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With a career that spans more than two decades across the food, medical device and chemical industries, Kristen has become a recognized voice in advancing analytical tools for environmental and food safety testing. Now global analytical sample preparation product manager at MilliporeSigma, she has led initiatives in air monitoring, gas chromatography consumables and workflows for emerging contaminants.

Her background ranges from early roles in food quality control and sanitation to overseeing solid phase extraction manufacturing and driving product innovation. Today, Kristen applies this breadth of expertise to one of the most pressing challenges in public health: the detection of PFAS in food and the environment. By shaping solutions that improve sample preparation and analytical accuracy, she helps laboratories worldwide generate the data needed to inform regulation, safeguard consumers and address the persistent threat of “forever chemicals”.