Researchers working in the Department of Food Science on Food Quality.

  • Senior Food Safety Extension Associate and Team Lead, Industrial Food Safety and Quality

Areas of Expertise

  • Training and technical support for food operations – HACCP, FSMA Preventive Controls (FSPCA), food defense, ServSafe, food microbiology, food processing, and food safety for volunteer organizations, farmers’ markets, and consumers
  • Control of food spoilage and foodborne pathogens
  • Quality systems – sanitation, allergens, environmental testing, sustainability and auditing
  • Food processing and preservation
  • Food supply chain – supplier control, traceability and recall
  • FSMA - Preventive controls for human food
  • FSMA - Preventive controls for animal feed
  • FSMA - Intentional Adulteration (IA)
  • Professor of Food Science
  • Food Safety Extension Specialist - Muscle Foods

Areas of Expertise

  • Food safety
  • Food microbiology
  • Foodborne pathogens
  • Antimicrobials
  • Edible films
  • Spoilage
  • Meat, poultry, seafood, muscle foods
  • HACCP
  • Sanitation
  • Lester Earl and Veronica Casida Career Development Professor of Food Safety
  • Associate Professor of Food Science

Areas of Expertise

  • Microbial Food Safety
  • Foodborne Pathogens
  • Genomic Epidemiology
  • Microbiomes in Food Systems
  • Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Director of E. coli Reference Center
  • Professor of Food Science

Areas of Expertise

  • Microbiology
  • Microbial pathogens
  • Molecular microbiology
  • Microbial genomics
  • Food Safety
  • Food Microbiology
  • Associate Professor Emeritus of Food Science
  • Division of Science, Berks College
  • Department of Food Science, University Park
  • Associate Research Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Dairy Food Processing & Quality
  • Dairy Food Safety
  • Sensory Analysis of Dairy Products
  • Artisanal Cheese
  • Value-Added Dairy Products
  • Professor of Food Science and Extension Specialist (I am retiring shortly and am not taking on any new students)

Areas of Expertise

  • Tracking Listeria monocytogenes in produce production and processing environments
  • Food safety validation of mushroom growing, packing, and processing.
  • L. monocytogenes in tree fruit packinghouses.
  • Farm food safety (Good Agricultural Practices) training
  • Hazards Analysis and Risk Based Preventive Controls training
  • Technical assistance to home and commercial food processors
  • Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)
  • Professor and Head of Food Science

Areas of Expertise

  • Microbiology
  • Dairy Products Processing
  • Ice Cream
  • Yogurt
  • Non-dairy Frozen Desserts
  • Assistant Professor of Food Science

Areas of Expertise

  • Food mycology
  • Mycotoxins
  • Toxicology
  • Genotype-phenotype interaction
  • Nutritional immunology