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Bhabani P. Dey, D.V.M. Born in India, Bhabani P. Dey earned his D.V.M. (Veterinary Medicine) in his home country. He earned his Diploma in Industrial Microbiology and membership in the Royal Society of Health (MRSH) in England, his M.S. in Diagnostic Microbiology, M.P.H. in Epidemiology, and his Ph.D. in Food Microbiology/Toxicology in the United States (University of Missouri, Columbia). His areas of expertise are diagnostic and food microbiology; disinfectants and antiseptics; antibiotics and chemical residues, epidemiology and veterinary public health. Currently, he works for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS), Animal and Egg Production Food Safety Staff, Washington, D.C. where he coordinates various programs concerning food safety. In his 23-year career with the FSIS, he has worked as a microbiologist and epidemiologist as well as a veterinary medical officer in the area of antibiotics, antimicrobials, diagnostic and food microbiology, residual chemicals, auditing and equivalence determination of meat inspection systems of foreign countries. He received training in the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service policy for export and import of animals and animal products. As a graduate student he developed the D/E Neutralizing Medium now commercially available through Difco Laboratories and widely used in the evaluation of antiseptics and disinfectants. He also devised kits and developed procedures for determination of environmental sanitation and detection of residual antibiotics in meat. Recently he collaborated with the Instrumentation and Sensing Laboratory of the Agriculture Research Service and used spectroscopy for detecting diseased poultry. He has presented and published a number of research articles. His most recent research Comparison of monolayer and bilayer plates Used in the Antibiotic assay was published in 1998 (AOAC, 81(2); 398:402). Dr. Dey was the lead editor of the Microbiology Laboratory Guidebook, 3rd Edition, published in 1998, used by the FSIS Microbiology Division for analyzing meat and poultry. His earlier research Impact of Screen Tests on Antibiotic and Sulfonamide Residues in Food Animals was presented in 1997 in the 12th International Symposium World Association of Veterinary Food Hygienists, The Hague, Netherlands. Dr. Dey has been rewarded for his work with an award from FDA for supporting FDA’s Outreach Program in South America, two USDA Departmental Honor Awards for Excellence (Equivalence Determination, 1999 and investigation an E. coli outbreak, 1993); two USDA Certificates of Merit (publication of the USDA-FSIS Monograph Mycobacterioses in Swine and Their Significance to Public Health, 1986 and establishment of Residue Laboratory, 1978) and two Time-Off awards (Briefing Book for Exporting Foreign Countries, 1998 and for public meeting on equivalency determination, 1999). Dr. Dey is a member of the American Society for Microbiology, Sigma Xi, Gamma Sigma Delta and National Registry for Microbiologists. |
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