Chair, Food Ingredients Expert Committee
Career Highlights:
- DeVries & Associates: Owner, CEO, and Consultant
- Medallion Laboratories Division of General Mills Inc.: Senior Technical Manager, Senior Principal Scientist,
- Satellite Industries: Technical Services Supervisor
- Industrial Chemical and Equipment Co.: Primary Analyst
Awards, Recognition, Admissions:
- AOAC International
- AOACI Harvey W. Wiley Award
- American Association of Cereal Chemists Edith A. Christenson award
A Few Favorite Professional Achievements:
- Chair, USP Expert Committee, Food Ingredients
- Chair, USP Expert Panel, Food Ingredients Intentional Adulterants
- Developed and promoted analytical methodology to reduce flavor transfer from food packaging to contents. The method “changed the industry” and became the ASTM standard for such package testing.
- Chair, International Life Sciences Institute North American Division Technical Committee on Carbohydrates for 18 years
- Substantive work in defining and analyzing dietary fiber