Rudy Westervelt is an independent consultant for EAS Consulting Group LLC, specializing in problem-solving related to dairy food quality, loss reduction, employee safety results, throughput and cost control. He also is a board member of World Food Trace Inc., a non-profit creating a tool to instantaneously trace products through the global food supply chain, and a member of the Global Food Traceability Pilot Project, which developed a universal coding system for manufactured food products with a searchable database for rapid identification of source in case of contamination.