Awards at 2011 AOAC Int Annual Mtg, New Orleans

AOAC INTERNATIONAL AWARDS PROGRAM
Recognizing Analytical Excellence
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AOAC INTERNATIONAL AWARDS PROGRAM
The AOAC INTERNATIONAL Awards Program
recognizes significant contributions to AOAC
and the analytical science community.
2011
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AOAC presents these awards at its Annual Meeting each fall,
providing worldwide recognition to the recipients. With your
help, the AOAC INTERNATIONAL Awards Program can
continue to recognize those individuals who are deserving of this
honor.
AWARDS
The Harvey W. Wiley Award for the Development of
Analytical Methods
AOAC’s most prestigious scientific award is presented to a
scientist (or group of scientists) who have made an outstanding
contribution to analytical method development in an area of
interest to the Association.
Application deadline is January 31, 2012.
Fellow of AOAC INTERNATIONAL
Recognizes the dedication and commitment of members who have
served the Association with distinction.
Application deadline is February 15, 2012.
For More Information:
For eligibility and nominations guidelines, including nomination forms and deadlines contact:
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Monday, September 19, 2011
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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HARVEY W. WILEY AWARD presented to:
Three Mile Island nuclear accident, and mercury in canned tuna. In 1990, he joined the Kuwait
Institute for Scientific Research to prepare a research proposal to implement a TDS program in that
country. In June, 1992, he was assigned to direct the activities of the Total Diet Research Center,
and in 1995 merged it with the depopulated Pesticide and Industrial Chemical Research Center at
Detroit with research scientists at both locations. Salmon is a 1956 graduate of Waterville-Elysian
High School.
STEVEN LEHOTAY joined the USDA/ARS in 1992, where he is currently a
lead scientist, who serves to develop improved analytical and screening methods for the detection of chemical residues in food. His scientific investigations
and method development research have involved improvement in the analysis
of pesticides, veterinary drugs, and other contaminants in food and environmental samples. Research has pertained to sample preparation, cleanup, analytical separations, detection, screening, quantification, identification, and data
processing using many types of analytical techniques applied in novel ways.
Lehotay has been a member since 1993 and was named a Fellow of AOAC INTERNATIONAL in 2006. He received Study Director of the Year and Collaborative Study of the Year Awards in 2002 (AOAC Official MethodSM 2002.03) and
2007. The method,“Determination of Pesticide Residues in Foods by Acetonitrile Extraction and Partitioning with Magnesium Sulfate (AOAC Official
MethodSM 2007.01),” termed QuEChERS (quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged,
and safe), is being used by many pesticide residue-monitoring laboratories
worldwide.The QuEChERS procedure is a significant improvement in extraction of a wide variety of pesticide residues from food matrixes.
AOAC INTERNATIONAL is pleased to present the Special Recognition Award for exemplary contributions and volunteerism.
Steven J. Lehotay
U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA)/Agriculture Research
Service (ARS), Eastern Regional
Research Center, Wyndmoor,
Pennsylvania, USA
Lehotay is an author/co-author of over 100 scientific publications and over
140 meeting abstracts. He earned both his B.S. and Ph.D. chemistry degrees
from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, USA, in 1987 and 1992,
respectively.
The Harvey W. Wiley Award is presented each year to a scientist or group of
scientists who have made an outstanding contribution to analytical methodology in an area of interest to AOAC INTERNATIONAL.The award consists of
US$5,000, an award plaque, and reimbursement of travel expenses incident to
attending the AOAC INTERNATIONAL Annual Meeting and Exposition.
HARVEY W. WILEY SCHOLARSHIP AWARD presented to:
YUN MIN CHANG is a senior majoring in biochemistry, with a minor in art
history, at the University of Florida. Since his freshman year, Chang has been
conducting research with Weihong Tan to explore and develop potential
therapeutics for cancer using DNA-based aptamers. Last summer, he was an
intern at the Institute Pasteur de Lille and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France to study novel peptide ligation techniques
under the direction of Oleg Melnyk. In the future, he plans to become a
research and clinical oncologist to continue cancer research and to develop
analytical methods to detect and treat cancer beyond the laboratory. Apart
from his studies, Chang enjoys traveling and devoting his time to medical missions abroad.
The Harvey W. Wiley Scholarship (US$1,000) is awarded to an upper-level
undergraduate or graduate student to encourage and assist study in the analytical sciences. A college chosen by the current year’s Harvey W. Wiley Award
recipient makes the scholarship selection based on criteria established by the
Association.
