Food Safety Advancement Award

The Food Safety Advancement Award recognizes an individual, group, or organization that has made a significant contribution to advancing food safety worldwide. The award honors achievements that demonstrate meaningful progress in protecting the food supply through a new or innovative idea, practice, process, program, technology, research contribution, educational initiative, policy advancement, or other significant accomplishment.

The recipient’s contribution should demonstrate measurable or clearly identifiable impact on food safety and have the potential to influence practices, knowledge, systems, or outcomes beyond the immediate setting in which the work was developed. The award consists of an engraved award and a $2,000 honorarium.

Qualifications for nominees

• Individual, group, or organization from industry (including consulting), academia, or government involved in food safety program development and implementation, food safety research, education, policy, and/or information
  • Individual nominees must be an IAFP Member in good standing at the time of nomination and during the IAFP Annual Meeting when the award is presented.
  • For group or organization nominees, at least one member of the group or employee of the organization must be an IAFP Member in good standing at the time of nomination and during the IAFP Annual Meeting when the award is presented.
• Nominees should be involved in areas such as food safety research, program development and implementation, education, policy, technology, information exchange, training, or other activities that contribute to advancing food safety.
• The nominee must have played a significant role in developing, leading, implementing, or advancing the contribution for which they are being recognized.

Previous recipients of the Food Safety Innovation Award, Food Safety Award, IAFP Executive Board Members, and IAFP Awards Committee Members are not eligible.

• Sponsored by: Ecolab