Expert Food Safety and Regulatory Compliance specialists,
providing quality solutions to Food manufacturers and the Dairy industry.
Produco work with your business to implement legal requirements, ensuring you are compliant with industry standards. We ensure compliance through our ability to interpret complex regulations, remaining up to date with the latest requirements, process and procedural development, implementation and training of yourself and your staff.
This includes working with you to develop and implement Risk Management Plans (RMP), Food Control Plans (FCP), National Programmes (NP) or creating quality assurance solutions that are unique to your business.
- We have extensive experience getting your product across borders by ensuring products gain the correct official assurances (documentation) via compliance with OMARs (Overseas Market Access Requirements) and ICRs (Importing Country Requirements).
Contractors
- We have a range of contractors available ranging from QA advisors through to senior QA Managers. The support we offer can be onsite, remote or a combination and we cover short, medium or long-term roles, recruitment gaps or project roles.
Location
- Our head office is Hamilton, New Zealand with our contractors based at various locations throughout the North and South islands.
- We are happy to consider work in all locations including via e-mail / phone / video conference and / or travel.
COLIN OLIVER - Managing Director
I hold 20 years experience in the Dairy Industry, working across the entire supply chain (cow to customer).
With a long association working with Recognised Agencies in validation and verification as well as the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) in regulatory interpretation and standards development strong working relationships were formed. Previous chairman of the Dairy Product Safety Advisory Council.
I relish the challenge of creating sustainable solutions to ensure compliance, while adding genuine, lasting value to the business. Developing a strong food safety quality culture is a strength I enjoy implementing into businesses. It is all about the customer!
ELIZABETH MALONEY - Quality Assurance Manager, Operations
An engaging senior leader, with many years in the Dairy industry, working for NZ’s largest dairy company in Food Safety & Quality. She has managed regional quality teams across multiple manufacturing sites for many years. Her specialties lie in the Infant Formula and Nutrition areas as well as Regulatory, Laboratory Management and Sensory Evaluation.
Liz has a natural style and warmth allowing her to quickly build rapport with any team; from diverse nationalities, senior execs to operators and vendors. She builds capable, engaged teams of people with a strong focus on Food safety culture.
Her energy comes from developing individuals and teams of people to create quality systems a strong food safety quality culture and I’m also passionate about working with clients to create the best possible outcome.
Liz has represented her previous company many times during Customer, Regulatory and Internal Audits and hosted international organisations. She is comfortable managing multiple projects across sites and her major achievements include:
- Implementation of FSSC22000
- Implementation of Infant Formula standard (Manufacture of Dairy Based Infant Formula Products & Formulated Supplementary Foods for Young Children)
- Country Listing audits , China, CNCA , EEU, EU
- Development and implementation of Sensory training programs
ADITHYA MANAZHY - Quality Assurance Coordinator
I am a Food technologist with a couple of years techno-commercial experience specialising in spices, fragrances, flavours and natural colours. After graduating with my Masters in Food Process Engineering, I joined the Produco team early 2018.
My project experience working in cross-functional teams has shown me the importance of building good relationships, understanding end to end processes, identifying flaws and ultimately providing quality-based solutions.
It’s exciting to work with some major food companies in New Zealand in this role and provide food safety and quality advice. Travelling to new places, meeting new people and working with experienced professionals and contributing to the success of companies attaining compliance with food safety regulations is a satisfying part of my job.
My key strengths and skills include:
- Quality Assurance
- Verification & Validation
- Regulatory Compliance
- HACCP & FCP
- GMP
- Review & Documentation
- Customer Management
SAIPRIYA SHAHI - Quality Assurance Coordinator
Recently after graduating with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Food Science, Saipriya joined the Produco team. She is a Food Technologist with one year experience in New Product Development and eight years Customer Service experience.
Saipriya is passionate about food and its quality and having opportunities to work creatively with food. She has a strong attention to detail and passion for solving challenges, which allows her to work well independently.
She has a growing list of major New Zealand food producers she has worked with, particularly in the Dairy industry. Her goal is to improve food safety and quality and ultimately contribute to a healthier future. She enjoys being able to incorporate her love for photography and travel into this role.
Key strengths and skills:
- Quality Assurance
- Verification and Validation
- GMP, HACCP, SOP, RORP
- Regulatory Compliance
- Nutritional Information Labelling
- Sensory Testing
- Review and Documentation
- Customer focussed
Saipriya Shahi
