Decernis Alcoholic Beverages Global Risk Management Solutions
Can I export flavored huckleberry vodka to India? What regulations do I need to comply with to sell rum in Germany? What is the threshold for pesticides in my ingredients for a specific alcoholic beverage? Decernis’ Technology Enabled Global Risk Management tools for the beverage industry can answer these and many more questions.
Alcoholic beverage retailers, distributors and manufacturers face growing challenges of tracking and managing the changing global regulatory landscape. Decernis delivers solutions and consulting services for product development, compliance, safety, regulatory and market access for the alcoholic beverage industry. The challenge today is to not only meet current requirements, but to anticipate and manage change to enable opportunity, and become more efficient in meeting global challenges.
The Decernis group of FoodChain ID maintains a practice in Compliance Advisory Services managed by an expert internal team consulting[at]decernis.com . We also work with a global team of external subject matter and regional experts to provide additional resources as needed. We have a history of working with multi national manufacturers to solve critical problems and to support speed to market.
Henrik Jungclas is a Project Manager at Decernis, mainly focusing on Food Contact Projects, Supply Chain Management and Auditing. Prior to his recent position, he has worked as a Regulatory Affairs Manager and auditor for quality and hygiene standards at Tetra Pak, Weidenhammer and Sonoco Consumer Products Europe since 2006. He is a trained quality manager and Six Sigma Green Belt.
Kim Milone is an attorney and Senior Director of Regulatory Affairs for the Company, managing all research activities and the work of Decernis’ global research team. She also coordinates the work of the Global Advisory Services practice with that of the global research team. She has served as project lead and expert in Decernis projects with major food, beverage and supplement companies.
Julie Holt is a subject matter expert in the area of food, food ingredients, additives and supplements. She has more than twenty-three years of regulatory experience in the food and food ingredients industries and managed her own advisory firm, Scientific & Regulatory Solutions LLC, for a decade. During this time, her primary client was PepsiCo. Her food ingredient competencies include: flavors, sweeteners, colors, enzymes, probiotic blends, beverages, snack foods, juice, dairy products, supplements and fine chemicals. She has provided global regulatory coverage for more than 200 countries for various employers and clients including Givaudan Flavors Corp. and Degussa AG.
Mitchell Cheeseman has 29 years of experience advising manufacturers on compliance issues for a variety of FDA regulated products including food, food additives, GRAS ingredients, processing aids, color additives, dietary supplements and dietary ingredients, animal feed and animal feed additives, cosmetics, over the counter drugs and medical devices.
Kevin is co-founder of Decernis and is an experienced regulatory attorney who has worked and consulted for 24 years in the food and consumer products space. He advises some of the world’s largest manufacturers on Food compliance and Supply Chain challenges globally. Kevin is responsible for both the regulatory content of its products and its Subject Matter Expertise across the 219 countries Decernis covers.