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Juan F. DeVillena
Dr. Juan “Juanfra” DeVillena (Ph.D.) is a renowned food safety professional with well-rounded experience in the poultry industry. He started in the poultry industry working as a Research Assistant at the Food Safety Laboratory at the University of Maryland, Nutrition and Food Science Department. He completed his research on antibiotic resistant in poultry at the U.S. FDA - Center for Veterinary Medicine in Maryland and later worked for Perdue Farms in Delaware, as Production Supervisor and FSQA Supervisor.
He has been working for Wayne-Sanderson Farms (currently the third largest poultry producing in the USA) since 2004 in various roles with increasing responsibility, starting as a QA Supervisor, QA Manager, Plant Manager, Operations Manager at the Danville, AR and Pendergrass, GA complex; Director of Quality Assurance and Food Safety and Vice President of Quality Assurance and Food Safety, before moving into his current role of Senior Vice President of Quality Assurance and Food Safety.
Juanfra received his bachelor’s degree (B.S.) in Food Science and his professional degree (Eng.) in Food Engineering from the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina in Lima, Peru; his master’s degree (M.S.) in Food Science from the University of Maryland and his doctorate degree (Ph.D.) in Animal Science from Texas Tech University, receiving a nomination for the “Outstanding Research Award”. Juanfra is a devoted speaker and guest lecturer at international forums & conferences as well as at prestigious Universities in the U.S.
Juanfra serves in several industry committees (e.g., U.S. Poultry & Egg Association, National Chicken Council, The Poultry Science Association, etc.) and has served as the chairman for the Advisory Committee to the Agricultural Technology Research Program (ATRP) at Georgia Tech and was featured as the “Science Profile” for the February 2021 edition of MeatingPlace magazine as well as in the MeatingPlace podcast #53 of February 2022.
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