***** C. D. ***** is President of ***** ***** Consulting and former Professor in the Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Retailing, and he is Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Food Science and Human Nutrition and Large Animal Clinical Sciences at Michigan State University (MSU). He was former directors of the Food Safety Policy Center and the National Food Safety and Toxicology Center at MSU. At both these centers, Dr. ***** coordinated research in microbiology, toxicology, epidemiology, risk assessment, social science, and policy in the area of food safety, distance education programs, and outreach in the community. Before that he was in the Bureau of Microbial Hazards, Health Products and Food Branch, Health Canada, Ottawa where he was a research scientist for 33 years working on methods development for pathogens in foods, foodborne disease investigation and reporting, costs and surveillance of disease, illnesses caused by seafood toxins, and risk assessment of foodborne pathogens. He also helped develop risk management strategies for the Department including producing videos and pamphlets on food safety education. He recent research has been on Listeria and E. coli O157 transfer coefficient and modeling projects, hygiene in child care centers, schools, and elder care facilities. He is also collaborating with agencies in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia on food safety issues He is also collaborating with agencies in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia on food safety issues; he also has research links to China, Philippines, Spain, Uganda, the United Kingdom and Canada. He has published extensively including 11 recent papers on food workers and hand hygiene. He is active in the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) and other organizations, and speaks and organizes symposia at national and international meetings. He is associate editor for the Journal of Food Science and is a frequent reviewer of manuscripts submitted to several different scientific journals. He has been an expert witness both for the plaintiff and defendant in foodborne illness cases.
He has received the Government of Canada Distinctive Service Award for extraordinary teamwork and support to the Science and Technology Community; Recipient of the Excellence in Science Award for 1998 by Health Canada; Deputy Minister’s Award of Team Excellence for the work done in promoting the Fight BAC! Campaign in Canada; the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada Gold Medal for Pure and Applied Science; and he is Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the IAFP, and the MSU University Outreach & Engagement. He is also an Honorary Life member of the IAFP. He is a graduate of Glasgow University with a B. Sc. degree in Bacteriology and a PhD degree in bacterial systematics.