The R&D and quality assurance manager of a bakery facility formulates and industrializes new recipes, improves existing ones, selects raw materials and alternative suppliers, evaluates the applicability of new technologies, ensures compliance with current regulations, maintains quality and voluntary certification systems, manages any non-compliance, and coordinates personnel and other resources. This requires solid technical and legal expertise, attention to detail, interpersonal skills, and, above all, a strong passion for the work at hand. We spoke with Dr. Daniela Mirabello , quality assurance and research and development manager at Galup , a Piedmont-based company known by consumers primarily for its excellent holiday desserts.
I'm an agronomist specializing in food quality. I graduated in Agricultural Sciences with a major in Agroengineering from the University of Palermo, and then specialized in Entrepreneurship and Quality of the Agri-food System.
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In 2015, I attended a Master's Degree in Advanced Training for Lead Auditors at the CSQA certification body, acquiring the tools relating to the certifications most requested by food companies on Quality Management Systems : BRC, IFS, ISO 9001 and ISO 22000. These standards define the voluntary requirements that companies decide to comply with to obtain certification.
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Source: Food Machinery