Yun Min Chang
University of Florida, Tarpon
Springs, Florida, USA
2011 MEMBER SERVICE AWARDS
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Zhichao Lin
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FELLOW OF AOAC INTERNATIONAL presented to:
AOAC 50-Year Member presented to:
A Special Recognition Award is presented to REGINALD W. BENNETT. He is
presently section leader in microbial toxins, with a primary interest in Staphylococcus and Bacillus species toxins, and serodiagnosis of Listeria monocytogenes. Bennett is a member and Fellow of AOAC INTERNATIONAL. In
addition, he is a member of the American Society for Microbiology, Institute of
Food Technologists, International Association of Food Protection, and a Fellow
of the American Academy of Microbiology (FAAM).
Bennett is a recipient of several awards: FDA Group Recognition Awards
(1990, 1997); AOAC Harvey W. Wiley Award (1991); FDA “On the Spot” and
Excellence in Science (1994); Public Health Service (PHS) Superior Service
Award (1995); Distinguished Service Award,“Rapid Methods and Automation
in Microbiology Workshops (1987-1997); Division of Continuing Education,
Kansas State University (1997); and the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services Secretary’s Award for Distinguished Service (Counter/Bioterrorism;
2003). He is also the recipient of the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award
by the International Association for Food Protection in 2004. Bennett has
over 150 publications. He holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees in
microbiology from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Reginald W. Bennett, FDA/
CFSAN
Office of Regulatory Science, College Park, Maryland, USA
Sneh D. Bhandari
Silliker, Inc., Chicago Heights,
Illinois, USA
Bhandari is actively involved with AOAC and is currently a member of the
Official Methods Board (OMB). He has served as a General Referee for color
additives and vitamin methods, and is a member of the technical committee
on additives. He was a member of the AOAC Task Force on Pesticide Residues
in Soft Drinks, and most recently, is a member of the Stakeholder Panel
on Infant Formula and Adult Nutritionals. He has served as a member of
various expert review panels (ERPs) and working groups at AOAC. Bhandari
is the author of numerous refereed articles and book chapters and many
presentations at professional meetings, including AOAC Annual Meetings. He
earned his Ph.D. in Nutritional Biochemistry.
GEORGE H. BOONE retired from the FDA after 38 years of dedicated service.
He began his career with FDA in 1961 as a chemist in the Baltimore District
Laboratory. He transferred to New York District in 1966, where he was promoted to supervisory chemist. In 1968, he was promoted to Director of the
Food and General Chemistry Branch, and in 1971 he was promoted to Director of the New York District, Science Branch. In 1982, following a reorganization, he was appointed Regional Laboratory Director. In this capacity, he was
responsible for directing the analytical chemistry, microbiology, and methods
development research activities of the Northeast Regional Laboratory, FDA’s
largest field laboratory. During his career with FDA, Boone served on numerous Agency task forces and committees, including the Field Drug Committee,
where he played a major role in developing FDA’s first Pre-Approval Inspection Compliance Program for Human Drugs. Boone is a recipient of FDA’s
Award of Merit, Commendable Service Award, FDA Equal Opportunity Award,
Public Health Service EEO Award, and FDA’s Distinguished Career Service Award.
George H. Boone, FDA (retired)
Orange Park, Florida, USA
Jo Marie Cook
Florida Department of
Agriculture and Consumer
Services, Division of Food Safety,
Tallahassee, Florida, USA
During his 50 years of service as an AOAC volunteer, Boone served as an Associate Referee and was an active member of AOAC’s Long Range Planning
Committee. He was elected to the AOAC Board of Directors in 1994, and in
2000 he was elected president. Boone is a Fellow of AOAC and was a founder
and first president of the AOAC New York-New Jersey Section. He received his
Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Howard University.
GARRETT SALMON, who was director of the Total Diet and Pesticide Research Center in Kansas City, retired after 39 years of federal service. In 1996,
he started his career with FDA at the Minneapolis District. In addition to his
duties as a bench chemist and as an AOAC Associate Referee, Salmon was
the first chemist in that district to perform joint (IDIP) inspections. In 1969,
he later transferred to the Detroit District as a supervisory chemist and was
involved with several high-profile projects, including PBB in animal feed, the
AOAC is pleased to present a Fellow Award to SNEH D. BHANDARI. He is the
Director of Chemistry Research at Silliker Inc., and has been part of Silliker
for over 20 years. Prior to Silliker, he taught Nutritional Biochemistry at the
Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in India. He has been a UNESCO
postdoctoral research associate at the University of Arizona Health Sciences
Center. His earlier research focused on different aspects of nutritional
biochemistry, including intestinal enzymes. In addition, he performed
research in folate metabolism at Louisiana State University Medical Center in
Shreveport and University of Florida, Gainesville. Bhandari has developed and
validated various methods for food and dietary supplements analyses.
