Staying Alive: A Musical Look at Contemporary Food Safety Issues
Friday, May 30, 8:30 - 9:30 PM
 Dr. Carl Winter is the Director of the FoodSafe Program and an Extension Food Toxicologist in the Department of Food Science and Technology at the University of California at Davis. Prior to coming to Davis in 1991, he was an Extension Toxicologist at the University of California at Riverside from 1987-91, a science writer for the Richmond-Times Dispatch newspaper in 1985, and an Environmental Hazards Specialist with the California Department of Food and Agriculture from 1980-83. He holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry and a B.S. in Environmental Toxicology, both from the University of California at Davis. His research and outreach work focus upon pesticide residues and naturally-occurring toxins in foods. He has authored two books and 100 publications in both the scientific and lay literature. He gives 40-50 news media interviews annually and has frequently been invited to testify before the U.S. Congress on pesticide/food safety issues. He has also served as a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences, as Chairperson of the Institute of Food Technologists’ Food Science Communicators, and as a member of the United Nations/World Health Organization’s Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives.
He's been called the "Elvis of E. coli," the "Sinatra of Salmonella," and the "Artist Formerly Known as Prince of Pesticides" by various news media sources. To perform his duties in providing science-based food safety information, he has added a new wrinkle in information dissemination – food safety music! Armed with a synthesizer, Dr. Winter performs musical parodies of contemporary popular music by modifying lyrics to make them appropriate to food safety issues such as bacterial contamination, irradiation, biotechnology, government regulation, and pesticides. He has educated and rocked audiences throughout the country with his interactive live performances while more than twenty thousand of his self-produced CDs have been distributed throughout the world. He was recently awarded with a USDA grant to study the effectiveness of incorporating music into existing food safety educational curricula. He is also the 2003 recipient of the Hod Ogden Medal presented by the US Centers for Disease Control and the Association of State and Territorial Directors of Health Promotion and Public Health Education recognizing imaginative and creative efforts that have positively influenced the advancement of health promotion. To find out more about his music, visit his website at http://foodsafe.ucdavis.edu/music.html.
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