Michelle W.

I’m an independent food safety and FSQA advisor with more than two decades of experience across retail, foodservice, manufacturing, distribution, prepared foods, seafood, and technology. My work focuses on solving complex food safety and quality challenges by combining regulatory knowledge, operational experience, product development, supplier oversight, and practical risk management. Through InnoSafe Foods, I advise companies on food safety programs, regulatory compliance, risk governance, supplier and product specifications, operational assessments, labeling, and prepared food systems. My experience includes national retail brands, airline catering, seafood operations and processing, sushi programs, high volume convenience food operations, manufacturing, and distribution. I have worked with seafood from both the retail operations side and the processing and supplier side, including Seafood HACCP, product quality, specifications, supplier controls, cold chain considerations, and operational execution. I also serve as a Product Advisor and FSQA subject matter expert for Waystation AI, where I help translate food safety and quality requirements into technology and data driven workflows. My work includes supplier and product data review, specification comparison, document and evidence evaluation, dataset validation, classification, discrepancy identification, requirement to evidence mapping, and quality assurance of AI generated outputs. I also provide product and user experience feedback from the perspective of an experienced food safety practitioner. This work has expanded my consulting into the intersection of food safety, artificial intelligence, data quality, and product development. I am particularly interested in projects involving food data, regulatory information, product specifications, labeling, AI training and validation, taxonomy development, annotation guidelines, seafood, supplier management, and systems designed to support food safety or quality teams. I have extensive experience with ingredient and nutritional analysis, including Genesis R&D, recipe formulation, product composition, Nutrition Facts development, specifications, and the development and review of hundreds of prepared food SKUs. I also collaborate with other food safety consulting organizations, including Active Food Safety, The Definitive Safety Group, and KTLO Solutions, providing expert level support with a practical, hands on approach. My work has also been recognized through industry media. In 2025, I was featured in Parade Magazine as a food safety expert discussing airport food safety, and I authored “Safe Until Served: The Hidden Risks of RTE Foods in Retail” for Food Safety Magazine. I’m known for taking complicated food safety, quality, operational, and data problems and turning them into structured, usable solutions. Whether the project involves an operational food safety program, seafood processing, product specifications, nutritional data, supplier documentation, or an emerging AI platform, my focus is the same: accuracy, consistency, practical execution, and solutions that work in the real world.