Biji Varghese

• Led end-to-end to quality assurance operations across production, packaging and
sanitation, ensuring 100% compliance with CFIA, HACCP, GMP and BRC standards.
• Served as primary owner of HACCP and CCP verification resulting in zero critical
food safety violations during internal, customer and regulatory audits.
• Conducted root cause analysis and trend analysis on quality data and customer
complaints, driving initiatives that cut repeat customer complaint by 50%.
• Partnered with operations, maintenance and sanitation leadership to implement
process improvements that reduced product holds and, rework by 23%.
• Released, blocked, or rejected materials in SAP based on inspection results and
created, and reviewed quality notifications, deviations, CAPAs and supporting on -
time production and shipment with performance with greater than 92%
• Mentored and trained production operators on GMPs, food safety culture and best
documentation practices, improving compliance audit scores.

• Supported new product development and reformulation projects, contributing to
the successful launch of 3-4 products annually from bench-scale through pilot
trials.
• Executed laboratory experiments, sample preparation, and analytical testing with
more than 99% data accuracy.
• Conduced pilot plant and scale-up trials, identifying process adjustments that
improved yield by 10-15% and reduced batch failures by 20%.
• Conducted shelf life, stability, and performance testing, enabling data-decisions
that extended product shelf life by 20-30%.
• Support sensory, consumer or performance testing panels, analyzing results to
guide formulation improvements and enhance product acceptance scores by 8%.

CFRIL collaborates with organizations across the food processing, packaging and food
service sectors to deliver practical, scalable solutions and support every stage of the
product development cycle—from concept to commercialization.
• Partnered with food science experts to assist in physical, chemical and
microbiological testing services in product development.
• Identified primary modes of shelf-life failures (microbial growth, oxidation, texture,
degradation, packaging failure), contributing to data driven recommendation that
extended shelf life by20-30%
• Conducted NIR spectrometric analysis on 500+ samples for key parameters such as
moisture, protein, fat and compositional attributes.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate NIR analytics into product
development.