Food Microbiology & Nutrition

Dimitri Tavernarakis holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial and Mechanical Engineering; Master’s Degree in Mechatronics. He has extensive background developing compliant equipment for the industry and especially the food sector following based on the requirements of the directives of the European Union for hygienic equipment and food safety. At TOMRA he works as a Food Safety Engineering Leader. His work is to communicate with the market and the developer engineers to provide guidance for developing efficiently equipment that fit the application in a holistic approach by bringing together the required knowledge from different disciplines of the industry. He has been actively participating in the International Organization of Food Protection. He is currently the Vice-Chairman of “Equipment and Facility Sanitary PDG”, TOMRA. The TOMRA Group continues to innovate and provide cutting-edge solutions for optimal resource productivity within two main business areas: Collection Solutions (reverse vending and material recovery) and Sorting Solutions (recycling, mining and food sorting).