Food Safety Award

The recipient of the Food Safety Award will receive a personalized plaque and $2,000 Honorarium at IAFP 2026. This Award alternates between individuals and groups or organizations. In 2026, the award will be presented to an individual for highly significant food safety development or in recognition of a long history of outstanding contributions to food safety.

• Sponsored by: Consumer Brands Association (CBA)
• 2025 Recipient(s): Microbiological Analysis Laboratories Section - Dubai Central Laboratories

Past Awardees

• 2024 Caroline Smith DeWaal
• 2023 Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance
• 2022 Ann Marie McNamara
• 2021 The Center for Produce Safety
• 2020 Joseph Stout
• 2019 Almond Board of California
• 2018 Jenny Scott
• 2017 Center for Food Safety Engineering and Department of Food Science - Purdue University
• 2016 Dale Morton
• 2015 Elliot Ryser
• 2014 Silliker, Inc.
• 2013 Vijay Juneja
• 2012 Kansas State University, University of Wisconsin–River Falls
• 2011 Edmund A. Zottola
• 2010 Cornell Institute of Food Science
• 2009 Joy Gaze
• 2008 International Commission on Microbiological Specifications for Foods (ICMSF)
• 2007 John N. Sofos
• 2006 Microbial Food Safety Research Unit (ARS/USDA)
• 2005 Larry R. Beuchat
• 2004 The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network
• 2003 Katherine Swanson
• 2002 Nelson Cox
• 2001 R. Bruce Tompkin
• 2000 Elmer H. Marth
• 1999 Michael P. Doyle
• 1998 Food Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin