Patrick Mies is the Director of Regulatory Affairs at National Beef Packing Company, where he manages all regulatory compliance issues related to three beef slaughter/processing plants, 2 case ready facilities, a beef grinding establishment and a foodservice facility. Patrick has spent his entire career in beef food safety starting in 2003 after graduating from Texas A&M University going to work at Booth Creek Natural Foods as a QA manager. From there Patrick was named the Director of Quality Assurance at Harris Ranch Beef in charge of animal welfare, export programs, quality assurance and food safety. He then went to work for Elanco Food Solutions as a Senior Technical consultant in charge of industry applicable research on food safety products from farm to fork in the protein industry prior to National Beef. Patrick has served as a Scientific Affairs Committee chairperson for NAMI as well the BIFSCO executive committee.