Garrett D. Salmon
Retired, Olathe, Kansas, USA
A 2011 Fellow Award is presented to JO MARIE COOK for her many contributions to the Association. She was employed for 12 years in research at the
Coca-Cola Co., working on a variety of projects including identification of artificial sweeteners, flavors, gums, and weighting agents in beverages, formulation of nutritional beverages, headspace gases in juice packaging, permeation
in plastic packaging, development of plastic wine corks, and production of instant tea. Later, she supervised gas chromatography analysis of environmental
pollutants in water at the Florida Department of Health for 4 years. She then
transferred to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
in 1994 to supervise the GC analysis of pesticides in foods. In 2000, Cook was
promoted to Environmental Manager, overseeing the day-to-day activities of
the laboratory. Cook has served as Chief of the Bureau of Chemical Residue
Laboratories since 2005. In addition to the analysis of pesticides for the state
enforcement program and the USDA Pesticide Data Program, the Bureau
assures the safety of Florida foods by screening for a variety other contaminants, including veterinary drugs, melamine, and most recently, polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons and dispersants in seafood.The work of the Bureau is
complimented by analysis of unknowns through grant funding from the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Emergency Response Network.
Cook received her degree in chemistry from Michigan State University.
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Egan has served on several EPA Homeland Security Advisory Committees,
several CLSI Subcommittees involving infectious disease methods, and several
DHS-led federal workgroups and committees involving development of
standards for biothreat assays. She is the president-elect of the Eastern New
York Branch of the American Society for Microbiology and has also served
as a member of several national committees dealing with the response
to biothreat events, including a National Academy Institute of Medicine
Committee on Certification of PPE, the Association for Public Health
Laboratories Public Health Preparedness and Response Committee which
provides guidance to CDC and other partners for preparedness issues and
policy development, and AOAC’s Methods Committee on Biological Threat
Agents. She has authored several book chapters and publications on assay
development for biothreat agents, as well as assay validation. Egan received a
B.S. in 1992 from Siena College prior to obtaining a Ph.D. in Pharmacology in
1997 from Albany Medical College.
G. SARWAR GILANI is presented with a Fellow Award for his many contributions to the Association. For over 34 years, Gilani worked as a Senior Research
Scientist in the area of safety, nutritional quality, and health aspects of dietary
proteins and associated minor bioactive components, such as phytoestrogens
and trypsin inhibitors, in the Nutrition Research Division of Health Canada.
Gilani has made significant contributions to the work of AOAC INTERNATIONAL. During the 1980s, he played a leading role in participating in AOAC
collaborative studies on amino acid analysis, protein digestibility, and protein
quality. He has been a member of the AOAC Methods Committee on Food
Nutrition and a General Referee for determination of bovine immunoglobulin. Since 2009, he has served as a member of the AOAC Editorial Board. In
addition, Gilani has served as Section Editor of the Food Composition and
Additives section of the Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL since 2002, and
has served as a guest editor of several special editions, such as those on
phytoestrogens, trans fats, and foods nutritionally enhanced through biotechnology, amino acids, and bioactive peptides. He also recruited guest editors
and oversaw successful completion of special guest editions of J. AOAC Int. on
sterol oxides, resistant starches and dietary fiber, food allergens, and acrylamide in foods. He has organized and chaired several symposiums on hot food
and nutrition topics at AOAC Annual Meetings.
G. Sarwar Gilani
Health Canada, Ottawa, ON,
Canada
A Special Recognition Award is presented to CHERYL GAUTHIER, Director
of the Bioterrorism Response Laboratory at the Massachusetts Department
of Public Health (11 years). Gauthier worked at Tufts Veterinary School
in Grafton for 7 years, where she supervised the serology laboratory and
worked in the microbiology laboratory.
Due to his highly significant contributions to the development of science in
developing countries, especially Pakistan, Gilani was recently elected to be
a Foreign Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences. He has authored over
150 research papers, authoritative reviews, and book chapters and is also the
Senior Co-Editor of the American Oil Chemists Society (AOCS) book on Phytoestrogens and Health, which was published in 2002. Gilani holds an M.Sc. in
Agricultural Chemistry from the University of Peshawar in Pakistan, as well as
an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.
Cheryl Gauthier
Massachusetts Department of
Public Health, Jamaica Plain,
Massachusetts, USA
A 2011 Special Recognition Award is presented to DAVID LADD, who has
served as the Director of Hazardous Materials Emergency Response for
the Massachusetts Department of Fire Services since 1999. His 37 years of
emergency services experience includes service as the Chief Paramedic for
the City of Boston; disaster response at the local, state, and federal levels;
and consultation in international system development. Ladd has earned a
reputation for excellence through innovation and inspirational leadership.
