2017 Wisconsin Cheese Industry Conference

Mickey Parish

Klondike Cheese Co.


Dr. Parish is the Senior Advisor for Microbiology in the United States Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Office of Food Safety in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN). He has served in this position since 2009, after a successful 23-year academic career in positions at the University of Florida and the University of Maryland. Dr. Parish is active in the food safety profession and is a member of IAFP, IFT, ASM, FDLI and AAAS. He currently serves as Secretary of IAFP, and is on the Executive Advisory Board of the Institute of Food Safety and Health at IIT. Dr. Parish received his B.S. in Biological Science from Florida State University and an M.S. in Food Science from the University of Florida. He holds a Ph.D. in Food Science, with a minor in Microbiology, from North Carolina State University, where he also completed a one-year post-doctorate working on genetics of lactic acid bacteria.

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