Patrick Bird is a Sr. Manager of Scientific Affairs at bioMérieux, collaborating with industry and regulatory agencies to develop and advance science based standards and regulations. Pat has 18+ years’ experience in the validation of microbiology analytical test methods coordinating more than a 100 validations studies following AOAC, ISO, Health Canada and EPA guidelines.
Pat is a member of several technical working groups, including ASTM D37, AOAC CASP, NIHC, IFSH, IAFP and the MicroVal Technical Committee and served as an accreditation reviewer for A2LA. Pat is also actively involved in several ISO working groups within TC34 (food)/SC9 (microbiology) with a focus in WG3 (method validation) where he is a co-project leader for the development of ISO 16140-7 (method identification) and 16140-8 (validation guidelines for viruses and parasites and the development of Amnd. 1 to ISO 16140-2 (method validation).
Pat has presented numerous webinars and at scientific conferences (AOAC, IAFP, MJBiz Con, IFT) on microbiology validation for the food and cannabis industries and served as the primary author for the microbiology chapter (Laboratory Safety and Compliance Testing for Microorganism Contamination) in the Cannabis Laboratory Fundamentals textbook.
Pat holds a BS in microbiology from the Ohio State University and a MS in Food Safety from Michigan State University
Patrick Bird, Senior Manager of Scientific Affairs at bioMérieux, presented “Innovative Method Development to Meet the Needs for the Cannabis Industry" on the first day of Cannabis Science Conference in the Analytical Track.
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