Our Journey to Food Safety Leadership | Our Journey to Food Safety Leadership

Our Food Safety Vision is to provide consumers safe, great tasting food produced in a safe environment.  The foundation of this is building and maintaining a strong food safety culture, which requires strong leadership.  To this end we are delighted to announce the immediate appointment of Sharon Beals as the new Senior Vice President, Food Safety and Quality Assurance.

In this role, Sharon will be responsible for the continuous development and implementation of Food Safety, Regulatory and Quality Assurance initiatives, including mandatory common systems, compliance, technology development, and audit across all fresh and processed  meat and poultry plants at Maple Leaf Consumer Foods.

With a Bachelor of Science (Nutrition and Food Science) from Cornell University, Sharon brings over 25 years of experience in Food Safety, Regulatory, Quality Assurance and Process Development.  The scope of this experience encompasses crisis management, government relations, HACCP, SPC, lab services, QA and food safety systems. 

In her most recent position as Vice President of Technical Services at Smithfield Packing, Sharon was responsible for Food Safety, Regulatory Compliance, Research and Development, Product Innovation, Quality Assurance, Laboratories and Corporate Sanitation across all facilities.  Prior to this role, Sharon garnered senior food safety expertise at Tyson Foods, Orval Kent Food Company, Arby’s Inc  and Land O’Frost.

Welcome Sharon we are pleased to have you join the team.