Speaker Biography
Donald Singer
Donald C. Singer is a Certified Specialist Microbiologist in consumer and industrial microbiology and a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Examiner. He is a second term member of the USP Microbiology and Sterility Assurance Expert Committee and has participated on the advisory team for the ICH working group on harmonization of global microbiological methods. Singer has been a member of the Food Drug and Cosmetic Division of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) since 1982, was chair of the FDC Division in 2003-2004 and is presently a National Director of ASQ. He has 30 years of research, quality control, quality assurance, and laboratory management experience in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, food, beverage, hospital products and medical device industries. He is a co-author of "Laboratory Auditing for Quality and Regulatory Compliance", and editor of "A Laboratory Quality Handbook of Best Practices", as well as author of various other journal publications dealing with microbiology laboratory practices, sanitation awareness in manufacturing, microbiological control of water systems, and sanitary engineering. He has developed and taught courses concerning microbiological control, cGMPs, personal hygiene and product safety, including an ongoing series of workshops for the American Society for Microbiology and is a visiting adjunct biopharmaceutical instructor at the University of Maryland. He has been a member of the AOAC Technical Laboratory Accreditation committee which developed the Criteria for Laboratories Performing Microbiological and Chemical Analyses in Foods, Feeds and Pharmaceutical Testing to complement ISO 17025, and most recently a member of the AOAC Laboratory Proficiency Testing Program Advisory Committee and the Presidential Task Force on Best Practices in Microbiological Methodology. Singer holds a Masters degree in microbiology from the University of Dayton.