Tareq Osaili

Tareq Osaili, is a Professor of Food Safety at the Department of Clinical Nutrition in the College of Health Sciences at University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. He finished his Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas, USA. In the past two decades, his research focused on detection and inactivation of pathogenic microorganisms in food using innovative techniques and assessment of food safety knowledge, attitude and practice of the communities. Prof Osaili has published more than 270 original research and review articles in peer reviewed international journals and contributed in many book chapters. He co-edited a book “Food Safety in the Middle East” published by Elsevier. Prof. Osaili has been selected as Expert at the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meetings on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) for five years.