TTU Professor Appointed to National Committee on Food Safety

News Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: March 19, 2013
CONTACT: Leslie Cranford, leslie.cranford@ttu.edu
(806) 742-2136

Texas Tech Professor Appointed to National Committee on Food Safety

The Secretary of Agriculture has appointed a Texas Tech University professor to a national committee that will provide recommendations on microbial criteria of food.

Guy Loneragan, an epidemiologist and professor of food safety and public health in the Department of Animal and Food Science, will serve on the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods, providing information to the secretaries of the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services.

“It is an incredible honor and responsibility to be appointed to this committee,” Loneragan said. “Moreover, this appointment highlights the level of prominence of the internationally respected food safety program that Texas Tech receives. Texas Tech has assembled and invested in a collaborative team of researchers.  This appointment represents the combined accomplishments of this successful team.”

The committee provides impartial scientific advice to federal agencies to use in developing integrated food safety systems from farm to table and to ensure food safety in domestic and imported foods. This advice is used by the agencies to develop science-based policy that will improve the safety of the food that U.S. consumers buy and feed to their families.

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CONTACT: Leslie Cranford, Office of Communications and Marketing, Texas Tech University, (806) 742-2136 or leslie.cranford@ttu.edu.