To Support Your Stores and Restaurants

  with effective sanitation programs to 

help prevent food-borne illnesses.

We have food safety and sanitation experts on our staff to consult in these areas:

Individual snapshot biographies of our Quality Assurance Team experts follow.  Together they represent an experienced, talented team of professionals dedicated to upholding high standards of food safety and professionalism.

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Mr. Patrick Killorin, R.S.

Mr. Killorin has spent the past twenty-five years reviewing programs, testing products, and studying sanitation procedures in the Food Industry in order to develop well-organized and effective guidelines that would be useful in the curtailment of potential food borne hazards in a food processing facility.  

His personal goal is to present an economically feasible program which would guarantee that foods are produced, processed, and prepared in a clean and sanitary environment with a minimum of contamination.

His qualifications and credentials reflect the professionalism that has become part of the Patco , Inc. tradition:  

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Regulatory Affairs Manager

 Mr. James L. Sevchik

                                                  Prior to joining Patco Food Safety Consultants as Regulatory Affairs Manager, Jim Sevchik worked with the New York State Department of Agriculture for over 33 years.  His most recent position was Chief Inspector for the Division of  Food Safety and Inspection, where his duties included the supervision of field inspection activities for the Upstate District including oversight over field offices in Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, New York. 

Some of Jim’s past experiences that he will be drawing from to uphold & improve Patco’s Quality Assurance are:

In addition to the above experience, Jim was a commissioned officer with FDA and worked on numerous successful joint investigations with this agency during his career.  He received numerous awards during his tenure with the state including a Commissioner’s Special Citation from the FDA for his national training efforts on food labeling and food safety along with recognition for his involvement in Federal/State cooperative efforts.  He was recently honored with the Hammer Award by Vice President Gore’s National Partnership for Reinventing Government for developing a national training program that addressed imported products regulated by FDA. 

Jim was also recognized by FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations with a Commissioner’s Special Citation for his role in assisting with two cases of product diversion that lead to the arrest and conviction of three individuals.

His professional memberships, past and present, include:  

Jim is often a featured speaker at seminars and training programs on consumer protection issues and his writings on food labeling were published in the Food and Drug Law Journal.   He has also had consumer protection articles published in the journals of the Association of Food and Drug Officials and Association of Milk and Food Sanitarians.   

His additional professional activities include:

Credentials speak for themselves.  Jim has a B. S. degree in Food Science/Nutrition Education from the State University of New York at Buffalo , in addition to completing numerous courses at Cornell University , the State of New York , Dept. of Civil Service, the USFDA /USDA and N.Y. State Police.  He is a licensed Certified Pesticide Applicator  by N.Y.S. Dept. of Environmental Conservation, and a N.Y. State Registered Sanitarian.  

Jim recently was awarded the Harvey W. Wiley Award by the Association of Food and Drug Officials in recognition of outstanding service and devotion to duty in administering the Food and Drug Laws of the United States , the highest award given by this professional association.  Additional awards include: C.A.S.A. Award, Commissioners Merit Award, William Hickey Award, and an Award of Merit from the International Association of Milk, Food and Environmental Sanitarians for outstanding service in food safety.  

Jim’s schedule now allows him the time to assist AFDO with their training endeavors.  He previously served as Training Director, where he designed and administered training programs on a national level that addressed public health and regulatory issues in the food, drug, medical device and product safety fields.   

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Quality Assurance Technician

Mr. Gerald Prentice

                                                   Gerry worked 16 years with the State of Maine , Dept. of Agriculture, Food & Rural Resources, most recently as Supervisor of the Division of Regulations, before joinging Patco.   Some of his responsibilities there included sanitation/safety inspections of 800 to 900 food processing and/or retailing facilities, including: all food processors except USDA inspected meat plants; home food processors; food storage facilities of all types; mobile vending units of raw and/or prepared foods; and retail food establishments of all sizes and designs.

His inspection duties included enforcing laws and supporting regulations under the Maine Food Law, training personnel in food handling techniques, advising on state, as well as FDA, requirements such as the current Model Food Codes. He also performed Seafood HACCP inspections of seafood processing facilities under sub contract for the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. This included doing detailed reports and recommendations concerning follow-ups.