about ipwr

M. Margaret Barth, Ph.D., M.P.H., MBA

Chief Technical Officer
Responsible Source
Chicago, IL, USA

Dr. M. Margaret (Meg) Barth has more than 17 years experience as a mission-focused food industry leader developing strategies for product and supply chain performance, innovation, risk management and sustainable systems for produce suppliers of national and global foodservice organizations. Dr. Barth served on the faculty at University of Kentucky as an associate professor in food science and nutrition and her research program focused on evaluating emerging technologies on nutritional, market quality and microbial characteristics of fruit and vegetable products.

She served in the food industry as head of Research & Technology of a major supplier to national foodservice chains and led supply chain projects on product performance and food safety across produce suppliers in the US, as well as projects in Mexico and Asia. She developed the concept for a novel produce procurement organization that utilized an integrated approach to supply chain management and procurement of produce that included a sustainable practices program for benchmarking suppliers resulting in trade, government (EPA) and academia recognition of initiative.

Dr. Barth has served on numerous national and global customer technical advisory boards and is a past chair of the IFT Fruit & Vegetable Products division. Education and training includes Ph.D. Nutrition & Food Science, University of Illinois; MBA from Northwestern University/Kellogg School of Management; MPH from Illinois School of Public Health; SA8000 certification from Social Accountability International.