WILLIAM HALL is being presented with a 2011 Fellow Award for meritorious
service to the Association. He has been Study Director and co-Study Director
on several validations of fertilizer methods. He has organized and presented
in numerous symposia and poster sessions on fertilizers, feeds, and agricultural materials, as well as contaminants and validation education. He was
chair of the environmental methods committee, a member of the OMB for
several years, and a member of the Technical Division on Reference Materials (TDRM). Currently he is chair of the Agricultural Materials Community
and the Fertilizer subgroup of that community. He has organized funding of
several ongoing method validations through cooperation with The Fertilizer
Institute (TFI) and the Fertilizer Community.
Gauthier received a B.S. degree in Biology at Westfield State College and an
Academic Excellence Award in Biology in 1991. She then attended a oneyear program in Medical Technology at Baystate Medical Center and was the
recipient of the Claudia Wishnafski Memorial Award in Medical Technology
in 1992. She received an M.S. degree in Biological Studies from Anna Maria
College in 2001.
William L. Hall, Jr.
Mosaic Fertilizer, LLC, Lithia,
Florida, USA
David M. Ladd
The Commonwealth of
Massachusetts Department
of Fire Services, Hazardous
Materials Emergency Response,
Stow, Massachusetts, USA
In his current position, Ladd has planning, operational, and administrative
responsibility for protecting the 6.5 million inhabitants of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts from hazardous materials emergencies arising from industry,
agriculture, transportation, and terrorism. He serves as a subject matter expert
on various national scientific and homeland security activities, including the
U.S. Inter-Agency Board, the AOAC Stakeholder Panel on Agent Detection Assays (SPADA), the Federal Interagency Working Group on Biodetection, and
chaired the responder working group on development of the ASTM International standard, E2458-10 Standard Practices for Bulk Sample Collection and
Swab Sample Collection of Visible Powders Suspected of Being Biological
Agents from Nonporous Surfaces, and E2770-10 Standard Guide for Operational Guidelines for Initial Response to a Suspected Biothreat Agent.
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SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD presented to:
In addition to his AOAC activities, Hall holds several leadership responsibilities
in other organizations and the industry, including chair of ISO Technical
Committee 134 (Fertilizers and Soil Amendments), chair of AAPFCO’s
Magruder check sample committee (as well as liaison on six other
committees), and section leader of the International Fertilizer Association’s
Working Group on Method Harmonization. Hall is active in AAFCO,TFI, CEN,
AFPC, FIRT, PhosChem, and several other industry organizations. He is past
chair of the ACS Fertilizer and Soil Section and is on the executive committee
of the AGRO section. Hall is named on several patents and processes for
fertilizer production and analysis.
ALEXANDER J. KRYNITSKY is presented with a Special Recognition Award
in recognition of his outstanding service in ensuring quality, timeliness, and
proper peer review of manuscripts for the Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL.
He serves as editor for the section “Residues and Trace Elements.” Krynitsky
has handled 18% of all Journal submissions from September 2005 to August
2010. Research involving residues and trace elements is one of the most
highly submitted areas of J. AOAC Int., accounting for 22% of total submissions
(approximately 86 papers of 387 papers) received from September 2009 to
August 2010.
Krynitsky has been a member of AOAC since 1997. He has been a Section Editor for J. AOAC Int. since September 2004. Krynitsky has authored/co-authored
nearly 50 papers, book chapters, and abstracts. He has over 36 years experience in analytical methods development for the determination of pesticide
residues and other industrial chemicals in complex matrixes. He has also been
involved with training State chemists in the analysis of pesticide residues in
complex matrixes, using techniques such as liquid chromatography/mass
spectrometry (LC-MS). His research interests are in the area of developing
rapid analytical methods using MS.
AOAC is proud to present a Special Recognition Award to CHRISTINA EGAN,
who is Director of the Biodefense Laboratory at the Wadsworth Center, New
York State Department of Health (NYSDOH). She also serves as the Director
of Scientific Education for a newly established program at the Wadsworth
Center, the Master’s of Science in Laboratory Sciences Program, and is an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Science in the School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. Egan has been employed by the NYSDOH since 1999,
when she joined Wadsworth Center as a New York State Emerging Infectious
Disease fellow. She became a research scientist and member of the Bioterrorism Response Team, which was responsible for the analysis of environmental
and clinical specimens for anthrax in 2001. Egan’s laboratory tests for clinical
and environmental samples for biothreat agents. She is actively involved in the
development of new diagnostics for select agents, and trains laboratorians and
first responders on issues related to biothreat agents.
