Industrial Food Safety/Quality Microbiologist

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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Dr. Kornacki is a forsensic food industrial micorbiologist. H has assisted many companies during FDA and USDA product recalls and has made about 1000 troubleshooting related plant visits across a vast array of food processing industries in the past 36 years. He frequently, evaluates food production facility enviornments for pathogens and spoilage organisms, performs microbiological risk assessments, consults on hygienic operations, maintenance/repair practices and equipment and facility design. He has invented micorbiological indicator assays and has ben an adjunct faculty with Michigan State's On-Line Master's program for many years. In 2010 he received the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) Sanitarian award, their Fellow award in 2017, the Harold Barnum Industry award (2024) and the Maurice Weber Laboratorian award (2024). He was Chairman of IAFP’s Food Hygiene and Sanitation Professional Development Group from 2011 to 2013 and has published nearly 80 articles on many food microbiology topics. He is Editor and Co-author of several books including, "Principles of Microbiological Troubleshooting in the Industrial Food Processing Environment (2010), “The Microbiological Safety of Low Water Activity Foods and Spices” (2014), “Foodborne Pathogens: Virulence Factors and Host Susceptibility” (2017) and “Standard Methods for the Examination of Dairy Products -18th edition” (2024). From 2013 to 2015 he was NACMCF Co-Chairman of the subcommittee on “Microbiological Criteria as Indicators of Process Control or Insanitary conditions.” He remains and active investigator, instructor, inventor and writer.