About Us

Food Safety Tech is a digital media community for food industry professionals interested in food safety and quality. We inform, educate and connect food manufacturers and processors, retail & food service, food laboratories, growers, suppliers and vendors, and regulatory agencies with original, in-depth features and reports, curated industry news and user-contributed content, and live and virtual events that offer knowledge, perspectives, strategies and resources to facilitate an environment that fosters safer food for consumers.

Since 2012, Food Safety Tech audiences have learned to respect and expect our high-quality content—via FoodSafetyTech.com, our weekly newsletter and by attending our educational programs. Food Safety Tech keeps professionals current with the latest information about technology, best practices and regulations, and how innovative solutions and approaches can be leveraged to further advance food safety across the globe.

Our highly interactive community also engages marketers with audiences involved in food safety and quality, food laboratories, supply chain, standards and training who are seeking knowledge, new solutions and guidance to help navigate evolving regulatory policies, compliance and the development and/or application of innovative technology. Food Safety Tech keeps your team, products and services engaged with current customers and prospects through an interactive content-rich community and an environment, delivering high visibility for successful Branding/Awareness, Thought Leadership and Demand-Generation campaigns.

Mission Statement:

Food Safety Tech publishes news, technology, trends, regulatory information, and expert opinions on food safety, food quality, food business and food sustainability. We also offer educational, career advancement and networking opportunities to the global food industry. This information exchange is facilitated through ePublishing, digital and live events. By providing such an exchange of knowledge and technologies, Food Safety Tech will aid in the advancement and progress of the global food industry, thus, contributing to a healthier world.

Leadership Team:

Rick Biros, President/Publisher, Innovative Publishing Co. LLCRick Biros, President/Publisher
Rick has 30 years of B2B publishing experience. Early in his career, he worked on Food Processing and then Food Engineering magazines in sales and then a management role. After an E. coli outbreak in the Pacific Northwest killed four children and made national headlines, Rick recognized the gap in food industry trade journals and created a new media segment by founding Carpe Diem Communications, where he developed and launched Food Quality, the first trade magazine serving the food safety and quality market. He then developed the Food Quality Award and The Food Quality Conference & Expo as well as launched two other print magazines, Pharmaceutical Formulation & Quality and Contamination Control. Under his direction, Food Quality and Pharmaceutical Formulation & Quality received editorial excellence awards from The American Society of Business Publication Editors which included his own monthly column in Food Quality. In 2007, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. acquired Carpe Diem and Rick went to work as their Global Business Development Director for Life Sciences.

In mid 2009, Rick continued his entrepreneurial interests with the development of Innovative Publishing Company, specializing in digital media and events. He developed the business model for Innovative Publishing Company with its first property, MedTech Intelligence, a digital magazine and e-newsletter coupled with a series of focused conferences, both online and onsite, serving the medical device and diagnostics industries. The digital media and events model addresses the three main marketing objectives of today’s B2B advertisers and exhibitors: Brand Awareness, Thought Leadership and Lead Generation. Innovative Publishing’s business model can validate a return on investment for advertisers that print media cannot, which results in high customer retention year after year.

Publishing’s conference model. In late 2015, Cannabis Industry Journal was launched and in 2019, the Cannabis Quality Conference & Expo premiered.

In 2020, due to COVID-19, Innovative Publishing successfully pivoted to virtual events with a unique model of weekly episodes that is evolving into hybrid events for 2021 and beyond. Contact Rick

Inga Hansen, Managing EditorInga Hansen, Managing Editor
Inga Hansen is the managing editor of MedTech Intelligence and Food Safety Tech. She has more than 20 years’ experience in business-to-business healthcare media. Inga previously served as executive editor of MedEsthetics magazine and associate editor of Dialysis & Transplantation. Contact Inga

 

RJ Palmero, Innovative PublishingRJ Palermo, Sales Director
RJ has more than 20 years of media, conference and agency experience. He was most recently a biopharmaceutical equipment contributor for the Pharma’s Almanac publication, and delivered several branding and research projects for pharmaceutical and medical device contract manufacturers. For 17 years RJ served as vice president of Interphex, the largest pharmaceutical manufacturing event in North America and was a key contributor of a successful launch of Medical Device Puerto Rico, which created the largest life sciences event in the Caribbean. RJ is an avid NY sports fan, and enjoys working out and spending time with his family and friends. RJ is married to his wife Beth, has a daughter Nora and dog Beau, and resides in Norwalk, CT. Contact RJ.

 

Food Safety Tech and MedTech Intelligence are published and owned by Innovative Publishing Company, Inc., Edgartown, Massachusetts USA; Rick Biros, President and Founding Principal.