Carlos Lima dos Santos
Carlos Lima dos Santos has been involved in food handling and processing, inspection and quality control for more than 40 years, particularly in the field of fish as food.
Carlos holds a diploma in Veterinary Medicine and a M.Sc. in Food Science and Microbiology. He is a former Director of the Brazilian Federal Fish Inspection Service and joined the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1980 from where he retired in July 1999. During the last 10 years in FAO he was Project Manager of the FAO/UNDP Global Training Program on Quality Assurance and then responsible for the technical backstopping of FAO activities in fish inspection and quality assurance at global level.
Presently he is working as a free-lance international expert, based in his home city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His major field of interest is the introduction of the HACCP and risk analysis concepts in the food industry from catching/farming until the consumer table.
He is a Visiting Professor of Food Hygiene at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Fluminense Federal University, Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and a Senior Consultant for the ambitious National Industry Confederation Project that aims at implementing the HACCP system in the whole Brazilian food industry, from catching/harvesting to the consumer table.
He is a member of The Academy of Veterinary Medicine of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, founding member of Pan-American Network on Fish Inspection and Quality Control, member of the editorial board of The Fish Inspector, INFOFISH International and INFOPESCA International. Carlos is Secretary of the Executive Board of the International Association of Fish Inspectors (IAFI).
