McCormick & Company's Global Food Contact Expert: Kimberly Sheehy

Kimberly Sheehy has always been interested in science and aspired to be a veterinarian. She earned her bachelor's degree in biology before attending graduate school for biochemistry. She worked in a few academic research labs and at the University of Chicago for a few years, undertaking protein engineering research. She found out about a job at a consulting firm and took it. She loved it and eventually ended up managing a team of consultants in food contact. And now she's with McCormick & Company.

On this episode, we'll talk about but not limited to:

• What does a global food contact regulatory expert do?
• McCormick & Company
• What are some of the most interesting parts of testing packaging and food?
• When it comes to different packaging formats, glass versus plastic, what are some of the things that she have learned or she think would be important to know?
• The complexities of different types of packaging and how it actually benefits our life.
• In a multi-layer plastic package, what are all the different layers in there and what are the functions that they serve, ideally?
• What special considerations are made with that internal layer that's actually touching the food? Is that different than the other plastic layers at all?
• Have she worked at all with recycled content in flexible packaging? Or rigid plastic packaging?
• from her standpoint and what she's looking at, which is mostly food safety, is it worth the risk to use recycled content? Or would it just be better for the entire packaging value chain or even consumers to just stick with virgin material?
• What's her take on using glass for food packaging?
• What advice would she have for students that were thinking about getting into packaging?
• So what's her take on the BPAs and the PFAs that are in a lot of the headlines right now?

Kimberly Sheehy is a food contact regulatory professional with expertise in US FDA, EU, and China food contact regulatory compliance requirements. Experience with other global food contact regulatory requirements, FDA Food Contact Notification submission, and California Proposition 65. Skilled at multi-project management and providing risk assessment, compliance strategies, regulatory compliance review, and regulatory training. Strong operations professional with a Master of Science (MS) focused in Biochemistry from Northern Illinois University.

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