Food Safety Award

The recipient of the Food Safety Award will receive a personalized plaque and $2,000 Honorarium at IAFP 2025. This Award alternates between individuals and groups or organizations. In 2025, the award will be presented to a company or organization 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)
• 2024 Recipient(s): Caroline Smith DeWaal

Past Awardees

• 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