Ted Labuza

Labuza is known internationally as one of the top experts on kinetics of reactions related to loss in food quality, nutrient degradation and pathogen growth and death kinetics. 

He is also well known for his teaching, working with and mentoring Ph.D. students, post-docs and visiting scientists. He has helped over 48 mentees gain faculty positions around the world, most of whom (if not retired) are doing research on reaction kinetics. 

In 2002, ISI cited Labuza as one of six researchers as the "Most Highly Cited Scientists" in the Agriculture and Food Science area, based on an evaluation of the past 20 years. He is the author or co-author of over 289 scientific refereed research articles, 18 textbooks, 78 book chapters, eight patents and more than 100 other semi-technical articles. He has 14 refereed research papers, books or chapters and reviews that have now been cited more than 200 times in other research papers or books, two at over 600 times and six others between 300-400 times, another five between 200-300 times and 30 more between 100-200.  His research group has published an average of 10 research papers a year since 2010, including work in the Journal of Food Science, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Journal of Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Sciences, Analyst, Journal of the Royal Chemical Society (UK), Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Food Chemistry (UK), Journal of Food Protection and Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. 

His research over the past seven years has been supported by grants from the Department of Homeland Security through the National Center for Food Protection and Defense, as US Center of Excellence a the University of Minnesota, as well as grants from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Additionally, he has received grants from the American Egg Board, Almond Board of California, Dairy Research Inc., and the Minnesota Beef Council. 

Areas of Interest

• Water activity


• Food stability


• Food safety


• Food law


• Shelf life testing


• Glass Transition Phenomena


• Shelf life dating


• RFID tags


• Bioterrorism


• Food labeling


• Contaminants in food


• Time-Temperature Integrator Tag

Teaching

FSCN 1102 - Food: Safety, Risks & Technology (Spring)

Select Publications

Experts@Minnesota Research Profile

Service

Professional Affiliations

• Institute of Food Technologists (1959-present); President (1988-89)


• International Union of Food Science and Technology (lifetme member); Co-chair International Food Safety Committee


• American Chemical Society (1962-present)


• International Association of Food Protection (1971-present)


• American Institute of Chemical Engineers (1971-present)


• American Association of Cereal Chemists (1971-1992)


• 2001-2003 IFT Food Research Task Force


• 2000-2003 IFT Nominations and Elections Committee


• 2001 to present Board of Editors 8 Journals including J. of Innovative Food Science and Technologies


• 1973 to present Graduate Faculty of Nutrition


• 1971 to present Graduate Faculty of Food Science


• 2001 to present Academy of Distingushed Teachers Steering Committee


• 2001 to present Teaching Colleagues Committee


• 1997 to present The Retail Food Industry Center

Awards

Scholarly Research Awards and Honors

• American Society of Nutrition/IFT Gilbert Leveille Lecturer Award (2015)


• IFT International Bor Luh Award (2014)


• IFT Minnesota Section Macy Award (2013) 


• University of Minnesota Post-doc Association Award for Best Research Mentoring of post-docs (2012)


• Honorary Visiting Scientist, Jingnan University, Wuxi China (2011)


• Lifetime Achievement award from the International Association of Engineering and Food (2011)


• IFT Tanner Lecturer (2007)


• Sigma Xi National Distinguished Lecturer (2006-08)


• IFT Reister Davis Award (2006)


• University of Minnesota Walk of Fame (2006)


• World Innovation Foundation Fellow (2004)


• ISI Most Highly Cited Scientist List for past 20 years in agriculture and food science (2002)


• IFT Food Engineering Division Honored Lecturer (2000)


• IUFOST Fellow (1999)


• IFT Marcel Loncin Research Prize (1998)


• IFT Nicholas Appert Award (1998)


• University of Helsinki President's Award (1998)


• Dairy and Food Industries/American Society of Agricultural Engineers Food Engineer Award (1995)


• US Department of Defense High Heat Environment Food Quality Task Force (1990-91)


• University of Florida General Foods Lecturer (1989)


• Institute of Food Technologists Babcock Hart Nutrition Award (1988)


• Institute of Food Technologists President (1988-89)


• University of Illinois Louis B. Howard Lectureship (1987)


• IFT Fellow (1979)


• NASA Certificate of Merit (1973, 1974, 1976)


• IFT Samuel Cate Prescott Award (1972)

Academic Honors

• College of Human Ecology Advisory Council Award for Innovation and Mission Advancement (2005)


• University of Minnesota Senior Teaching Fellow (2004-05)


• University of Minnesota College of Human Ecology McFarland Outstanding Teaching Award (2001)


• University of Minnesota Academy of Distinguished Teachers (1999)


• Perth Amboy High School (NJ) Hall of Fame (1992)


• University of Minnesota H.T. Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award (1988)


• Minnesota Student Association Gordon L. Starr Service Award (1987)


• IFT Cruess Award (1979)


• MIT Department of Nutrition and Food Science Outstanding Teaching Award (1970)


• Campbell Soup Company Fellowship (1962)


• IFT Dodge and Olcott Scholarship (1960)


• Perth Amboy Rotary Club Scholarship (1958)

Who's Who editions (note year elected shown - continues to present)

• Who’s Who in American Men and Women of Science (1997)


• Who's Who in Science and Engineering (1997)


• Who’s Who in American Educators (1996)


• Who’s Who in the World (1995)


• Who’s Who in Business and Finance (1994)


• Who’s Who in America (1993)


• Who’s Who in the Midwest  (1992)


• Who’s Who in Environmental Science  (1992)


• Who's Who in Frontiers of Science and Technology (1990)


• Who’s Who in Technology (1990)


• Who's Who in Men of Science (1980)