Austin Publicover has held the Certified in Comprehensive Food Safety (CCFS) and the Certified Professional in Food Safety (CP-FS) credentials, is an International HACCP Alliance lead instructor, a Seafood HACCP lead instructor, a Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI) and a PCQI Lead Instructor. He has earned several other HACCP certificates, including juice HACCP (Cornell University), seafood HACCP (University of Connecticut), Foreign Supplier Verification Program certification (FSPCA), and general HACCP (Texas A&M via IHA). The coolest certificates can be found here.
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2008 - 2014: Austin worked as an operations manager in the corporate structure of Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group, overseeing food safety for restaurants as diverse as Gramercy Tavern, The Modern at MoMA, and Shake Shack.
2013 to 2020: Austin ran Bulletproof! Food Safety: 614 repeat clients, more than 950 restaurant kitchens inspected, greater than 1,500 food workers trained. At Bulletproof, Austin also handled HACCP for breaded poultry, gelati, confections, smoked salmon, tortillas, fermented hot sauce, hot-filled salsa, ROP retail, imported bottled water, HPP’d pesto sauce, and lots of fruit and vegetable juices.
2020 onward: Austin formed (( ENDOCARP )) to address larger compliance needs in artisan manufacturing and consumer packaged goods.
Pro-women, pro-choice, anti-racist.
Enjoys gin and reading the New Yorker. Cat lover, dog devotee.
Happily married to Lisa. Alive & well in Wilmington, DE.
Tracy Slotkin is a 25 year veteran of the food industry, having been involved in all types of food production. She is passionate about food safety and quality management systems and assisting both new food entrepreneurs and larger scale manufacturers to achieve HACCP and SQF certification. She works with producers, makers, and chefs of all types to build a strong food safety culture within their organizations, ensuring they maintain compliant with regulations, preserve brand integrity and protect every consumer.
Besides her nearly lifelong obsession with cheese and charcuterie, she deeply loves her daughter Marley, her dachshund Cooper, British rock bands and British crime series old and new.