ISPAM Meeting Book

PRESENTER BIOS

PATRICE ARBAULT, BIOADVANTAGE CONSULTING PRESENTER: ANNUAL MEETING SYMPOSIUM FOR THE DETECTION OF VIRUSES

Patrice is an international food safety consultant at BioAdvantage Consulting (Lyon, France) what he created in 2005, working for the food industry and for the food diagnostic companies. In 2007, he founded a research microbiology lab, Nexidia (Dijon, France), specialized in the selection, adaptation of probiotic strains, and currently developing next probiotic generation for animal nutrition. He is serving in technical committees of various food method certification bodies, Afnor, MicroVal and AOAC. He is Adjunct Faculty at Texas Tech University at the college of Food and Meat Sciences.

TOM HAMMACK, FDA ISPAM SALMONELLA HARMONIZATION WORKING GROUP

Mr. Hammack has been research microbiologist with the Food and Drug Administration since 1990 and has served as Chief of the Microbial Methods Development Branch of CFSAN’s Division of Microbiology since 2009. He is a co-author of FDA’s Bacteriological Analytical Manual’s (BAM) Salmonella and

Food Sampling and Preparation of Sample Homogenate chapters. In addition to his role as a BAM Chapter author, he serves as the Chair of the BAM Council. His research has been concentrated on the development and validation of cultural methods for the detection and isolation of Salmonella from foods. Over the last 10 years, the emphasis of his research has been the detection and isolation of Salmonella from fresh produce. In addition to his work in the lab, Mr. Hammack has an interest in food microbiology methods validation. Since 2004, he has served as a General Referee (now Process Expert) for food microbiology for AOAC International. In that capacity, he has overseen the validation of numerous microbiological methods for bacterial pathogens, such as Salmonella , Listeria , and E. coli O157:H7 through AOAC International’s two methods validation programs: the Official Methods of Analysis and Research Institute Performance Tested Methods Programs. AOAC validated methods are used by FDA and commercial laboratories for the detection of pathogens in foods. Mr. Hammack also serves as Chair of the US Technical Advisory Group to ISO TC 34/SC 9. ISO TC 34/ SC9 is the committee from which all ISO food microbiological methods arise. He received his BS and MS degrees from the University of Maryland at College Park.