Tomasz Pyjor

Tomasz Pyjor graduated Inland Fishery at the University of Agriculture and Technology, Olsztyn, Poland. Since then he has worked in fish processing, first small scale and local, then 10 years in a factory which had so called “licence to export to the EU” (before Poland joined the EU) and then 20 years in the biggest salmon processing plant- Mowi Poland.

He successfully applied for the first IFS certificate in fish processing in Poland.

Factory he works for processes 100 k tons of raw material processing it into various (smoked, raw, marinated) RTE and RTC products. He started as Production Manager and for the last 6 years as Quality Director of Mowi CE, managing quality in 3 factories, subcontracted factories, and Sales Business Units.

Every second smoked salmon in Germany and 25% of all smoked salmon in EU comes from Mowi Poland. Factories have excellent Listeria results, 30 times better than the rest of industry (based on RASFF reports).

The large scale of processing, numerous audits, demanding customers, retailers and markets (US included) challenges his daily work. Listeria program which he conducts, committed and experienced team, in house lab are the key success components.

He has deep knowledge about industry thanks to the fact that he was Vice-President of European Salmon Smokers Association (2014 – 2016) and he has been board member (since 2019) and Vice-President (since 2023) of PSPR (Polish Association of Fish Processors). On behalf of PSPR, he participated in the work of the AIPCE Working Group on Food Law and consults Food Law with Polish authorities.

He also conducted substantive consultations of “Code of Good Production Practices in Fish Processing” (Szulecka O. (ed.), 2020), published by MIR-PIB.