Alexander J. Krynitsky
Bioanalytical Methods Branch,
FDA/CFSAN, College Park,
Maryland, USA
He is completing his 38th year of employment with Mosaic and its predecessors. His current duties as Senior Product Stewardship Specialist include
primary responsibility for Quality Assurance, Product Compliance, technical
accuracy of labels, specification sheets, material safety data sheets (MSDS) and
similar documents, and represents Mosaic as technical liaison with numerous
standards and industry organizations.
A recipient of a 2011 Fellow Award, BERT POPPING is currently Director of
Scientific Development and Scientific Public Affairs in the Eurofins Scientific
Group. He joined Eurofins Scientific in 1999, initially as Company Molecular
Biologist, and later becoming Director of Molecular Biology and Immunology.
In 1993 he joined an Agency of the UK Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and
Food as Head of Molecular Biology and Animal Speciation Services.
Bert Popping
Eurofins Scientific Group,
Hamburg, Germany
Christina Egan, New York State
Department of Health, Albany,
New York, USA
Socrates Trujillo
U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), Center
for Food Safety and Applied
Nutrition (CFSAN), College
Park, Maryland, USA
Popping is presiding chair of the AOAC Research Institute Board of Directors,
member of the J. AOAC Int. Editorial Board, and Chair of the AOAC Technical
Programming Council. In addition, he is one of the three national experts of
the CEN standardization working group for food allergen methods and leader
of the allergen working group of the European Commission 6th framework
project MoniQA. Popping received his Ph.D. from the University of Bochum,
Germany and continued postdoctoral studies at the University of Durham, UK.
AOAC presents a Fellow Award to SOCRATES TRUJILLO for his meritorious
contributions to the Association, serving as chair of several committees, as
well as scientific advisor.Trujillo is a Staff Fellow, FDA/CFSAN, Division of Microbiology, Office of Regulatory Science. In this capacity, he is responsible for
developing FDA research for microbiological food safety guidelines and regulations, with special emphasis in food microbiology and fresh produce. He has
organized and coordinated many FDA international food safety extension programs (e.g., International Workshop on Mycotoxins, XI IUPAC Symposium on
Mycotoxins and Phycotoxins), as well as hosted several international visitors
to train them in the detection of foodborne pathogens using conventional
and molecular methods.
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The 2011 Fellow of AOAC Award is presented to PAUL WEHLING, who
started his career with General Mills in 1983. Since that time, he has been
a bench chemist, a chromatographer, laboratory supervisor, quality engineer, and a technical consultant. Along the way he developed an interest in
statistics, especially in developing experiments to characterize analytical
method variation. His special area of interest is the intersection of probability,
statistics, and analytical chemistry. Wehling has served AOAC as a Methods
Committee Advisor, member of the OMB, chair of the Committee on Statistics,
and currently as Committee Statistician Advisor on a Methods Committee. He
provides guidance and support to Methods Committee members in all statistical aspects of the collaborative study process and has demonstrated timely,
competent, and continuous service in an exemplary manner to the respective
Methods Committees.
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COLLABORATIVE STUDY OF THE YEAR presented for:
Determination of Immunogloublin G in Bovine Colostrum and Milk Powders, and in Dietary Supplements of Bovine Origin by Protein G Affinity
Liquid Chromatography
Paul Wehling
General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis,
Minnesota, USA
Grant Abernethy
Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd.,
Palmerston North, New Zealand
The Fellow of AOAC INTERNATIONAL Award recognizes the dedication of the
volunteers who serve the Association.
STUDY DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR presented to:
JEFFREY VAN DE RIET is the recipient of the 2011 Study Director of the Year
Award. He began his career with the Canadian Department of Fisheries and
Oceans conducting food safety analyses of fish and seafood. Van de Riet was
actively involved in method development for marine toxins such as domoic
acid and diarrhetic shellfish toxins. Since 1997, he has been with CFIA and
has been actively involved in the development and validation of methods of
analysis for veterinary drug residues in aquaculture products. Over the last
5 years, he has been developing and validating an alternative for the mouse
bioassay (MBA) method for the analysis of paralytic shellfish toxins (PST). His
team has developed and validated a liquid chromatography, post-column oxidation method for the analysis of PST in mussels, clams, scallops, and oysters.
He served as Study Director for the AOAC collaborative study of this method,
which was adopted Official First Action in March 2011.The acceptance of this
methodology has resulted in the elimination of the use of the MBA for the
analysis of PST in Canada. Van de Riet is a graduate of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.
