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Visiting College Station for the Texas A&M Center for Food Safety Annual Meeting

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Gary Acuff, Director, Texas A&M Center for Food Safety, is one of the coolest dudes to hang out with at meetings. He’s got great insights about food safety, productivity, Apple products and family stuff and is an all around fun guy. I’m heading out to College Station on August 12 to hang out with Gary for a day and give a talk.

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Join us for the Texas A&M Center for Food Safety 2014 Annual Meeting on Tuesday, August 12 at 11:00 AM at our Earl Rudder Freeway lab.

The annual meeting will begin with a special seminar presented by Dr. Ben Chapman entitled: “Food safety communication around beef isn’t well done (no pun intended),” followed directly by the Annual Meeting. Lunch will be provided.

Please RSVP to gacuff@tamu.edu if you plan to attend so we can get a headcount for lunch.

If you would like to invite a guest who might be interested in joining the Center, just let us know and we will add them to the headcount.

Download the flyer here.

Acuff speaks, over and over and over (because it’s on video at bites.ksu.edu)***

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Dr. Gary Acuff game a seminar at Kansas State University on Nov. 9, 2010, entitled, The End Game: What is Really Achievable in Pathogen Reduction.

The slides for Acuff’s talk are available at: http://bites.ksu.edu/ksu-seminar

The video is available at: http://bites.ksu.edu/sites/default/files/Gary-Acuff-Guest-Lecture-Nov-2010_0.mp4

Or under the video section on the front page of bites.ksu.edu.

Texas A&M University announced last month that Acuff was going to become director for the Center for Food Safety, and will lead expanded food safety efforts.

Prior to his appointment as Director of the Center for Food Safety, Acuff served as interim head and then head of the department of animal science from 2004 to 2010. And before that he taught undergraduate and graduate level courses and laboratories in food microbiology for 20 years and conducted research on the microbiological quality and safety of foods through his appointment with Texas AgriLife Research.

A past-president of the International Association of Food Protection, Acuff currently is chairman of a 10-member committee for the National Research Council, which evaluates food safety requirements for the Federal Purchase Ground Beef Program.
 

Acuff speaks, Kansas State Nov. 9

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Some say he’s the nicest guy in food safety. Some say he’s great to sit beside at meetings because of his witty asides. Some call him Dr. – Dr. Gary Acuff.

Texas A&M University announced last month that Acuff was going to become director for the Center for Food Safety, and will lead expanded food safety efforts. This apparently involves a rock-star style tour of food safety hot spots so he can figure out what not to repeat and what to do, so Acuff is going to be talking with folks at Kansas State University on Tuesday Nov. 9, 2010, at 10:30 a.m. in Call Hall 205.

Acuff’s seminar is entitled, The end game: what is really achievable in pathogen reduction, but he told me he may talk about something else.

Prior to his appointment as Director of the Center for Food Safety, Acuff served as interim head and then head of the department of animal science from 2004 to 2010. And before that, he taught undergraduate and graduate level courses and laboratories in food microbiology for 20 years and conducted research on the microbiological quality and safety of foods through his appointment with Texas AgriLife Research.

A past-president of the International Association of Food Protection, Acuff currently is chairman of a 10-member committee for the National Research Council, which evaluates food safety requirements for the Federal Purchase Ground Beef Program.