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Don Schaffner Elected as Secretary
he International Association for Food Protection welcomes Dr. Donald W. Schaffner to the Executive Board as Secretary. Dr. Schaffner will take office at the conclusion of the Awards Banquet at IAFP 2010, in Anaheim, California. By accepting this position, Dr. Schaffner has made a five-year commitment to the Association and will begin his term as President in 2014.
Dr. Schaffner is Extension Specialist in Food Science and Professor at Rutgers University. He also serves as the Director of the Center for Advanced Food Technology. His research interests include quantitative microbial risk assessment and predictive food microbiology. Dr. Schaffner has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and abstracts. He has been the recipient of more than $5 million in grants and contracts, largely in the form of competitive national grants. Dr. Schaffner has educated thousands of Food Industry professionals through numerous short courses and workshops in the United States and more than a dozen countries around the world. Dr. Schaffner was awarded the IAFP Elmer Marth Educator Award in 2009 for outstanding service to the public and IAFP in the area of food safety and food protection education. He also received the Sustained Research and Impact Award in 2008 from the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and NJ Agricultural Experiment Station in recognition of research and scholarship that has provided significant contributions to his profession, and contributions that have had direct measurable impact on the communities he serves. Dr. Schaffner has served on a variety of national and international expert committees. He served on the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Standing Committee on Use of Public Health Data in FSIS Food Safety Programs and the Committee to Review the Use of Scientific Criteria and Performance Standards for Safe Food. He chaired two expert workshops on microbial risk assessment for the World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Expert reports offering guidelines for Microbial Exposure Assessment and Risk Characterization arising from those two workshops were recently published by FAO/WHO. He also served on a number of Institute of Food Technologist (IFT) expert panels working on projects for FDA including: development and implementation of a risk-ranking framework to evaluate potential high threat microbiological agents, toxins, and chemicals in food; evaluation and definition of potentially hazardous foods; and quantification of the destruction kinetic of alternative processing technologies. Dr. Schaffner also served two terms on the US National Advisory Committee on Microbial Criteria for Foods (NACMCF), co-authoring documents on Parameters for Determining Inoculated Pack/Challenge Study Protocols and Consumer Guidelines for the Safe Cooking of Poultry Products. Dr. Schaffner is active in several scientific associations including IAFP, IFT, Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), American Society for Microbiology (ASM), and Conference for Food Protection (CFP). Dr. Schaffner is an Editor for the ASM Journal, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, and serves on CFP, Council III – Science and Technology. His recent service to IAFP includes membership on the Journal of Food Protection Editorial Board, IAFP Foundation Committee, Program Committee, Organizing Committee for IAFP’s Second European Symposium on Food Safety, GMA Food Safety Award Jury and Nominating Committee. He currently serves as Vice Chairman for the IAFP Membership Committee. Dr. Schaffner holds a B.S. in Food Science from Cornell University and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Food Science and Technology from the University of Georgia.

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