Isabel Gonzalez

About Isabel Gonzalez

FSQA leader with 10+ years across manufacturing, laboratories, and exports. Delivered…

Experience

1. Food Safety and Quality Manager (Fsqa Manager)

   Producers Peanut Company, Inc

   Jan 2024 — Present · US

   Oversees and maintain audit ready the facility’s Food Safety & Quality Management System (FSQMS), ensuring compliance with regulations (FSMA/FDA), customer specifications, and GFSI requirements (SQF), while building a strong food safety culture and directing QA team performance. Serves as site SME for regulatory inspections, third‑party/customer audits, recalls, and inquiries to ensure alignment with applicable requirements. SQF Practitioner: certifications (SQF, Kosher, Halal), mock recalls, Management Reviews; keeps SOPs, training, and document control current. Food Defense Qualified Individual: develops, trains, and annually tests the plan; leads crisis/BCP simulations. Maintains audit readiness via risk‑based internal audits, gap tracking to verified closure, and monthly reporting. Oversees HACCP/Preventive Controls, sanitation, allergen/pest control, environmental monitoring, calibration/validation, document control, and traceability/recall. Oversees validation & verification of preventive controls: sanitation (ATP/protein, microbial, visual), foreign‑material prevention (metal/X‑ray), utilities, and finished‑product controls. Designs statistical sampling; manages ISO/IEC 17025 lab submissions and chain‑of‑custody; ensures PCQI review; trends environmental, product, and process KPIs. Manages traceability, incident response, and CAPA: holds/releases, recall readiness (mock recalls), and root‑cause investigations of deviations/non‑conformances/complaints with CAPA verified effective. Leads the FSMA Supply‑Chain Program and Approved Supplier List (ASL): risk‑based approval, verification, performance monitoring; oversees food‑fraud (VACCP) and specialty certifications. Prepares/approves regulatory documents and label content (Nutrition Facts, ingredients, allergens, claims), risk assessments, equipment validations, and new products/processes; verifies Sanitary Transportation compliance; oversees onboarding and recurring food‑safety trainings.

Education

• Universidad de Puerto Rico

  Chemical Technology

• Universidad de Puerto Rico

  Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc