Taylor, T. Professor

Dr. Taylor's primary research interests are in the validation of antimicrobial interventions and processes to ensure the safety of human and animal foods. He leads USDA-supported competitive research collaboratively developing machine learning-type tools to assist the U.S. meat industry in food safety validation from human pathogens such as Salmonella, the Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, and Listeria monocytogenes. He has led multiple research studies developing microbiological data to be applied to validation of rendered animal offal safety to assist the U.S. rendering industries in producing safe materials for use in pet food and other consumer products. He collaborates with researchers to determine the movement of human pathogens into and adjacent to livestock production areas to help improve overall public health protection.



Dr. Taylor is working to integrate artificial intelligence-type analysis systems into food safety validation research, in order to improve overall U.S. food safety protection efforts.