GFSF and NOAA Welcome Vietnamese Food Safety Delegation

Global Food Safety Forum is pleased to welcome a food safety delegation from Vietnam to their offices in Alexandria, where they met with representatives from NOAA to learn about the functions of that organization.  The delegation visit, March 18-25, 2017, is under sponsorship of the High Quality Vietnamese Goods Business Association.  Other meetings include CFSAN/FDA, APHIS, Hill Committees, and other international affairs agencies. 

GFSF Announces Vincent Paez is New Director

      Director of GFSF, Vincent Paez

GFSF is pleased to announce the appointment of Vincent Paez as Director of GFSF worldwide.  He is an analytical chemist with an MBA from the Anderson Graduate  School of Management, UCLA.  He previously has worked for Hewlett Packard/ Agilent Technologies where his responsibilities included serving as Asia Programs Manager; Director of Food Safety Business Development at Thermo Fisher Scientific; and since 2012, Senior Director of Food Safety, Environmental and Forensics Toxicology Testing Markets at SCIEX, responsible for bringing new mass spectrometry based solutions to these markets.

“Vincent has a longstanding relationship with GFSF, having represented Thermo Fisher Scientific and SCIEX as strategic partners.  His unique science based training and affiliations will add the dimension of food safety technology to GFSF’s mission in Asia.  Under Vince’s direction, we look forward to an exciting phase of GFSF’s work in China and its new launching in Vietnam,” said Rick Gilmore, Founder and Chairman of GFSF. 

In his assumption of the Directorship of GFSF, Mr. Paez stressed that he looks “forward to working with our members and reaching out to new members whose products and services will assist the private and public sectors in compliance objectives for our global food supply chain.”   In his closing comments, he added, “I plan to build on GFSF’s role as an information sharing platform open to both the private and public sectors worldwide.”

 For further information, contact GFSF at 703-684-1366.