Jeffrey Farber

University of Guelph, CRIFS, Department of Food Science
Guelph, ON
Canada

Biographical Sketch: Dr. Jeff Farber is currently employed as a Full Professor in the Department of Food Science at the University of Guelph, in Guelph, Ontario, where he is head of the Master’s Program in Food Safety and Quality Assurance (FSQA) and is also the Director of the Canadian Research Institute for Food Safety. He currently leads a team of about 10 researchers including graduate students, FSQA students, a post-doc and a research associate, who all do research on various aspects of microbial food safety. Dr. Farber previously worked at Health Canada, most recently as Director of the Bureau of Microbial Hazards, in the Food Directorate of Health Canada, where he led a group of about 60 people working in the areas of food safety research, risk assessment, policy, risk management and risk communication. Dr. Farber has over 150 publications, plus numerous Book Chapters and has edited 4 books. He was Associate Editor of the International Journal of Food Microbiology for many years and has been on a number of Journal Editorial Boards. Dr. Farber has been instrumental in advancing the development of policy approaches on emerging microbial food safety issues in Canada and at a global level. Dr. Farber is a Past-President of the International Association for Food Protection, and Treasurer of the International Commission on Microbiological Specifications for Foods (ICMSF). He is also a member of the Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Working Group of the New York Academy of Sciences. Dr. Farber also has extensive experience working at the international level with organizations such as Codex Alimentarius, WHO and FAO. Dr. Farber has received numerous personal and team awards, the most recent being a Science and Technology award from the Canadian Meat Council. He won one of the highest awards presented to Federal Public Health Officials, the Prime Minister’s Outstanding Achievement Award, for his work as the lead scientist for Health Canada on the deli-meat listeriosis outbreak.

Papers:
S40 The Pros and Cons of Microbial Models in Decision-making: A Regulator's Perspective
LL Learning Lab: An Interactive Experience
RT3 The Black Box of Qualitative Performance Standards for Meat and Poultry: The Drive to Quantitate Salmonella