Debby Newslow, President

Debby, a native of Needham, Massachusetts, is President of D. L. Newslow & Associates, Inc. located in Orlando, Florida. Debby is the author of The ISO 9000 Quality System: Applications in Food and Technology released by John Wiley & Sons Publishing in February 2001. Debby is also the author of a HACCP-based chapter included in the 2003 John Wiley & Sons release of the Food Safety Compendium.

After earning a Food Science & Technology degree from the University of Florida, her career began as a Quality Control Manager with T.G. Lee Foods, a division of Dean Foods. In 1985, Debby joined The Coca-Cola Company in its Minute Maid Division (CCF) as a Research & Development Food Scientist.

In 1987, Debby joined the Quality Assurance group as a Corporate Auditor and Project Specialist, where she was instrumental in developing a GMP audit program, creation of a company standard Quality Assurance Manual, and assisting with ISO 9002, 1994 certification of three different process operations.

In 1995, Debby joined Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance as a certified Quality Assurance Lead Auditor. Debby has been involved with the ISO 9000 certification activities of more than 200 different companies, including the following certified companies: M & M Mars, Ethel M. Chocolate, Key Ingredients, Charleston Packaging, New Zealand Milk, Nielsen-Massey Vanillas, Domino Sugar, Uncle Ben's Rice, Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, AGA Gases, Barton Solvents, Hiram Walker, Mead Johnson, Campbell's Soup, Tropicana, Reckitt Benckiser, Louis Dreyfus Corporation, Wixon Fontarome, Consolidated Paper, Pepperidge Farm Inc., Southern Gardens Citrus, Bacardi, Minute Maid, Cargill, and Devro-Teepak.

Currently Debby subcontracts with LRQA as an ISO 9001 lead auditor and also with NSF and SGS performing ISO 9001, HACCP and ISO 22000 lead audits. Debby's main interests is assisting food, chemical, and various other industries with their quality system development and maintenance activities, which include ISO 9000 compliance, HACCP, GMP, Food Hygiene, HACCP Prerequisite Programs, Crisis Management, and other related systems and processes. When not assisting companies on their development and maintenance activities, Debby is teaching workshops both public and company based on these topics.

Debby has published numerous articles in such trade journals as Cultured Dairy Products Journal; Dairy, Food, and Environmental Sanitation; and Food Quality related to sanitation, GMP, HACCP, and ISO. She has presented many of these same topics for meetings and short courses sponsored by such organizations as University of Florida, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Citrus Engineers, Agricultural Consultants, Food Safety Summit, Food Quality, and the American Spice Trade Association.

Debby has served on the Executive Board of Florida IFT; and currently on the Editorial Board of the Food Protection. She previously served on the Executive Boards of the "Citrus Division" and "Quality Assurance Division" of IFT and Cultured Dairy Products Association and was a member of the development team for the ASQ-HACCP certification exam.

Debby is an IRCA Certified Quality Assurance Lead Assessor, an American Society of Quality (ASQ) Certified Quality Auditor, Certified HACCP Auditor, Certified Quality Manager, and ISO 22000 Auditor/SQL Expert (pending). She is active in IFT, FLA IFT, International Association for Food Protection, and the American Society for Quality (ASQ).