protection and FDA enforcement of the law. He currently serves as the chair of the Center for Veterinary Medicine Field Committee. Prior to joining FDA in 1990, Mr. MacIntire worked for the Virginia Department of Health and the Virginia Department of Agriculture. He graduated from East Tennessee State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Health in 1982.
Joseph Rajkovacz
Joseph Rajkovacz
Mr. Rajkovacz has a unique perspective on food defense in transportation from spending 29 years as a driver hauling dry and perishable foods throughout the U.S. Since retiring from active trucking in 2006, Mr. Rajkovacz has been employed by trade associations representing the views of small-business trucking on government policy affecting their businesses.
He has testified before the FDA on food safety issues, been a speaker at various conferences on food defense, worked with the University of Tennessee developing a DHS sponsored food defense training program, and helped develop the TSA sponsored First Observer food defense training module for transportation workers.
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