Beatrice is the Director, Food Safety & Regulatory Affairs at Food Allergy Canada. In this capacity, she leads the organization’s food safety initiatives working with both government and industry stakeholders, with a specific focus on access to accurate ingredient information in food labelling and foodservice. She is actively involved in international discussions related to allergen management as a member of the Health Canada delegation for the CODEX Committee on Food Labelling (CCFL) and collaborates internationally with other patient organizations globally. Beatrice is currently the Project Management Lead for a multi-stakeholder initiative for the development of Allergen Management and Pre-cautionary Allergen Labelling Guidelines for the Canadian food industry. She graduated from the University of Toronto, with an Honours BA in political science and economics.

Dr. Dominguez is a food engineer specialized in food safety risk assessment, allergen management, statistical analysis and data modeling. She holds a MSc and a PhD in Food Science from Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA). After graduation, she worked as a food microbiologist for the food industry in the United States, before returning to research and consulting in 2016. She currently works as a research associate at the Food Risk Analysis and Regulatory Excellence Platform, hosted by the Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods (INAF) of Université Laval (Quebec, Canada), where she manages research projects on allergens and food fraud, industry outreach activities, and food safety capacity building initiatives for competent authorities at the international level.

Samuel Godefroy is the former Director General of Health Canada’s Food Directorate and a former Vice Chair of the FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission. Samuel is currently Full Professor in the Department of Food Science at Université Laval (Québec, Canada), where he leads the Food Risk Analysis and Regulatory Excellence Platform. He is also the Board President and a founding member of the Global Food Regulatory Science Society (GFoRSS).

Dr. Godefroy currently serves as a senior food science and regulatory expert on a number of advisory bodies and committees domestically and internationally, and as strategic and operational advisor to international food safety capacity building initiatives focused on regulatory enhancement, implemented by UNIDO and FAO.

Dr. Godefroy has authored over 80 scientific publications and book chapters, and is an editorial board member for various scientific journals.
Samuel received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI). He holds degrees in Chemistry, Biochemistry and Chemical Engineering from the same University and from the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris, France.

Since her graduation from the University of Manitoba in Food Science and Microbiology, over the past 25 plus years Sharon has worked in successive roles within the Canadian Food Industry (FSQA, manufacturing, sanitation, retail and foodservice). She joined Maple Leaf Foods (MLF) in Sept. 2006 in a Corporate Food Safety and Quality role, and only 18 months afterwards she was one of the many MLF personnel stationed on ground-zero at a plant which was the centre of a national Canadian Listeria recall and illness outbreak. She was on the front line working with Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) local and regional staff assigned to the crisis. Looking back, this became the pivot of her regulatory career. In her current role as Director – Government and Industry Relations, she supports the MLF teams with regulatory services such as interpretation and analysis which leads to Issues Management, Operations Support & Strategic solutions. In addition, she works with CFIA Regional Operations and CFIA National personnel to enable commercial and consistent decision making (with enforcement discretion when applicable). Via MLF industry association membership and directly with CFIA officials, she shares industry knowledge / best practices and escalates / advocates issues to solve industry’s common objectives. She represent MLF on various industry committees / associations: Canadian Meat Council (CMC), Import-Export Canada (IEC), Plant Based Foods Canada (PBFC) and strategic working groups such as AAFC’s Agile Regulatory Table (ART), Covid Flexibility, Irritants and Food and Beverage Canada’s (FBC) Labour Taskforce