Food and Feed Safety Systems and Analysis

Dr. Ricke received his B.S. degree in Animal Science (1979) an M.S. degree in Ruminant Nutrition (1982) from the Univ. of Illinois and his Ph.D. degree (1989) from the Univ. of Wisconsin with a co-major in Animal Science and Bacteriology. From 1989 to 1992 Dr. Ricke was a USDA-ARS postdoctorate in the Microbiology Department at North Carolina State Univ. He was at Texas A&M Univ. for 13 years and was a professor in the Poultry Science Dept. with joint appointments on the Food Science and Technology, Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences, and Nutrition Faculties and the Veterinary Pathobiology Dept. He has been honored in 2002 as a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Faculty Fellow. In 2005, he became the first holder of the new Wray Endowed Chair in Food Safety and Director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Arkansas. He is also a faculty member of the Dept. of Food Science and the Cellular and Molecular Graduate program. Dr. Griffiths G. Atungulu is the Director of The University of Arkansas Rice Processing Program and Asst. Professor of Grain Process Engineering. He holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees all in the field of agricultural engineering. He has worked on various aspects of biological and agricultural engineering, especially as related tofood processing and post-harvest systems engineering. At present, he directs research, teaching, and an outreach program that is focused on engineering and optimization of classical and innovative processing technologies to secure grain processing efficiency, automated quality monitoring and processing control, improved quality and shelf-life, and mitigation of mycotoxin formation. His rice research spans the areas of drying, chilling, aeration, milling, storage, and value-added processing. Research conducted has utilized lab- and field-based experiments, computerized mathematical modeling, and simulations tools to generate results and conclusions that advance science and positively impact the food, feed, and pet-food industries.

• 1. Changing Food Safety Landscape of U.S. Pet Foods 2. Mycotoxins Issues in Pet Food and Feed3. Emerging Pet Food and Feed Drying and Storage Strategies to Maintain Safety 4. Animal Feed Mill Biosecurity: Prevention of Biological Hazards5. Title: Physical and Chemical Methods for the Reduction of Biological Hazards in Animal Feeds6. Animal Feed Safety and Food Safety Modernization Act - Implications 7. Cereal Grain Fractions for Preharvest Control of Foodborne Pathogens: Opportunities and Potential Applications8. Abattoir Interventions to Reduce/Eliminate Shiga-Toxin Producing Escherichia coli on Beef 9. Moving beyond Escherichia coli O157:H7 – The New STEC Millennium in Preharvest Food Safety10. Characteristics of bacteriocins and use as food antimicrobials in the United States11. The viable but non-culturable state in Listeria monocytogenes, what are the implications?12. Current Perspectives on Food Safety in Cantaloupes13. Using the Agricultural Environment to Find Better Surrogates for Foodborne Pathogens14. Application of Genomics for Novel Detection Strategies of Salmonella in Food Production Systems15. Use and Impacts of Whole Genome Sequencing in Retail Food Safety 16. The Poultry Gut Microbiome and Foodborne Pathogens in Poultry- Current Methods and Interpretations17. Application of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Technology for Microbiome Analysis in Poultry Product Processing Systems18. Application of Proteomics and Genomics to Understand Listeria monocytogenes Establishment in the Gastrointestinal Tract19. Supply Chain Analysis: Farm to Fork20. Creating the Next Generation of Food Safety Practitioners – Essential Cross-Training in Engineering, Data analytics and Food Science21. Intelligent Computer Systems in Food Safety – An Illustration of Machine Learning’s Role in the Analysis of DNA Sequencing Data 22. Data Mining’s Contribution to Food Safety through Threat Detection23. Quantitative Models for Food Security Decision Analysis24. Accounting for the Role of Uncertainty in Food Protection: Risk and Reliability