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Food Safety Expert Witnesses

Every year it is estimated that 10% of people around the world become ill after consuming food that is contaminated, with 420,000 dying as a result. Food safety refers to the handling, preparing and storing of food is a way to decrease the risk of becoming sick from foodborne illnesses. Food inspections and improved agricultural and consumer education on food safety will help strengthen enforcement of food standards and improve hygienic practices to prevent illness. Our food safety experts have worked as toxicologists, hospitality professionals, food safety consultants, food manufacturing professionals, professors, doctors, microbiologists, and more. These experts specialize in:

  • Poultry processing
  • Functional foods and obesity
  • Nutraceuticals
  • Human nutrition
  • Food safety training
  • Foodborne illness investigation
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Surveillance of foodborne disease
  • Seafood toxins
  • Foodborne pathogens
  • Microbiology
  • Bacteriology
  • Retail Foodservice operations
  • HACCP
  • Restaurants
  • Product development
With hundreds of years of combined experience, our food safety experts have successfully testified for both plaintiffs and defense in a variety of cases and are prolific international authors and lecturers. Their published works span topics that include reducing Listeria, processed poultry products, high protein diets, obesity, regulation, carcinogenesis, toxicity testing, distribution, meat animal composition, fabrication of meat products, and illness in tourist hotels.  

Here are a few of our favorite Food Safety Expert Witnesses:

I have 6 years of experience, and specialize in the field of human nutrition with specific knowledge in the areas of nutraceuticals, functional foods and obesity. I have published on such topics as high protein diets, conjugated linoeleic acid (CLA) and obesity. I am an active researcher in the field of human health and nutrition. The applicability of foods to enhance health and wellness is a fascinating field and one that I stay current with. Certain foods contain bioactive compounds that have further value either as a nutraceutical pill or as a component of a food that will further enhance…

 

I have 12 years of experience and specialize in the field of poultry science, with specific knowledge of poultry processing and food safety. I have published on such topics as poultry meat quality, reducing salmonella and campylobacter in poultry products, and reducing listera in further processed poultry products.

 

I have 38 years of experience in the field of toxicology, with specific knowledge of food safety, biotechnology and chemistry. I have published on such topics as threshold of regulation, carcinogenesis and toxicity testing. I have testified on food safety, toxicology and food regulation.

 

I have 40 years of experience, and specialize in the field of food and restaurants with specific knowledge in the areas of operations, product development and food safety. I have published on such topics as new product development, operations and menu engineering. I have testified on distribution, food safety and food borne illnesses. I am known in the food industry as a “marketing techno-chef”, combining the art of the chef with the science of a food technologist. The odds are very good that you have eaten at least one thing that I have developed!

 

I have 45 years of experience in the field of meat science and food safety, with specific knowledge of food microbiology, meat animal composition, and HACCP. I have published on such topics as food microbiology, meat animal composition, and fabrication of meat products.

 

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I have 26 years of experience, and specialize in the field of food science with specific knowledge in the areas of food processing, food quality control and food safety. I have published on such topics as wine color stability, wine color analysis and wine chemistry.

 

I have 30 years of experience, and specialize in the field of food science and food safety with specific knowledge in the areas of food safety, imported foods and food processing, packaging and storage. I have published on such topics as food safety, food analysis, several chapters in books related to food safety.

 

I have 40 years of experience and specialize in the field of food safety with specific knowledge of hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP), food poisoning and illness investigation. I have published on such topics as HACCP, food safety culture and food poisoning. I have testified on food poisoning, illness in tourist hotels and legal compliance.

 

I have 38 years of experience and specialize in the field of food safety with specific knowledge in the areas of regulatory compliance, foodborne illness investigation and food safety training. I have published on such topics as food safety training. I have testified on foodborne illness and wrongful death from foodborne illness.

 

I have 20 years of experience, and specialize in the field of food safety with specific knowledge in the areas of bacteriology, food safety training and retail food service operations. I have published on such topics as E. coli and Salmonella in fresh spinach, food safety for non-English speakers and online food safety training for restaurants. I have testified on foodborne illness outbreaks, food safety training and personal injury due to restaurant equipment. My research was recently reported in the largest international food safety blog.

 

I have 45 years of experience, and specialize in the field of microbiology and food safety with specific knowledge in the areas of foodborne pathogens, seafood toxins and surveillance of foodborne disease. I have published on such topics as food worker hygiene, the epidemiology of disease, costs caused by pathogens and seafood toxins and risk assessment of foodborne disease. I have testified 22 times on topics such as E. coli in ground beef, salmonella in catered food and ciguatera poisoning from tropical fish in a restaurant. My career has spanned about 45 years working in three settings: government, academia and…

 

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Food Safety Workshops

A few of the courses and workshops led by our Food Safety experts:

  • Genetically Modified Foods