Gary Kestenbaum

Gary Kestenbaum is an independent food packaging consultant with 45 years of experience in the food industry as a food ingredient technician with National Starch, a food product developer with General and Kraft Foods, a senior package developer with Kraft Foods and a senior food packaging safety consultant with EHA Consulting Group.

Gary’s Recent activity

A food packaging safety checklist for incoming materials

Oct 28, 2014

At the very least, documentation for incoming packaging materials requires you to create a custom vendor/supplier disclosure form, the mechanism for obtaining component manufacturing disclosure and documentation...

Food packaging safety: Risk identification, prioritization and response

Oct 16, 2014

This month’s column underscores the fact that identifying, analyzing, and understanding the risks associated with producing safely packaged foods is a daunting task. It’s best to approach this task with the...