ASSOCIATIONS/ORGANIZATIONS: Refrigerated Foods Association (RFA), Marietta, Ga.
Charlotte Mason was named new communications director, tasked with to helping promote and publicize RFA via social media channels, the RFA website and in print. Mason is a recent graduate of Georgia Southern University, where she majored in public relations.
North American Meat Institute (NAMI), Washington, D.C. Betsy Booren, vice president of scientific affairs, left the organization to become a senior policy advisor at Olsson Frank and Weeda. Over the past seven years, Booren brought a science-based perspective to issues facing the meat industry, including food safety, human nutrition, animal health, biotechnology, food quality and processing, new technologies and public health initiatives. She was appointed in January 2015 as president of the Foundation for Meat and Poultry Research and Education, where she provided leadership in developing industry research priorities in food safety and human nutrition.