Rapid Methods for food safety/quality and a Look into the Future

Daniel Y.C. Fung
Professor, Dept. Animal Science and Industries
Kansas State University

Dr. Daniel Y.C. Fung is professor of Food Science in the Department of Animal Sciences and Industry at Kansas State University. He has gained an international reputation as a lecturer on rapid methods and automation in microbiology at symposia in Sweden, Germany, Great Britain, France, Czechoslovakia, Canada, Israel, Italy, Peoples Rebulic of China, Singapore, Finland, Iceland, Brazil, Thailand, Colombia, Poland, Hungary, Zimbabwe, Chile, Argentina, Hong Kang, the Philippines, Korea, Taiwan, and the United States.

He has more than 600 publications in journals, books, and proceedings, and is the recipient of the 1997 International Award given by the Institute of Food Technologists because of the uniqueness of this workshop series.

He has organized the Kansas State University International Workshop (Rapid Methods in Food Microbiology Workshop) for the past 25 years.

He is editor of Journal of Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology, a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM), Institute of Food Technologists, and International Academy of Food Science and Technology. He presented an invited lecture at Pasteur Institute in Paris during the 100th year commemoration of Pasteur's death in 1995. He won the 2001 Waksman Outstanding Educator Award given by the Society for Industrial Microbiology.

2006 Designated as University Distinguished Professor at Universitat
Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
2007 Professorial Performance Award, Kansas State University
2007 Inaugural Outstanding Educator in Food Safety Award given by Food
Safety Magazine and ConAgra Foods at IAFP Meeting