Erin Crowley

Q Laboratories, Inc.
Cincinnati, OH
USA

Biographical Sketch: Erin Crowley is the Chief Scientific Officer at Q Laboratories, Inc in Cincinnati, Ohio. Prior to this, she was the Microbiology Research and Development Supervisor at Q Laboratories, Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio since 2006. For the past 11 years, Erin and her R&D team have served as an independent third-party laboratory with a primary focus on providing high quality method validation for microbiological rapid detection methods. These validations include Independent laboratory evaluations for pathogen detection, qualitative methods and confirmatory biochemical assays for AOAC Official Methods of Analysis, AOAC Research Institute Performance Tested Methods Program, MicroVal and AFNOR NF Certification Programs. In addition to being an active member of the International Association of Food Protection (IAFP) and AOAC, Erin currently serves as Chair of the AOAC Official Methods Board, Chair of the International Stakeholder Panel on Alternative Methods (ISPAM) and a member of the MicroVal Technical Committee (MVTC). Erin earned a B.S. from the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio and an M.A. from Tufts University in Medford, MA.

Papers:
P1-94 Independent Evaluation of Prepared Gamma Irradiated Dehydrated Culture Media to Traditional Bulk Dehydrated Culture Media from Various Manufacturers
P2-182 Validation Report for the Method Comparison Evaluation of the bioMérieux TEMPO Aerobic Count (AC) to the Health Canada MFHPB-18 Determination of the Aerobic Colony Counts in Foods Reference Method for the Enumeration of Viable Mesophilic Aerobic Bacteria in a Variety of Foods
P3-202 Independent Method Comparison Evaluation of the Biomerieux VIDAS^® Listeria monocytogenes Xpress (LMX) to the Health Canada MFHPB-30 Reference Method
P3-203 An Independent Evaluation of the GENE-UP Listeria species Assay for the Detection of Listeria Species in Foods and Environmental Surfaces
P3-204 An Independent Evaluation of the GENE-UP Listeria monocytogenes Assay for the Detection of Listeria monocytogenes in Foods
P3-205 An Independent Evaluation of the GENE-UP^® EHEC Detection Method for the Detection of Non-O157 Shiga-toxin Producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Foods
P3-206 Independent Evaluation of the Bio-Rad iQ-Check^® Salmonella II Kit for the Detection of Salmonella Species in Select Foods and Environmental Surfaces
P3-207 Validation of the 375 Gram Matrix Extension to Health Canada MFLP-38 Detection of Salmonella Species from All Foods and Environmental Surfaces Using the Bio-Rad iQ-Check^® Salmonella II Kit