Food Safety and Quality - The Costco Way

Christine Summer
Food Safety Director
Costco

With 22 years of experience in the areas of food safety and quality assurance Christine Summers has been privileged to work with an exceptional team at Costco Wholesale during the past 16 years as Director of Food Safety and Quality Assurance. Christine holds a BS in Food Science and dual Masters Degrees in Food Science and Quality Assurance.

In her position at Costco, Christine establishes product quality and safety policies and practices and assures Vendor compliance to these policies and practices. Christine develops regulatory compliance programs for company facilities and the tracking of Vendor programs to assure compliance. Christine also oversees routine product quality and safety testing and Vendor and Facility Auditing. Prior to working for Costco, Christine worked in various manufacturing facilities working with poultry and further processed poultry as well as dried fruit and nuts.