Experts
![]() (For assistance in contacting sources on deadline, call Jeannette Warnert at (559) 240-9850.)
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Richard Breitmeyer |
Livestock and poultry diseases, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease), West Nile virus, H1N1 influenza and exotic Newcastle disease. |
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Rob Atwill |
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 |
Biochemistry and molecular biology of plant-microbe interaction; diseases of orchard crops. |
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Christine Bruhn |
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. | |
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Michael Cahn |
Water quality and irrigation in the Salinas Valley. |
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Marita Cantwell |
Postharvest quality, physiology and handling (harvest, preparation, storage, transportation) of vegetables; quality and storage of fresh-cut products. |
Patricia Conrad |
Disease-causing microbes -- including Toxoplasma gondii, Cryptosporidium and Giardia -- that are transmitted between animals and humans. |
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Roberta Cook |
Impact of food safety concerns on the fresh produce industry and on the marketing of fresh produce. |
James Cullor |
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. |
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Shermain Hardesty |
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 |
Food-safety issues relating to the fruit, vegetable and nut industries, best ways to clean fruits and vegetables. | |
Sharon Hietala |
Clinical immunology and diagnostic techniques for infectious diseases in animals, strains of influenza, influenza surveillance, detection and diagnostic programs for animals in California. |
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Karen Jetter, Ph.D. |
Nutrition economist |
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Karen Klonsky |
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.) |
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Bob Krieger |
Biomonitoring human chemical exposures, pesticides and other chemical technologies, worker health and safety, risk characterization, mitigation, and public communication. Chemical risk perception. | |
Peggy Lemaux |
Techniques used in producing foods through biotechnology as well as the safety of eating these foods, and the regulatory structures governing them. | |
John Maas |
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.) |
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Dan Sumner |
Economics of food safety issues including |
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Trevor Suslow |
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. |
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Ken Tate |
Waterborne transport and fate of microbial pollutants in natural and agricultural landscapes, identification of |
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Carl Winter |
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. |