About Us
Our story
How we began
Aditi Zutshi founded Food Protect in 2018 to provide the catering and hospitality sectors with a new and refreshing approach to health and food safety. Having worked within the food industry for many years, Aditi had become disillusioned with the existing levels of service provided by safety consultants.
Where we are now
The consultants at Food Protect work with their clients to create simple, bespoke safety systems that catering staff understand, use and value. They empower catering teams to understand why they do what they do, in terms of safety, and create a culture and ways of working that protect their people and customers from ill health and injury.
Where we're going
Aditi and her team are striving to become the preferred safety partner for hospitality businesses across the UK, with a reputation built on Food Protect’s guiding principles.
Our guiding principles
“Health and food safety compliance has earned itself a reputation for being onerous. With its often-overcomplicated processes and documentation, and the lack of implementation support and staff training, food businesses have adopted a “nice to have" rather than a “need to have" approach to compliance. Food Protect is passionate about changing these negative perceptions and helping employers to put health and food safety compliance at the core of their business.”
Aditi Zutshi - Director & Principal Consultant
Food Protect
Our people
At Food Protect, we hand-pick consultants with the most suitable skills and experience for each project. Meet a few of our core team members.
Aditi Zutshi
Director & Principal Consultant
BSc, MSc, MCIEH, MIFST, FRSPH, RFoodSM
Aditi Zutshi is a highly qualified and competent health & food safety professional. She has over 15 years of wide-ranging experience in the food industry gained in food manufacturing, airline catering, contract catering, and hospitality. Her approach is pragmatic and practical, and she has a real passion for training and engaging with people. Aditi is a certified ISO 9001:2008 Lead Auditor, holds a NEBOSH certificate in Occupational Health & Safety and has significant experience in setting up and maintaining Primary Authority partnerships with local authorities.
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Dean Morrison
Associate Consultant
MCIEH, AMRSPH
Since working in one of London’s top five-star hotels, Dean Morrison has worked for over 20 years as an independent consultant, specialising in food safety and health & safety. He has worked across various organisations in the UK catering and hospitality industry and has delivered training courses and audits for multi-site pub companies, schools, warehouses, hotels, and contract caterers. Dean is an accomplished auditor with an engaging personality, an eye for detail, and a solution-oriented approach to auditing. He is a full member of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (MCIEH), and an associate member of the Royal Society of Public Health (AMRSPH).
Fidelma Pogorelaw
Associate Consultant
FIFST
Fidelma is a qualified Food Technologist with over 25 years’ technical experience in both wholesale and retail food sectors. Primary areas of expertise include supporting business in the supply chain to meet the standard for BRCGS, SALSA and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) as well as local authorities.
She is trained to level 4 HACCP and a certificated lead auditor with experience in developing HACCP systems, quality systems, training sessions, auditing programmes, troubleshooting and pioneering culture change.
Fidelma is a Fellow of the Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST), and Secretary of the IFST special interest group in food safety. As a SALSA auditor and mentor, she has gained a sound breadth and depth of product knowledge in various product categories.
Get in touch
Our health and food safety consultants support catering and hospitality businesses of all sizes in London, Greater London and the surrounding counties.
Please get in touch with us, and we will arrange a call to discuss your needs.
