Manan Sharma

Dr. Manan Sharma is a Senior Director of Produce and Food Safety at the The Acheson Group. He also currently serves as the President of the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP). Before strating at the Acheson Group, He spent 21 years working as a Lead Scientist and Research Microbiologist at the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) in Beltsville, Maryland. His research focuses on pre-harvest produce safety issues and its intersection with environmental sustainability, including persistence of bacterial and parasitic pathogens in water and manure- amended soils. He has collaborated on multi-institutional produce safety research projects in his career, and has authored and co-authored close to 100 scientific papers on produce safety He has also collaborated with the Food and Drug Administration to provide scientific data for the Produce Safety Rule of FSMA. He was awarded the International Association for Food Protection Mauric