Dan Meeks

Senior Manager - Quality, Compliance, & Safety at Paris Group

Bio Senior Manager of Quality, Compliance & Safety at a Kansas City specialty foods distributor and coffee roaster, responsible for food safety, regulatory compliance, supplier quality, and EHS across a coffee roasting plant and a large warehouse operation. I manage SQF certification and a full calendar of annual audits (Organic, Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, Kosher), lead quality for a national retailer's private label coffee program, and support co-pack and toll roasting customers. Licensed Q Arabica Grader, SQF Practitioner, FSMA PCQI, HACCP certified, and Food Defense trained. I can speak to how mid-sized food companies meet retailer, regulatory, and certification requirements, and to the operational realities of specialty coffee from green sourcing to finished product. Topics I can consult on SQF and GFSI certification: audit preparation, costs, common nonconformances, Edition 10 changes FSMA compliance: Preventive Controls, food defense, supplier verification Retailer and private label quality requirements for large club and grocery retailers Supplier quality management and approval programs Sustainability certifications: Organic, Fair Trade USA, Rainforest Alliance, incl…