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Food safety director will deliver annual Woodroof Lecture

By Sharon Omahen
somahen@griffin.peachnet.edu

Robert E. Brackett, director of food safety for the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, will present the annual J.G. Woodroof Lecture on April 3 at 11 a.m. in the Tate Student Center.
The title of Brackett’s lecture will be “Can You See the Pattern?”
Brackett is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and taught at North Carolina State University before joining UGA’s food science faculty in Griffin in 1984.
In 2000, Brackett accepted a position as senior microbiologist at the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, where in 2001 he was promoted to his current position of director of food safety.
Brackett’s past research has focused on the effects of processing and packaging on the growth and survival of food-borne pathogens, the development of methods for detection and enumeration of food-borne bacterial pathogens, the behavior of food-borne pathogens in foods, and the detoxification of aflatoxins. His current job responsibilities include coordinating and managing new food safety programs, addressing food safety policy within the FDA, and serving in an outreach capacity to the food industry, other government agencies, and consumer groups.
Established in 1981, the Woodroof Lecture honors the late J.G. Woodroof, a pioneer in food science research. Woodroof organized the department of food science at UGA’s Georgia Experiment Station in 1942 and served as its department head for 26 years. He later served as the first chairman of the Division of Food Science.

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