Food Safety, Security, and Production
CAHNRS faculty conduct a breadth and depth of research on food safety, security, and production.
Center of Excellence for Food Safety
- Juming Tang, Director, engineering & process design
- Shyam Sablani, Associate Director, packaging & shelf life studies
- Karina Gallardo, consumer & market studies
- Carolyn Ross, food quality & nutrition
Produce and dairy safety
- Faith Critzer, produce safety
- Minto Michael, dairy science
- Stephanie Smith, consumer food safety
Securing food against pests and diseases
- Clean Plant Center Northwest
- Lisa DeVetter, diseases of berries & other small fruits
- Lindsey du Toit, diseases of small-seeded vegetable seed crops
- Charles Edwards, wine spoilage
- Cynthia Gleason, plant parasitic nematodes
- Gary Grove, fungal diseases of stone fruits, grapes, and hops
- Scott Harper, viruses and other systemic pathogens of perennial crops
- David James, conservation biological control in grapes
- Timothy Murray, diseases of small grains
- Hanu Pappu, viral diseases of horticultural crops
- Naidu A. Rayapati, viral diseases of grapes and vegetables
- Doug Walsh, Washington State Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Coordinator
Developing high quality foods
- Bhaskar Bondada, grapevine health and fruit quality
- Tom Collins, grape and wine chemistry
- Min Du, meat quality and animal production efficiency
- Jim Harbertson, wine chemistry and production
- Markus Keller, crop physiology of wine and juice grapes
- Jill McCluskey, economics of food quality
- Carol Miles, high-value vegetables and WSU Cider Research
- Michelle Moyer, wine and juice grape quality
- Carolyn Ross, sensory perception of foods and wines
Tree fruit postharvest
- Achour Amiri, tree fruit disease management
- Lee Kalcsits, physiological interactions between environment, genetics, and management in tree fruit
- Carolina Torres, tree fruit postharvest systems
Vegetable Post Harvest
- Jake Blauer, potato
- Lindsey du Toit, onion
- Richard Knowles, Professor Emeritus, potato
- G.N. Mohan Kumar, potato
Food processing, preservation, and packaging
- Center for Nonthermal Processing of Food
- Gustavo Barbosa-Cánovas, nonthermal technologies for food preservation
- Girish Ganjyal, value-added, extrusion, and direct steam injection food processing
- Shyam Sablani, innovative food packaging solutions
- Juming Tang, microwave and radio frequency thermal processes to produce high quality shelf-stable food