Don Otter
AgResearch, Palmerston North,
New Zealand
Jeffrey M. van de Riet
Canadian Food Inspection
Agency (CFIA), Dartmouth
Laboratory, Dartmouth, NS,
Canada
A Collaborative Study of the Year Award is presented to GRANT ABERNETHY
and DON OTTER. Abernethy has worked as a researcher for over 10 years
in the pharmaceutical industry. In 2007, he joined Fonterra Research Center
as a Research Scientist in the Analytical Development and Manufacturing
Innovation team. Abernethy received a BS and M.Sc with honors and a Ph.D.
in biochemistry from Canterbury University, with a joint project between
AgResearch and Massey University.
Otter is a senior research scientist at AgResearch. In 2008, he joined the Food,
Metabolism and Microbiology Section of AgResearch to lead its Metabolomics initiative.This entailed LC-MS/MS analysis of animal and human samples
identifying biomarkers in nutrigenomics and ‘food for health’ projects. More
recently, he has become involved in research in the dairy and milk areas, examining the health benefits of various milk products. As a senior research scientist for 15 years, he led the New Zealand dairy industry, and is recognized as
a world expert in the analysis of milk proteins/peptides, particularly by HPLC,
immunoassays, and MS. He introduced CE and LC-MS technology to the dairy
industry and had a watching brief for all new, novel analytical methods and instrumentation, such as surface plasmon resonance. Otter has been an invited
speaker at a number of international meetings and written numerous book
chapters. After post-graduate and Master’s programs in classical biochemistry,
Otter undertook a Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering.
The Collaborative Study of the Year Award recognizes excellence on the part
of Study Directors with regard to scientific innovation and soundness of
design, implementation, and report of a collaborative study with emphasis on
noteworthy aspects, such as innovative technology or application, breadth of
applicability, critical need, difficulty in analysis, or range of collaborators.
REFERENCE MATERIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD presented to:
MICHAEL QUILLIAM joined NRCC in 1987, where he now serves as a Principal Research Officer and Program Leader for the Toxins and Certified Reference Materials (CRMs) program. His research has focused on seafood and algal
toxins, including assembling and validating methods and reference samples.
He determined domoic acid to be the causative agent in several poisoning incidents and identified and characterized several new marine toxins. His active
involvement with reference material-related issues ranged from the production and certification of shellfish toxin CRMs to several years as a board member of TDRM. His work has been recognized by many, including AOAC, which
honored Quilliam with the Harvey W. Wiley Award in 2005. Quilliam received
a B.S and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Manitoba.
The Study Director of the Year Award recognizes consistently outstanding
performance by Study Directors over a period of years.
Michael A. Quilliam
The National Research Council
of Canada (NRCC), Institute
for Marine Biosciences, Halifax,
Canada
The Reference Material Achievement Award recognizes contributions and
encourages active participation of members of the Technical Division for
Reference Materials in pursuit of the goals and objectives of the Association.
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GENERAL REFEREE -PROCESS EXPERT OF THE YEAR presented to:
LaBudde is a Professional Animal Scientist and Charter Diplomat of the American College of Animal Food Science. He has served on the Scientific Affairs
Committee of the American Meat Institute, has been an Associate Referee and
Statistical Advisor of AOAC (he received the Advisor of the Year Award from
AOAC in 2007), and is a professional member of several technical societies, including ASA, AOAC, IAFP, ARPAS, and the Virginia Academy of Sciences.
He has published numerous research articles and two books, holds several
patents, and has provided consulting services to hundreds of manufacturers.
He is an internationally renowned speaker on food safety and food science.
LaBudde holds a B.S. degree in Chemistry and Mathematics from the University of Michigan and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of
Wisconsin.
The Chemical Contaminants and Residues in Food Community was conceived
and established with the vision and guidance of many friends and colleagues,
but it is possible to mention only a few. In 2004, hundreds of scientists crowded the room to witness the launching of the Agricultural Materials Community and many recognized that work in foods would need its own group.The
members of the Methods Committees on Drugs and Related Topics and Residues and Related Topics, including Pat Beckett, STEVE CAPAR, Mary Carson,
JO MARIE COOK, and many others, all agreed that a new community needed
to be formed, but without funded projects, it took some time to convince the
AOAC Board of Directors.The budget crisis and the community concept was
a constant topic of conversation at the 2005 Annual Meeting. It was clear that
if the proposed community were to find support for its analytical needs, it
would have to generate more global support. With help from Nancy Thiex and
the Agricultural Materials Community as a guide, the group began writing a
Terms of Reference and an Issues and Needs statement that was distributed
at the 2006 Annual Meeting. Capar and Cook presented the proposal for a
new community to the Board of Directors.The Board was concerned that the
proposed community did not have funding, but the community was confident
that funding would become available. By 2007, the Chemical Contaminants
and Residues in Food Community held its own meeting attended by over 100
scientists. In the years since, the community has grown in membership and
diversity, reaching out to scientists throughout the world. A large number of
Organizational Affiliates are active members of the community and financially
support community initiatives.The vision has been that the community be
open and available to scientists throughout the world, whether members
of AOAC or present at the meeting.The hope is that the community will
continue to evolve and be productive, moving quickly from consensus to active collaboration on methodologies of importance to the analytical sciences
community.
