Ohio State University Food Safety Programs

Food Safety teaching, outreach, and research programs at Ohio State can be found in multiple departments, colleges. Key faculty at Ohio State with active food safety research, outreach, and teaching programs include:

Valente Alvarez, Professor, Department of Food Science and Technology, Key words: Food engineering, Dairy

V M Balasubramaniam, Professor, Department of Food Science and Technology, Key words: Food engineering, High-pressure processing

Lynn Knipe, Associate Professor, Department of Food Science and Technology, Key words: Meat safety

Ken Lee, Professor, Department of Food Science and Technology, Key words: Food innovation

Jianrong Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science and Technology, Key words: Norovirus, Paramyxovirus

Richard Linton, Professor, Department of Food Science and Technology, Key words: Non-thermal processing, Listeria monocytogenes

Melvin Pascall, Associate Professor, Department of Food Science and Technology, Key words: Food packaging, Sanitation

Luis Rodriguez-Saona, Associate Professor, Department of Food Science and Technology, Key words: Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

Hua Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Food Science and Technology, Key words: Antibiotic resistance, Dairy, Starter culture, Listeria monocytogenes, Biofilm, Rapid detection

Ahmed Yousef, Professor, Department of Food Science and Technology, Key words: Antimicrobial peptides, Ozone application, Microbial lethality

Gonul Kaletunc, Associate Professor, Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Key words: High-pressure processing, Extrusion processing

Sudhir Sastry, Professor, Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Key words: Ohmic heating, Moderate electric field processing

Zhongtang Yu, Assistant Professor, Department of Animal Science, Key words: Gut microbiota; Manure processing

Renukaradhya Gourapura, Assistant Professor, OARDC Food Animal Health Research Program, Key words: Mucosal immunology, Vaccine

Daral Jackwood, Professor, OARDC Food Animal Health Research Program, Key words: Infectious bursal disease virus, Poultry

Chang-Won Lee, Associate Professor, OARDC Food Animal Health Research Program, Key words: Avian influenza virus

Jeffrey LeJeune, Associate Professor, OARDC Food Animal Health Research Program, Key words: Escherichia coli O157, Preharvest safety control

Gireesh Rajashekara, Assistant Professor, OARDC Food Animal Health Research Program, Key words: Campylobacter jejuni

Linda Saif, Professor, OARDC Food Animal Health Research Program, Key words: Rotavirus

Yehia Saif, Professor, OARDC Food Animal Health Research Program, Key words: Avian influenza virus

Qiuhong Wang, Research Scientist, OARDC Food Animal Health Research Program, Key words: Norovirus, Calicivirus

Wondwossen Gebreyes, Professor, Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, Key words: Foodborne pathogen, Antimicrobial resistance

Armando Hoet, Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, Key words: Antibiotic resistance, Epidemiology

Paivi Rajala-Schultz, Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, Key words: Bovine mastitis, Antimicrobial resistance

Thomas Wittum, Professor, Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, Key words: Bovine virus control, Infectious disease in food animal

Timothy Buckley, Associate Professor, COPH-Environmental Health Science, Key words: Human exposure research

Jiyoung Lee, Assistant Professor, COPH-Environmental Health Science, Key words: Pathogen transmission, Water quality, Rapid detection, Fresh produce safety

Lydia Medeiros, Professor, Department of Human Nutrition, Key words: Food safety education, Listeria monocytogenes

Sally Miller, Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, Key words: Vegetable pathology, Etiology

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