Current Rapid Methods for Detection of foodborne pathogens

Stan Bailey
(2008 IAFP President)
Director Scientific Affairs - Industry
bioMerieux

Dr. Bailey has authored or coauthored over 500 scientific publications in the area of food microbiology, concentrating on controlling Salmonella in poultry production and processing, Salmonella methodology, Listeria methodology, and rapid methods of identification.

Dr. Bailey is currently the president of The International Association for Food Protection (IAFP). Dr. Bailey was named Outstanding Senior Research Scientist for the USDA, Agricultural Research Service.

Dr. Bailey is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and IAFP. He served as Chair of the Food Microbiology Division of the American Society of Microbiology in 1992, as Secretary for the AOAC Microbial Methods Committee from 1990-95. Internationally, Dr. Bailey has served as an expert consultant to the Foreign Agriculture Organization of the U.N., as a technical expert to the USDA negotiating team that secured agreements with Russia which led to 350 million dollars a year in exports by the U.S. poultry industry, and has presented invited talks in Australia, Taiwan, Japan, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, England, and Brazil.

Awards in include:
the 1992 Continental Grain, Poultry Products Research Award,
the 1994 National Broiler Council, Broiler Research Award,
the 1997 Federal Laboratory Consortium Technology Transfer award
the 2003 Maurice Weber Laboratorian of the year award from IAFP

Dr. Bailey holds seven U.S. patents. As scientific advisor to the International Life Sciences Institute food microbiology committee since 1997, Dr. Bailey has worked closely with the Directors of Food Safety for many of the largest food companies in the U.S.
Dr. Bailey received his B.S. in Environmental Health Sciences, M.S. in Food Science, and Ph.D. in Poultry Science all from the University of Georgia.
Dr. Bailey moved to bioMerieux as Director Scientific Affairs - Industry in 2007.