Food Safety Expert Witnesses
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What is a food safety expert witness?
Food safety expert witness candidates typically have a PhD and extensive experience in food science, FDA regulations, and/or food manufacturing. A food safety expert witness should feel comfortable explaining regulations, processes and procedures to a judge and jury. A food safety expert witness should be familiar with FDA regulation and guidelines, as well as food service and public health inspection rules.
What types of cases require a food safety expert witness?
Food safety entails the handling, preparation, and storage of food in a manner that helps prevent foodborne illness. It encompasses food labeling, food hygiene, food additives and pesticide residues, as well as policies and guidelines for food inspection.
Food safety expert witness case examples
Cahn Litigation Services has performed many searches for food safety experts, providing candidates for each case to the specifications provided by the law firm. Representative matters that Cahn Litigation Services has placed expert witnesses for have involved:
- hospitality industry food safety standards and regulatory compliance,
- food contamination / food poisoning / foodborne illness (i.e., e. coli, salmonella, listeria),
- food service operations in the health care industry,
- hospitality management and food safety training,
- food manufacturing and food processing,
- Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP),
- food microbiology risk assessment,
- consumer product food labeling, and
- supply chain issues.
What litigation support work might a food safety expert witness be expected to perform?
Expert witness services by a food safety specialist could include food product analyses, facility inspections, research and authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, depositions, and expert witness testimony in the courtroom. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request a food safety expert with prior testimony experience. In addition, an attorney may seek a food industry consultant or toxicologist for pre-litigation work.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a food safety expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Food Safety Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Food Safety experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Food Safety landscape.
Expert Witness #260332
HACCP Stands for Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point. HACCP is an internationally recognized system for reducing the risk of safety hazards in food. An HACCP System requires that potential hazards are identified and controlled at specific points in the process.
Following a career in the public and private sectors, this expert launched a consulting firm, serving as President and CEO and specializing in food safety and health policy, and regulatory science. This expert has had senior leadership roles in the public and private sectors. During this expert's career in the food industry, this expert served as a director in supply chain management and quality systems. In these roles, this expert was an integral player in the care and management of perishable produce from the vendor through to manufacturing or service in a restaurant. This expert worked closely with multiple companies and regulatory agencies in the safe handling, storage, transport, and service of fresh produce - including strawberries.
In addition to responsibilities for food safety, this expert had a leadership role in designing and reviewing traceability programs for food products in national and international transport in quality and food safety leadership roles; and as part of the development of Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA) regulations, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems, and ISO 9000 quality management systems. This expert reviewed various temperature tracking tools and used several different systems in various positions. Further, as a successful consultant, this expert has had to review procedures and data for temperature tracking; this expert is well familiar with the industry's needs and available tools for temperature control. This expert has worked with most commodities and is highly familiar with the standard shelf life of perishable food items, and the impact of temperature and humidity on food quality and safety.
Prior to joining the public sector, this expert worked for a regulatory agency for meat and poultry. There this expert led the global development for the principles of HACCP, and played key roles in the adoption of HACCP as a regulatory tool and the development of the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards. This expert has also worked for two science-based trade associations.
This expert received a doctoral degree, Masters of Science and undergraduate degree and is a
Registered Dietitian. This expert is also a Fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists.
This expert has extensive prior litigation experience including a significant number of depositions and one trial testimony.
Start Food Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #260482
This expert brings to the table many years’ experience of bringing fundamental research through to practical implementation and full commercialization – based on technologies ranging from biomedical biosensors through to smart wound dressings and sensors for use within the food, water and environmental monitoring industries. This expert’s career to date has spanned academic departments of Chemistry, Medicine, Biotechnology, Materials Science and Engineering across every part of the University sector - with this being reflected in publications and ongoing research interests.
This expert’s research career has been focused towards sensors for food chain, medical and environmental applications. This expert is the author of >130 publications spanning areas of sensors, data transmission and food chain supply logistics and food safety having worked with agri-food and sensor- oriented companies.
This expert can bring extensive experience of acting as an expert witness in patent trials and arbitration cases.
Start Food Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #258485
This expert is primarily a food safety expert and as such has become familiar with regulatory requirements for clean and sterile laboratories and manufacturing/processing facilities. One of this expert's core expertise areas is the effectiveness of cleaning and sanitation programs
Start Food Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #224221
This expert is known internationally as one of the top experts on kinetics of reactions related to loss in food quality, nutrient degradation and pathogen growth and death kinetics.
This expert is also well known for teaching, working with and mentoring Ph.D. students, post-docs and visiting scientists. This expert has helped over many mentees gain faculty positions around the world, most of whom are doing research on reaction kinetics.
This expert is the author or co-author of over 280 scientific refereed research articles, 18 textbooks, 78 book chapters, eight patents and more than 100 other semi-technical articles. This expert has 14 refereed research papers, books or chapters and reviews that have been cited more than 200 times in other research papers or books, two at over 600 times and six others between 300-400 times, another five between 200-300 times and 30 more between 100-200. This expert’s research group has published an average of 10 research papers a year, including work in the Journal of Food Science, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Journal of Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Sciences, Analyst, Journal of the Royal Chemical Society, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Food Chemistry, Journal of Food Protection and Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition.
This expert’s research has been supported by grants from the Department of Homeland Security, the US Center of Excellence, as well as grants from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Additionally, this expert has received grants from the American Egg Board, Almond Board, Dairy Research Inc., and the Beef Council.
