About Morton Food Safety Associates

About Dale Morton

Dale is a food safety professional with over 35 years of corporate food safety program development experience.  He is the President of Morton Food Safety Associates, LLC , a Preventive Controls Qualified Individual and is the recipient of the 2016 Grocery Manufacturer's Association Food Safety Award.  

Dale retired from PepsiCo in 2015.  As the Senior Director of Food Safety, Dale successfully developed and oversaw programs designed to ensure food safety for all products produced globally by PepsiCo, the second largest food company in the world, an $80 billion company.  He was responsible for crisis management, food safety systems, food defense, food safety by design and process technology.

While at PepsiCo, Dale developed standardized global platforms for crisis management, HACCP, allergens, supplier quality, environmental pathogen control, pest management, aseptic technologies, sanitation, Food Safety Modernization Act, GFSI and traceability. 

Dale is currently on the Scientific Advisory Board for Neogen Corp and the Foundation Board for McHenry County College.  He was on the Board of Directors for AIB International and the Food Research Institute before retiring from PepsiCo.  Dale has a B.S. degree in Agriculture from Ohio University and a M.S. degree in Food Microbiology from University of Maryland. 

He started his career at the National Food Processors Association in the Microbiology and Thermal Processing area and then worked for Armour – Dial before moving to PepsiCo.

Dale is a member of the Institute of Food Technologists, International Association of Food Protection and Institute for Thermal Processing Specialists. 

Testimonials

“The sum is truly greater than the parts of the FoodSafe RepProtect program from Ketchum and Morton Food Safety Associates. The program helped strengthen our food-safety recall plans to be more compliant with FSMA best-practices. In addition, today our whole organization is better prepared to align the operations and reputation elements of a food safety crisis. Of course we hope never to put these elements into real-life practice, but we are more confident in our readiness thanks to this program.”
– Dr. Brandon Nelson, Director-Innovation and Technical Services,

“We have worked with Dale on numerous initiatives, including gap analysis, policy and procedure standardization, audit preparation, and process validation. Dale's experience and competencies have helped our organization make step-change improvements in our Quality and Food Safety performance. We highly recommend Dale's services."
- Chris Droney, Director - Supply Chain, Nonnis Foods, LLC

"Dale Morton / MFSA has been a trusted Mattson partner since 2017. His knowledge and expertise in Food Safety and FSMA compliance has proven to be invaluable to our company. We've also leveraged Dale as a Process Authority when necessary. MFSA is truly a one stop shop for Food Safety."

- Anne-Marie Pruzan, Vice President Product Development, Mattson Co.

Professional Affiliations

Lead Instructor - FSPCA Preventive Controls for Human Food

Vice President - McHenry County College Foundation

Formerly served on Food Research Institute Board of Directors, AIBI Board of Trustees

Coordinator:  2002 and 2007 Food Industry Microbiology Roundtable, Chicago, IL.

Member: IFT; International Association for Food Protection, Institute for Thermal Processing Specialists.

Membership Chair:  1993-1996, Food Microbiology Division, IFT.

Chairman: 1992-94, Cactus Section of Institute of Food Technologists (IFT).

Training/Workshops

PCQI Lead Instructor training, Better Process Control School, Lauhoff Grain Company GMP’s for the Food Industry, American Type Culture Collection Workshop Series, NFPA HACCP Workshop, American-National Can Process Determination Seminar, TechniCal Advanced Thermal Process Determination

Education

M.S. Food Microbiology, 12/87, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

B.S. Agronomy, 6/81, Ohio University, Athens, OH.