Elanco Names Scanga Senior Technical Consultant
11/06/2009 10:58AM
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Elanco Animal Health has announced the hiring of Dr. John Scanga as a senior technical consultant. In this role he will work with Elanco’s marketing and sales teams, providing technical support for the company’s Beef Business Unit, while also conducting product-related research. Scanga will work from his home base in Colo.
"I saw this as a great opportunity to become a part of a solid, science-based company,” says Scanga. “I’m excited to continue to work closely with the meat industry to deliver high quality, safe, affordable protein to consumers."
Most recently, Scanga was vice president of technical services, meat divison for IEH, Inc. in Seattle, Wash., providing consulting and technical assistance for processors of raw and ready-to-eat meat products, in addition to managing meat specific accounts. Areas of expertise include harvest floor best practices sanitary dressing, red meat quality, carcass chilling, tenderness management, electrical stimulation, carcass and subprimal video image analysis and carcass value optimization.
Scanga earned a doctorate in animal science, a master’s degree in meat science and a bachelor’s degree in animal science from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo. For a photo Dr. Scanga, click here.
Elanco is a global innovation-driven company that develops and markets products to improve animal health and food animal production in more than 100 countries. Elanco employs more than 2,000 people worldwide, with offices in more than 30 countries, and is a division of Eli Lilly and Company, a leading global pharmaceutical corporation. Additional information about Elanco is available at www.elanco.com.