AOAC CASP Meeting

September 7, 2019 AOAC CASP Meeting – Presenter Bios

Patrick M. Bird, M.S. PMB BioTek Consulting LLC Owner

Pat has been an active member of the food safety community for the last 15 years serving in numerous roles including manufacturing and laboratory management before starting his own consulting business in 2018. Pat spent extensive time as the supervisor of a R&D laboratory where he oversaw the development and validation of rapid diagnostic methods for microbiology, allergens and mycotoxins. As a consultant, Pat continues to work with method developers, laboratories and industry to optimize method performance and testing workflow. In December 2018, Pat joined AOAC INTERNATIONAL as a technical consultant, where he works on the development of validation outlines for the Performance Tested Methods SM (PTM) and Official Method of Analysis SM (OMA) processes. Pat has been an active member within AOAC INTERNATIONAL for over 12 years, serving on the AOAC Research Institute Board of Directors and as the microbiology community lead for AOAC’s Technical Programing Council. Pat has authored and co-authored over 40 peer reviewed publications and has presented over 15 OMA validations to the Microbiology Expert Review Panel as part of the OMA First Action submission process. Pat is a member of A2LA’s Laboratory Accreditation Council, and actively participates in many working groups including ASTM D37 on Cannabis , ASTM E35 on Pesticides, Antimicrobials and Alternative Control Agents , IAFP’s Applied Laboratory Methods working group on method validation and verification and two working groups in US ISO/TC34/SC9 Food Microbiology: WG3 for Method Validation and WG19 Guidelines for conducting challenge studies. Pat holds a BS in Microbiology from the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and a MS in Food Safety from Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI.