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