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Jeri Butler

Ratcliff,United States

Summary

Dynamic Consumer Safety Inspector with USDA-FSIS, skilled in regulatory compliance and hazard identification. Proven track record in enhancing food safety protocols and training staff. Proficient in documentation review and effective communication, ensuring safe and wholesome products. Passionate about public health, consistently driving improvements in inspection processes and product quality.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Consumer Safety Inspector

USDA-FSIS
Minneapolis, United States
07.2007 - Current
  • Company Overview: The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is the public health regulatory agency responsible for ensuring that domestic and imported meat, poultry, and processed egg products are safe, wholesome, and correctly labeled and packaged.
  • Highest Grade GS 10/8 Relief inspector and currently GS-9 after nationwide demotion of GS 10s. My duties as a CSI GS-9, include verifying and enforcing regulatory compliance of 9 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) by conducting inspections daily within my current duty station.
  • I schedule and perform tasks in Public Health Information System (PHIS) to verify compliance within the establishment and enter data and findings accordingly so that the information can be readily available in the event of foodborne illness outbreaks or alert FSIS administrative personnel of key information to be proactive in preventing foodborne illness.
  • Regulatory control actions are taken in accordance with 9 CFR 500 as needed to prevent adulteration or contamination of product or prevent adulterated, contaminated or misbranded product from entering commerce.
  • Throughout my Career with the agency, whether it be as an IIC in plant or a relief inspector, I’ve been consistent in supporting the mission of the agency regardless of situations.
  • My passion for food safety is my driving force.
  • I ensure that product and ingredients are stored, processed, and packaged in a safe wholesome manner that would not adulterate the finished product for consumers through observation of process/product, review of documentation and product sampling.
  • I thoroughly review the establishments' HACCP, GMP’s, SSOP’s, pest control reports, and swabbing/sampling records to ensure that the establishment is following their procedures, and the documentation of their outcomes are acceptable.
  • I interact daily with a wide range of establishment management that includes, but not limited to, Plant Managers, Production Supervisors, Food Safety and Quality Managers, and Quality Assurance/Control Supervisors to discuss any findings during the daily routine inspection.
  • I would conduct in person weekly meetings with establishment management to discuss observations, sample results, review noncompliances, clarify areas of concern, offer resources and support the plant in identifying and mitigating potential future issues.
  • I have easily identified numerous issues with HACCP plans, including missing process steps in the flow chart and Hazard Analysis, establishments not performing DO or RR of their HACCP plan, or preshipment review signatures.
  • I have observed establishments producing and attempting to ship product without inspection legends and took regulatory control action and retained product until proper labeling was applied.
  • The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is the public health regulatory agency responsible for ensuring that domestic and imported meat, poultry, and processed egg products are safe, wholesome, and correctly labeled and packaged.

USDA Helper

Cargill/Butterball
Ozark, United States
05.2001 - 07.2007
  • My primary responsibility was to remove birds from production that USDA has judged as unfit for human consumption or mark portions of the bird for trim that USDA has rendered unfit for human consumption.
  • I had many duties at Cargill including working in Salvage where I was responsible for salvaging birds USDA had rendered salvageable.
  • I had to cut up birds and check for osteomyolitis and cut away synovitis parts from birds sent to TOC Salvage.
  • As a USDA helper, I asked USDA many questions to learn about USDA and learned what they looked for in birds.
  • I also worked in parts where I filled boxes with parts such as breasts, drums, thighs, wings, livers, hearts, gizzards, and necks.
  • I weighed and labeled boxes appropriately.
  • I have worked in every department in this plant from time to time as needed and learned jobs to fill in when needed.
  • I trained others on jobs as well.
  • As a member of ergonomics and safety team, I walked around plant production area each morning after pre op was completed and checked for any hazard or safety threat.
  • Salary: 350.00 wkly
  • Hours per week: 40

Education

Food Science and Safety -

Bay Path University
Long Meadow, Massachusetts
10.2020

Business Administration -

Rich Mountain Community College
01.1999

Skills

  • Proficient with Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Front Page
  • Excellent typing skills
  • Production monitoring
  • Effective communication
  • Problem solving
  • Training and mentoring
  • Time management
  • Hazard identification
  • Sampling procedures
  • Policy enforcement
  • Documentation review
  • Sanitation evaluation
  • Incident reporting
  • Lockout and tagout procedures
  • Contamination monitoring
  • Deficiency documentation
  • Records/files maintenance
  • Site visits
  • Program activities
  • Workplace inspections
  • Public health
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Product inspection

References

  • Linda Ford, FSIS- USDA FLS, 479-717-5196, Linda.Ford@usda.gov
  • Kimberly Johnson, FSIS-USDA SCSI, 479-313-3387, kimberly.johnson4@usda.gov
  • Dr. Jeff Legg, FLS FSIS-USDA, 406-671-4651, jeffrey.legg428@usda.gov
  • Scott Ehle, Regional Compliance Officer, 580-920-8544, scott.ehle@usda.gov

Job Related Training

  • Active Listening: The Secret of Effective Communication, 10/01/24
  • Further Processing and Labeling, 07/01/20
  • Thermal Processing, 10/01/19
  • HACCP Training Modules 3-10, 03/15/11
  • FSRE 2012
  • Poultry Slaughter Training 2010
  • Red Meat Slaughter Training 2013

Certification

  • Food Science and Safety (Honorary)

Accomplishments

  • Monetary Award for noteworthy effort to assist food inspectors in understanding the regulatory requirements HACCP, SSOP, Food Security and GCPs.
  • Non-Monetary Award for identifying fraudulent lab results and reporting to district so that an FSA could be completed
  • Non-Monetary Award-Identifying chemicals in product that were not on the label and also identifying that the chemical would not properly represent the label of being natural or organic.
  • Monetary awards for identifying water issues that interferred in the safety of ready to eat product.
  • Identifying products as adulterated that were over injected with Sodium nitrite.
  • Identify labeling issues that initiated a change in labels nationwide for a company.
  • Identified insanitary conditions that resulted in immediate withdrawal actions
  • Identified issues that warranted FSAs and then reported weekly on establishment that were under NOIE that resulted from establishment's failure to adhere to regulatory requirements.
  • Identified missing steps in Hazard Analysis that resulted in change

Timeline

Consumer Safety Inspector

USDA-FSIS
07.2007 - Current

USDA Helper

Cargill/Butterball
05.2001 - 07.2007

Food Science and Safety -

Bay Path University

Business Administration -

Rich Mountain Community College

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