Silva selected for international advisory board
Juan Silva
A Mississippi State University professor has been selected from a pool of nearly 100 candidates to the nine-member Executive Board of the Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance.
Juan Silva, a food science, nutrition and health promotion professor, will serve two years on the newly created Executive Advisory Board which consists of representatives from industry, academia and government.
Established in 2011, the Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance supports safe food production for the U.S. market by developing a core curriculum and corresponding technical educational materials about food safety risk-reduction preventive controls that comply with the Food Safety Modernization Act.
The group has developed curricula on preventive controls for human and animal foods, foreign supplier verification programs and how to protect against the intentional adulteration or altering foods to cause wide-scale harm to public health.
A 35-year MSU veteran, Silva teaches at the undergraduate and graduate level, conducts research in the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, and is a food safety specialist in the MSU Extension Service. He is a fellow in the Institute of Food Technologists.
MSU is Mississippi’s leading university, available online at www.msstate.edu.
Karen Brasher | Agriculture and Natural Resources Marketing
