Keith Belk, PhD
Dr. Keith Belk is the Director of Eurofins’ Advanced Learning Institute and Professor and Holder of the Monfort Endowed Chair, Center for Meat Safety & Quality, Colorado State University (CSU), and as an Adjunct Professor in the Colorado School of Public Health. Previously, he served as Professor and Head of the Department of Animal Sciences at CSU. He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from CSU, and a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. He currently serves in a consulting role as the Director of Education for Eurofins Rapid Microbiology Laboratories, LLC. Dr. Belk is also a member of the International Committee for the National Western Stock Show, the Board of Directors for the International Stockmen’s Educational Foundation, on the Academic Advisory Committee for the Meat Institute Protein PACT, and on the technical advisory committees for Sustainable Beef, JBS, Colorado Premium Foods, and Hawkins.
Below are resources from Dr. Keith Belk:
New options for sweetening low-sugar foods have entered the market. Testing of sweetener ingredients and the finished product is key.
Dietary supplement using immune-based ingredients have significantly increased over the last few years. Learn more on which trendy ingredients are being used and how to comply with the FDA guidelines on dietary supplements and functional food products.
While many vitamins are traditionally sourced from animal products, plant-based vitamin sources are a growing trend. Learn more about this new trend and what this means in regard to testing your products.
Candies can now give you more than a sugar rush. Functional chocolates also have vitamins, minerals, and botanicals and with that means the need for suitable validated methods to verify claims. Eurofins is your partner is all challenging vitamin, mineral, and botanical testing in finished products and raw materials.
Is Front-of-Package Labeling right for you? Learn how Front-of-Package Labeling affects nutritional value and market sales, and how Eurofins can help with testing your products and generating nutritional and dietary supplement facts panels.
Learn about the most common food pathogens and their impact in food handling and production. Testing your products can help manage risk of contamination from pathogens. Partner with Eurofins for all of your food safety testing needs.
Whole-Genome Sequencing aids in tracking foodborne illnesses and drug resistance in food pathogens. Read on to learn how WGS ensures food safety and quality.
In this blog article Jeff Stassi discusses the importance of designing a meaningful, comprehensive testing program for dietary supplements.
Eurofins has completed the development and validation of a ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS) method for low-level quantification in CBD isolate matrices.
Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), in particular, is a group of E. coli strains most associated with foodborne outbreaks. As food producers, you have the responsibility to ensure your consumers don't become a statistic. Read on to learn more about STEC and other food pathogens and how to eliminate them from your products.
