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
Submit a Nomination
Thank you for your interest in this award. Our electronic application/nomination process is currently under development. Please return for updates by early November.
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