The Community Volunteer of the Year Award recognizes the dedication and
excellence on the part of a volunteer who significantly contributes to AOAC
INTERNATIONAL’s analytical and technical communities with noted accomplishments relating to his or her area of expertise.
AOAC is proud to award JOE BOISON of CFIA as a General Referee of the
Year. He joined the Food Production and Inspection Branch (FPIB) of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) in December 1986, where he is currently a
Senior Research Scientist developing methods for the detection of veterinary
drug residues in foods of animal origin by liquid or gas chromatography-mass
spectrometric detection techniques for use in regulatory control programs.
Joe Boison, CFIA, Center for
Veterinary Drug Residues,
Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Stephen G. Capar
U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), Center
for Food Safety and Applied
Nutrition (CFSAN),
College Park, Maryland, USA
Jo Marie Cook
Florida Department of
Agriculture and Consumer
Services, Division of Food Safety,
Tallahassee, Florida, USA
As an expert reviewer for the AOAC Research Institute and a General Referee
for veterinary drugs for AOAC, Boison has been instrumental in the evaluation
and certification of several test kits that have been implemented for use in the
National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments (NCIMS) program. In 1997,
he was appointed as Section Editor for Veterinary Drugs for J. AOAC Int., and
in 2010 as a member of the AOAC Research Institute Board of Directors. Since
2008, he has participated in several ERPs in an effort to validate methods for
veterinary drug residues in foods of animal origin. Boison is currently the
chief editor for a collaborative study being conducted under the auspices of
AOAC to validate an analytical method for 653 pesticide residues and chemical pollutants in tea by GC-MS, GC-MS/MS, and/or LC-MS/MS.
He is a Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation (FWIF), and a member of
the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee for Food Additives (JECFA). Boison
graduated with an M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry from University of Ghana in
1976 and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from McMaster University (Canada)
in 1986. He also holds two faculty positions at the University of Saskatchewan:
Professor of Chemistry (Chemistry Department) and Professor of Veterinary
Biomedical Sciences (Western College of Veterinary Medicine).
Thomas S. Hammack, FDA/
CFSAN
College Park, Maryland, USA
AOAC is pleased to select THOMAS HAMMACK as a General Referee of the
Year. He serves as co-General Referee for Food Microbiology for the Methods
Committee on Microbiology since 2004. In addition, he served as Study Director for Method 2000.06 (Detection of Salmonella in Foods with a Low Microbial Load) and participated in the validation of Method 995.20 (Salmonella in
Raw, Highly Contaminated Foods and Poultry Feed). Hammack has worked as
a research microbiologist for FDA since 1990 and is currently the Chief of the
Microbial Methods Development Branch. He is a co-author of FDA’s Bacteriological Analytical Manual’s (BAM) Salmonella chapter. Hammack received both
his B.S. and MS degrees from the University of Maryland at College Park.
The General Referee of the Year Award is presented by the AOAC Official
Methods Board in recognition of outstanding volunteer commitment and leadership in methods development on the part of a General Referee.
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EXPERT REVIEW PANEL OF THE YEAR presented to:
METHOD COMMITTEE ADVISOR OF THE YEAR presented to:
PAULA BROWN is currently Director of Applied Research for Natural Health
The 2011 Method Committee Advisor of the Year is presented to PAUL
WEHLING, who started his career with General Mills in 1983. Since that
time, he has been a bench chemist, a chromatographer, laboratory supervisor,
quality engineer, and a technical consultant. Along the way he developed an
interest in statistics, especially in developing experiments to characterize
analytical method variation. His special area of interest is the intersection of
probability, statistics and analytical chemistry. Wehling has served AOAC as a
Methods Committee Advisor, member of the OMB, chair of the Committee
on Statistics, and currently as Committee Statistician Advisor on a Methods
Committee. He provides guidance and support to Methods Committee
members in all statistical aspects of the collaborative study process and has
demonstrated timely, competent, and continuous service in an exemplary
manner to the respective Methods Committees.
