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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.