Lori Ledenbach
Founder
Ledenbach Food Safety LLC

Loralyn (Lori) Ledenbach is President of Ledenbach Food Safety, LLC, having recently retired as Associate Director for Food Safety at Kraft Heinz North America. Prior to her retirement, she had been with the company for over 43 years. Over this time, Lori had worked on new method development and product category support for: enhancers products, pizza, and natural and pasteurized process cheese. She was one of the internal process authorities for pasteurized process cheese products, and co-developed the Better Process Control School for Process Cheese standard curricula. She led the Kraft Foods global HACCP team, then Kraft Heinz NA HACCP team. She is a Trainer of Trainers for Preventive Controls for Human Foods, a Lead Instructor for Foreign Supplier Verification Program, and a Lead Instructor for Intentional Adulteration Vulnerability Assessments. She is a Fellow and Honorary Life Member of the International Association for Food Protection. She graduated with a B.S. degree in Biological Sciences from Northern Illinois University and a M.S. degree in Food Science from University of Illinois.