Karin Blacow

Commercial Food Sanitation
Amsterdam Netherlands

Biographical Sketch: Karin’s academic background is in mechanical engineering. Prior to joining Commercial Food Sanitation, LLC, in 2012 as a Food Safety Specialist, Karin spent 12 years working with food manufacturers at Intralox. She has extensive knowledge of the production processes, as well as hygiene and sanitation challenges, in many food segments. Her technical background, combined with her food industry application knowledge and in-field experience working with food processors, affords her a unique perspective when helping customers tackle sanitation challenges. Karin has developed a passion to educate and support food processors in making a positive change in their food safety culture and working on continuous improvement projects. Karin is bilingual in Dutch and English and has a good understanding of the German language. She supports customers throughout the EMEA region in a variety of areas, including cleaning sequencing, sanitation program analysis for continuous improvement, equipment design reviews, hygienic design improvements, development of SSOPs and associated documentation, and related education and training. Karin is an active member of the European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group (EHEDG), participating in several guideline sub-groups. Karin is a columnist for Food Processing Vakblad.

Papers:
Technologies and Associated Challenges Related to Cleaning and Disinfection in Dry Environments