Awards season is in full swing with CFA members honoured with some of the industry’s most prestigious prizes. Congratulations to Moy Park who scored a hat-trick at the Northern Ireland Food and Drink Awards with Dr Gary McMahon named Food Safety Champion (above left on right), Ursula Lavery (above right) winning the Outstanding Food & Drink Industry Leadership Award and Moy Park’s Culinary Academy picking up the Food and Drink Sector Skill Award.
Cranswick plc was recognised in Food Manufacture Magazine’s Excellence Awards, winning the sustainability category. Moy Park also scored highly on the night with Megan Afford a finalist in the Apprentice of the Year category and the company in the final of Meat Poultry & Seafood Manufacturing Company category. Megan also shares her apprentice experiences on the Chilled Education website.
And still on the subject of awards, CFA’s Director General Karin Goodburn was made an Honorary Fellow of the ISFT in March. The prestigious title is held by only 20 other leading lights in the field of food science and goes to those who have “made extensive personal contributions to the working and progress of the Institute and to the food science and technology profession”.