Partners in Food Safety: How Collaborating with Health Inspectors leads to Optimal Results. Episode 13

Tonya has nearly 40 years of experience in Food Safety. She began her career in regulatory roles at local and state levels with Agriculture and Public Health, later moving into consulting for Education and Industry over the last 15 years. Her work has focused on regulation creation, interpretation, and application, most recently verifying FDA Food Code references for the industry.

She has been active in the Conference for Food Protection and has held memberships with the International Association of Food Protection and the National Environmental Health Association. Tonya is a past president of both the Georgia Association of Food Protection and the Georgia Environmental Health Association. She became a registered Sanitarian early in her career and has maintained registration with NEHA and GEHA, along with FDA standardization every three years.

Though retired from the state of Georgia for ten years, she continues to assist the industry with food safety during innovations, crises, and evolving code requirements. Tonya has a comprehensive knowledge of FDA and Canadian Food Codes, as well as various local US jurisdiction codes.