This expert’s Areas of Research include
Water activity
Food stability
Food safety
Shelf life testing
Shelf life dating
RFID tags
Time-Temperature Integrator Tags
Food labeling
Contaminants in food
Bioterrorism
Food law
Glass Transition Phenomena
In addition to academic work and research, this expert serves as Chief Scientist at a company that makes smart sensors used to monitor temperature or both temperature and freshness. The company’s patent and copyright intellectual property portfolio centers around radio frequency sensor identification devices, labels, tags and liners, radio frequency data capture software, cloud services and analytics. The IP also includes systems, software and methods for using the above tools for managing perishables in the cold chain and for tracking wear-and-tear of non-perishable items throughout their life or warranty period.
This expert has prior patent litigation experience and has been deposed and testified before a jury. Additionally, this expert has served as an expert for litigation in a case involving Time-Temperature Integrator (TTI) shelf life tags.
Start Food Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #209780
This food safety and food handling expert has an extensive background in food safety and food handling, taught food safety for over 20 years, and has over 40 years of experience in restaurants, health care, food processing, casinos, and the hospitality industry.
This expert provides litigation support and expert witness services involving food safety and HACCP, foodborne illness, and quality assurance in restaurants, country clubs, schools, supermarkets, and food manufacturers. This expert specializes in preventing restaurant accidents, incident investigations, ADA etiquette, and chemical safety.
Start Food Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #270325
This food safety expert holds a Ph.D. in Food Microbiology and has over 35 years of experience in food safety and quality, spanning laboratory research through senior food safety leadership. This expert has held senior food safety, regulatory affairs, and global food safety roles with major food manufacturers, a prominent industry trade association, and a major quick-service restaurant corporation. This expert earned a Ph.D. in Food Microbiology from a well-regarded university and has served on prominent national food safety advisory committees, industry food safety councils, emergency response task forces, food defense task forces, and industry groups defining sanitary design principles.
Throughout this expert's career addressing food safety and quality, regulatory requirements and responses, contamination troubleshooting, sampling and testing schemes, training and education for corporate leaders and plant employees, food safety culture, traceability, and lot control, Listeria control has been a key focus because of the specific growth parameters and niches associated with Listeria. Strategic control of Listeria remains crucial in manufacturing within refrigerated, frozen, snack, grocery, flavor, and mills platforms. Listeria has proven to be a public health issue throughout the supply chain, from manufacturing to retail.
As a microbiologist for a major packaged food company when Listeria became a prominently recognized problem in refrigerated meats and unpasteurized cheeses, this expert's work addressed early testing and detection as new control strategies began for this pathogen. From that time, the number of foods associated with Listeria continued to expand as knowledge expanded.
While serving in a senior regulatory affairs role at a prominent meat industry trade association, this expert coordinated equipment and facility design sanitary standards, in large part to address Listeria and pathogenic E. coli control. As a senior food safety leader for a major quick-service restaurant corporation, food service's role in Listeria control and testing was a priority.
Start Food Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #272171
This food safety and contamination expert has over 35 years' experience in professional food safety microbiology and holds a B.Sc. in Bacteriology and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Food Science with a focus on microbiological safety, all from a well-regarded public university. This expert subsequently spent roughly a decade involved in microbiological troubleshooting in over 400 factories while serving as a laboratory manager at a variety of laboratory locations for a food safety laboratory group.
This expert later served as an Assistant Professor with a university center for food safety and department of food science. This expert remains an Adjunct Assistant Professor with a university center for food safety and department of food science, and is also Adjunct Faculty with a university national center focused on food safety and toxicology. This expert has published articles on a wide variety of food microbiology topics, designed challenge studies, CCP validation, growth studies, and shelf-life studies, developed on-site private and off-site public workshops and lectures, and provided training in food safety microbiology, quality assurance, and quality control.
Over the past 35 years, this expert has investigated many instances of Listeria contamination during hundreds of food processing facility visits, mostly in the context of production facilities and some in the food service area. This expert has also written extensively on Listeria control and testing.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Food Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #273109
This food safety and public health expert holds an MD and founded and leads an internationally recognized food safety consultancy, with over 30 years of medical and food safety research and experience. This expert brings global food safety and public health expertise, with in-depth knowledge and real-world experience in both government and industry, including senior roles with international food and beverage companies and government agencies in the United States and Canada.
The consultancy provides guidance on best practices in operational, regulatory, and reputational risk mitigation, including food safety, rapid response, environmental controls, supply chain management, standards and regulations, food safety culture, vulnerability assessments and training, public health, and related areas.
This expert is an internal medicine physician and infectious disease physician with specific knowledge of foodborne illness, and has served in senior medical officer roles involving food safety inspection and regulatory oversight. This expert has a deep understanding of regulations and current practices around food safety in restaurants and retail settings.
This expert has published extensively and is internationally recognized for public health expertise in food safety and research in infectious diseases. This expert is a sought-after speaker, a regular guest on national news programs, and serves on boards and food safety advisory groups for major food manufacturers.
This expert has experience as an expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Food Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #285925
This food safety expert is an expert witness and food safety consultant with over 30 years of experience, including senior leadership responsibility for assuring food safety in thousands of food facilities, including retail establishments, through a state Department of Health.
This expert also served as a Commissioned Officer with FDA enforcing FDA requirements in food establishments and was previously standardized by FDA to train and standardize state and local officials in enforcement of the FDA Model Food Code. This expert is also a past president of a national food and drug officials association and is an experienced expert witness, having worked on over 20 food safety cases, written expert reports, and testified at depositions.
Start Food Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #286665
This food manufacturing and choking hazard expert has over four decades of experience in the food industry, specializing in creating and supporting food safety and quality programs.
This expert has created and implemented hazard analysis and food safety standards, auditing programs, and related processes for bakeries, restaurants, and other facilities that handle, manufacture, or sell food and food products.
This expert is certified as a consultant on packaging and food manufacturing through a recognized food safety certification program benchmarked by a global food safety initiative and used across various food sectors. This expert also serves as a forensic analyst and expert witness.
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