Experts

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	Richard Breitmeyer Director, California Animal Health & Food Safety Laboratory System (530) 752-8709 rbreitmeyer@cahfs.ucdavis.edu	Livestock and poultry diseases, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease), West Nile virus, H1N1 influenza and exotic Newcastle disease.
	Rob Atwill Cooperative Extension specialist Veterinary Medicine Extension – UC Davis (530) 754-2154 ratwill@ucdavis.edu	Food and waterborne transport of pathogens from domestic and wild animals to humans; risk factors for animal infection; pathogens of particular interest include Cryptosporidium, Giardia, E. coli O157, Salmonella; use of bacterial indicators as proxies for pathogens; development of beneficial management practices for pathogen reduction on livestock operations and produce fields.
	Richard Bostock Professor of Plant Pathology Director of the National Plant Diagnostic Network Western Region Department of Plant Pathology UC Davis (530) 752-0308 rmbostock@ucdavis.edu	Biochemistry and molecular biology of plant-microbe interaction; diseases of orchard crops.
	Christine Bruhn Cooperative Extension food marketing specialist UC Davis (530) 752-2774, cell (530) 219-2888 cmbruhn@ucdavis.edu	Consumer attitudes toward food safety, quality, and wholesomeness, food labels, and new production and processing technologies, public reaction to food-borne illness outbreaks and how consumers can best guard against food-borne illnesses.
	Michael Cahn Cooperative Extension farm advisor Monterey County (831) 759-7350 mdcahn@ucdavis.edu	Water quality and irrigation in the Salinas Valley.
	Marita Cantwell CE Vegetable Specialist UC Davis (530) 752-7305, lab (530) 754-6124 micantwell@ucdavis.edu	Postharvest quality, physiology and handling (harvest, preparation, storage, transportation) of vegetables; quality and storage of fresh-cut products.
	Patricia Conrad Professor of Parasitology UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine (530) 752-7210 paconrad@ucdavis.edu	Disease-causing microbes -- including Toxoplasma gondii, Cryptosporidium and Giardia -- that are transmitted between animals and humans.
	Roberta Cook Extension Marketing Economist Agricultural and Resource Economics UC Davis (530) 752-1531 cook@primal.ucdavis.edu http://cook.ucdavis.edu	Impact of food safety concerns on the fresh produce industry and on the marketing of fresh produce.
	James Cullor Professor and Director UC Davis Dairy Food Safety Laboratory cell (559) 936-0510 jscullor@ucdavis.edu	Animal health and welfare, public health, food defense, ecosystem health related to pathogens that might be on the farm and cause public health concerns. Milk safety/quality, antibiotic residues, new technologies used for food safety interventions.
	Gail Feenstra Food systems analyst UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program UC Davis (530) 752-8408 gwfeenstra@ucdavis.edu	Food safety related to local food systems, i.e., how communities can "shorten the supply lines" between farm and table using produce from local farmers, how local food sources reduce the need to rely on transportation, and how local, seasonal food systems contribute to food security.
	Bonnie Fernandez-Fenaroli Executive director Center for Produce Safety UC Davis (530)757-5777 bfernandez@cps.ucdavis.edu	Produce industry involvement in food safety research.
	Shermain Hardesty Cooperative Extension Economist Director of UC Small Farm Program UC Davis (530) 752-0467 shermain@primal.ucdavis.edu	Small farms and food safety; food safety compliance costs; food safety in direct marketing channels, including farmers markets, CSAs, farm stands and others.
	Linda Harris Cooperative Extension food microbiologist UC Davis Associate Director for Research at the Western Institute for Food Safety and Security (530) 754-9485 ljharris@ucdavis.edu	Food-safety issues relating to the fruit, vegetable and nut industries, best ways to clean fruits and vegetables.
	Sharon Hietala Professor California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System (Headquartered at UC Davis) (530) 752-4739 skhietala@ucdavis.edu	Clinical immunology and diagnostic techniques for infectious diseases in animals, strains of influenza, influenza surveillance, detection and diagnostic programs for animals in California.
	Karen Jetter, Ph.D. Assistant Research Economist Agricultural & Resource Economics UC Davis (530) 754-8756 jetter@primal.ucdavis.edu	Nutrition economist
	Karen Klonsky Cooperative Extension specialist Agricultural & Resource Economics (530) 752-3563 klonsky@primal.ucdavis.edu	Information that permits the estimating the financial loss to growers when a major a food safety outbreak occurs (number of acres in production, typical farming practices, costs of production and expected income.)
	Bob Krieger Extension Toxicologist Personal Chemical Exposure Program Department of Entomology Environmental Toxicology Graduate Program (951) 827-3724 bob.krieger@ucr.edu	Biomonitoring human chemical exposures, pesticides and other chemical technologies, worker health and safety, risk characterization, mitigation, and public communication. Chemical risk perception.
	Peggy Lemaux Cooperative Extension Specialist Department of Plant and Microbial Biology UC Berkeley (510) 642-1589 lemauxpg@berkeley.edu	Techniques used in producing foods through biotechnology as well as the safety of eating these foods, and the regulatory structures governing them.
	John Maas Cooperative Extension veterinarian UC Davis (530) 752-3990 jmaas@ucdavis.edu	Foot-and-mouth disease and mad cow disease/BSE diagnosis, testing and control systems, U.S. cattle-tracking methods and disease-surveillance programs. (He also has been an active cattle rancher for 35 years.)
	Dan Sumner Director Agricultural Issues Center UC Davis (530) 752-1668 dasumner@ucdavis.edu	Economics of food safety issues including traceability.
	Trevor Suslow Cooperative Extension specialist UC Davis (530) 754-8313 tvsuslow@ucdavis.edu	Preharvest to postharvest safety of fruits and vegetables including transportation and distribution. Environmental sources and survival of bacterial pathogens. Industry practices, commodities, organic, small-scale to global sourcing. Postharvest washing and cooling. Produce Safety Alliance training for Produce Safety Regulations. Industry preventive control programs and audit protocols.
	Ken Tate Cooperative Extension rangeland watershed specialist (530) 754-8988 kwtate@ucdavis.edu	Waterborne transport and fate of microbial pollutants in natural and agricultural landscapes, identification of management risk factors associated with increased microbial pollution of waterbodies, and identification of management practices to reduce risk of microbial pollution of waterbodies.
	Carl Winter Toxicologist Director UC FoodSafe UC Davis (530) 752-5448 ckwinter@ucdavis.edu	Food toxicology, focused primarily upon pesticide residues and naturally occurring toxins. Risk assessment of chemical and microbiological hazards in foods. Risk communication. Food safety education using music and other novel approaches.