President's Lifetime Achievement Award

Given at the discretion of the IAFP President to recognize an individual who has made a lasting impact on "Advancing Food Safety Worldwide" through a lifetime of professional achievement in food protection.

• 2025 Recipient(s): J. Stan Bailey

Past Awardees

• 2024 Don L. Zink
• 2023 Jeff Farber
• 2022 Katherine M.J. Swanson
• 2021 Carl Custer
• 2020 Dallas G. Hoover
• 2019 Gary R. Acuff
• 2018 Jenny Scott
• 2017 Christine Bruhn
• 2016 Thomas Montville
• 2015 Gale Prince
• 2014 John Sofos
• 2013 William H. Sperber
• 2012 Robert L. Buchanan
• 2011 O.D. "Pete" Cook
• 2010 Wilbur Feagan
• 2009 R. Bruce Tompkin
• 2008 Samuel A. Palumbo
• 2007 Alexander von Holy
• 2004 Reginald W. Bennett