Quant. MAC Working Group Meeting Book (March 13, 2019)

AOAC INTERNATIONAL QUANTITATIVE MICROBIOLOGY VALIDATION METHODS ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA

Patrick Bird PMB Biotek Consulting

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. Prior to starting his own business, Pat’s most recent role was the supervisor of a research and development laboratory where he worked on 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 the AOAC RI team as a technical consultant, where he works on the development of validation outlines for method developers.

Pat has been an active member within AOAC International for over 12 years, serving as an at-large member to the AOAC RI Board of Directors and serving two terms 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 has also been a part of a team that has won three awards for Multi-Laboratory Study of the Year, most recently in 2018. Pat is also an active member of the US ISO/TC34/SC9 Food Microbiology serving on two working groups: 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.

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