Great Lakes' Schumaker wins 2024 Food Safety Leadership Award
The award, now in its eighth year, honors an individual, group or organization for demonstrating outstanding leadership directed at enhancing food safety within the dairy products industry.
Rob Shumaker ofGreat Lakes Cheese received the International Dairy Foods Association’s (IDFA) 2024 Food Safety Leadership Award during IDFA’s Dairy Forum. The award, now in its eighth year, honors an individual, group or organization for demonstrating outstanding leadership directed at enhancing food safety within the dairy products industry.
Shumaker has worked with IDFA’s Food Safety Committee and the University of Wisconsin to determine various food safety and risk factors in cheese production. Dr. Kathy Glass with the University of Wisconsin’s Food Research Institute wrote in her letter of support for Rob’s nomination: “Rob is a guardian of food safety for Great Lakes Cheese and for the dairy industry.”