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The editor and publishers of Food Safety
Magazine welcome
Veny Gapud, M.S.,
Director of Quality
Assurance & Food
Gapud Scientist with Popeye’s
Chicken & Biscuits, and Beth Ann
Crozier-Dodson, Ph.D., Supervisor
and Research Coordinator, Food Safety
and Security Laboratories, Kansas
State University to its prestigious
Editorial Advisory Board.
Gapud was nominated to the board
for her outstanding service and contributions to the field of retail/foodservice
food safety and quality assurance
through her leadership in many industry
organizations, including chair of the
International Association of Food
Protection (IAFP) Retail Food Safety
and Quality Professional Development
Group, as a member of the NRA
Education Foundation FoodSafe Food
Protection Manager Certification/
Examination Review Committee, and as
president-elect of the Georgia
Association for Food Protection.
Crozier-Dodson, who is also the
Assistant Director of the KSU
International Food Microbiology Rapid
and Automated Methods Workshop,
has been instrumental for
15 years in the planning
and execution of the
world-recognized conference founded by Dr.
Daniel Y.C. Fung. She is
an international consult- Crozier-
ant on food safety issues Dodson
for academia, as well as for the food
and diagnostic kit industries, and is a
Director of The Third China Workshop
on Rapid Methods in Food
Microbiology in Shanghai, China.
Crozier-Dodson is a member of numerous professional societies, including the
Institute of Food Technologists and the
International Association for Food
Protection, and is the youngest person
to have received a USDA
Commendation for Contribution to
Public Health for her work with the KSU
Rapid Methods Workshop.
bioMérieux announced the appoint-
ment of J. Stan Bailey, Ph.D., as
Director of Scientific
Affairs for the Industrial
Diagnostics business
group. Prior to joining
bioMérieux, Bailey
worked with the U.S.
Bailey Department of
Agriculture-Agricultural Research
Service (USDA-ARS) for 34 years,
where he was responsible for research
directed toward controlling and reduc-
ing contamination of poultry meat prod-
ucts by foodborne pathogens such as
Salmonella, Campylobacter and
Listeria, and developing methods for
recovery of these organisms from
foods. Bailey is currently the president-
elect of the International Association for
