Dr. Joellen Feirtag is an Associate Professor of Food Safety in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Minnesota who is spending a 6 month sabbatical working with BTSafety. Joellen has extensive experience in industry (Chr. Hansen Laboratories, Anheuser-Busch, FreshCheck) and academia (UW-LaCrosse, Acadia University, Technical University of Nova Scotia) where her research and extension activities have focused on food microbiology and food safety. Joellen consults with a number of companies that process foods on FDA and NBACC’s high priority list and assists in distribution data collection from these companies. In addition, she advises one of the students working on NBACC projects. |