and Food Products at BCIT, where she has actively engaged the natural health
products (NHP) industry for over a decade. Her research focus is development
and validation of methods for analyzing plant secondary metabolites in raw
materials and finished products and in biological samples to support therapeutic monitoring during preclinical and clinical study. Brown was appointed
a Fellow of AOAC INTERNATIONAL in 2009, She served 5 years as General
Referee, has participated on eight ERPs, and directed three collaborative
studies. She sits on the American Botanical Council Advisory Committee, the
Natural Health Products Program Advisory Committee for Health Canada, and
chairs NSF’s Joint Committee for Dietary Supplements. Brown is the “Quality
Focus” columnist for Nutraceuticals World. She obtained her M.Sc. in carbohydrate chemistry from Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, BC, Canada) in 1998.
AOAC presents an Expert Review Panel Award to GLENN KENNEDY who
heads the Chemical Surveillance Branch in AFBI, which is the UK National
Reference Laboratory for most of the substances banned by European legislation (hormones, nitroimidazoles, ß-agonists, nitrofurans, etc.). His laboratory is
responsible for all testing for veterinary drug residues and marine biotoxins
in Northern Ireland. He was a member of the Expert Group responsible for
drafting Commission Decision 2002/657/EC, concerning analytical method
validation. He has coordinated two EU-funded research projects (including the
nitrofuran project, FoodBRAND) and has been a partner in several others. Kennedy sits, as an Assessor, on the UK’s Advisory Committee on Animal Feedingstuffs (ACAF) and as an Advisor on the UK’s Veterinary Residues Committee
(VRC). Kennedy is a founding member of the School for Advanced Residues
Analysis in Food (SARAF), which has offered training courses in Nantes,
France, or in third world countries since 2001. He has acted as a National Expert on European Commission Food and Veterinary Office audits of residues
testing programs in countries, including China, Mexico, Vietnam, and New Zealand over the last 8 years. He has also acted as an advisor to government and/
or industry in relation to the analysis of veterinary drug residues, especially
illegal drugs, in food of animal origin in countries, including Thailand, China,
Brazil, Bangladesh, Chile, Georgia, Portugal, Mexico, Myanmar, Vietnam,Taiwan,
and Ecuador. Kennedy has authored more than 175 refereed scientific papers.
Paula N. Brown,
British Columbia Institute of
Technology (BCIT), Burnaby,
BC, Canada
Paul Wehling
General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis,
Minnesota, USA
The Methods Committee Advisor of the Year Award is given to a Committee
Statistician, Safety, or other Advisor in recognition of outstanding service in
assisting Study Directors in reviewing methods, protocols, and collaborative
studies.
COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR presented to:
Glenn Kennedy
Agriculture Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI), Chemical
Surveillance Branch, Veterinary
Science Division, Stormont,
Belfast, United Kingdom
Ana Gago-Martinez
University of Vigo, Analytical
Chemistry and Food Department,
Vigo, Spain
The 2011 Community Volunteer of the Year Award (Marine and Fresh Water
Toxins) is presented to ANA GAGO-MARTINEZ, professor at the University
of Vigo and Director of the European Community Reference Laboratory on
Marine Biotoxins. She is Vice President of the Galician Chemical Society and is
a member of the AOAC Task Force on Marine and Freshwater Toxins, Spanish
Society of Analytical Chemistry, International Association of Analytical Chemists, the American Chemical Society, and an elected member at the Senate
of the University of Vigo. As an invited lecturer, Gago-Martinez has attended
several national and international conferences in the field of algal toxins. She
has made scientific contributions to more than 80 publications in the field
of analysis of marine toxins and received more than 20 grants awarded for
participation in national and international research projects. Gago-Martinez
earned a Masters Degree in Analytical Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Philosophy.
AOAC is pleased to present the 2011 Community Volunteer of the Year Award
(Dietary Supplements) to ROBERT A. LABUDDE for his service as Statistical
Advisor. LaBudde has been president of Least Cost Formulations, Ltd., since
1979, and has served on the faculties of the University of Wisconsin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Old Dominion University, and North Carolina
State University. He is currently Associate Professor of Statistics at Old Dominion University.
The Expert Review Panel (ERP) of the Year Award recognizes an ERP Chair
who has made significant contributions in providing independent, expert
technical review which is shown in the panel’s report in regards to innovative
technology or application, breadth of applicability, critical need, difficulty in
analysis, and/or timeliness.
Robert A. LaBudde
Least Cost Formulations, Ltd.,
Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA