E. Spencer Garrett, Ph.D.

E. Spencer Garrett, Ph.D.
Director, National Seafood Inspection Laboratory
Pascagoula, MS

E. Spencer Garrett serves as Director of the National Seafood Inspection Laboratory in Pascagoula, Mississippi which is recognized as a premier seafood public health and information transfer center and provides scientific services to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Marine Fisheries Service's Seafood Inspection and Certification Program. He has received national and international recognition for his strong scientific, technical and administrative abilities in developing, executing, and evaluating complicated food safety, quality, and food hygiene programs. He serves as his Agency's representative on the Interagency Mercury Working Group of the Executive Office of the President's Office of Science and Technology.
He received his under graduate and graduate degrees in microbiology from the University of Southern Mississippi and currently serves as the North American Representative on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Fish Inspectors, has served as the USA Delegate to the Codex International Food Standards Programme Committee on Food Hygiene sponsored by the Foreign Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization of the United Nations and currently serves on the prestigious National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods.
Author or coauthor of more than 200 scientific and technical papers and/or feasibility studies and presentations dealing with measures to improve consumer protection in the consumption of fishery products. Spencer is among the most contemporarily published authors of the HACCP concept. He presently serves as his agency's representative to the National Academy of Science "Food Forum" and the Interagency Committee on Human Nutrition and is his Agency's principle spokesperson on seafood safety issues.