Bernard and Bennett to Receive Food Safety Magazine Distinguished Service Award
Food Safety Magazine recently announced that Dane Bernard, M.Sc., and Reginald W. Bennett, M.Sc., will receive the magazine’s Distinguished Service Award at the 2017 annual meeting of the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP), July 9–12 in Tampa, FL.
Bernard, currently the managing director of Bold Bear Food Safety, and Bennett, senior policy analyst at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, will be presented with the award during the IAFP awards reception and banquet on Wednesday, July 12.
Bernard served as vice president of food safety and quality assurance at Keystone Foods until 2014. He was responsible for global programs on Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) and food safety. Prior to joining Keystone, he was vice president of food safety for the National Food Processors Association, where he had worked since 1973. A registered specialist in food, dairy and sanitation microbiology with the American Academy of Microbiology, Bernard has done extensive testing of food processing systems, supervised research in many areas of food safety and has authored/coauthored several technical articles. He has been an instructor and lecturer on principles and applications of HACCP and has helped formulate HACCP plans for the U.S. food industry. Bernard has been invited as an expert to five International Consultations sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization that dealt with certain aspects of HACCP, risk analysis and other food safety issues. He received an M.Sc. in food microbiology from University of Maryland, College Park.