TOPNOTCH FOOD TECH IS OURFOOD TRAINOR
Libia de Lima – Chavez is one of the leading food technologists in the country. Ma’am Libi as she is fondly called, finished her BS Food Technology and MS in Food Science from the University of the Philippines – Diliman, Quezon City. Her vast experience in the fields of food technology, food science and food safety includes being the managing director and senior consultant of Food Development and Training Systems, Inc., product development manager of the Poultry Division of Pure Foods Corporation, operations manager of Ocean Fresh Foods Corporation, assistant production manager of PIC Food Corporation and head for Food Research, Development and Processing of Aguinaldo Development Corporation. Being an ‘Iska’, she has inspired many to become Food Technologists like her especially during her stint as a professor at O.B. Montessori College, Assumption College, and Philippine Women’s University. Ma’am Libi has authored and coauthored several several college textbooks including “Food, Water, and Environmental Safety and Sanitation for Food Service”, “Basic Foods for Filipinos”, and “Practical Food Processing and Preservation”. She also has served as editor of Food Safety Bulletin, a quarterly publication of FAFST and managing editor of the Philippine Journal of Food Science and Technology, a former publication of the Philippine Association of Food Technologists. Being a top notch food technologist, she has worked with several international organizations