E. Spencer Garrett
Director, NOAA National Seafood Inspection Laboratory
Mr. Garrett is the Director of the National Seafood Inspection Laboratory located in Pascagoula, MS. That facility was one of the largest seafood testing laboratories in the U.S. before it was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi. He has served as a seafood safety and public health consultant to both FAO and WHO and to his credit has over 200 presentations, feasibility studies, and/or publications dealing with increasing consumer protection in the consumption of fishery products. At the request of Congress, in cooperation with other State and Federal agencies, he led the design of a new mandatory Seafood Inspection Program based upon the HACCP system concept. He is among the most contemporary published authors of the HACCP concept. He has received numerous outstanding and superlative performance awards during his career including the NOAA Gold Medal, Bronze Medal and Lifetime Career Achievement Award.