Pamela Tom
Sea Grant Extension Program
Food Science and Technology
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616-8598
Tel: (530) 752-2194
Pamela Tom
Seafood Extension Program Manager
The numerous outreach programs and educational activities conducted by Pamela Tom both in the United States and overseas transfer technical information to a varied audience: seafood processors and distributors, importers, inspectors, retailers, analytical laboratories, educators, researchers and consumers.
Tom collaborates with Sea Grant programs, agency and industry colleagues to plan professional seafood workshops and conferences that teach skills and share relevant scientific information. For example, the popular “sensory decomposition” hands-on training sessions, which Tom organizes in conjunction with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and NOAA’s Seafood Inspection Program, give participants guidance in using their senses of sight and smell to judge if fish samples would pass FDA standards.
Tom maintains the Seafood Network Information Center Web site SeafoodNIC, a clearinghouse for seafood information, and the source of a host of topics ranging from regulations, product development and marketing to consumer safety. In addition, she maintains several seafood listservs including those on HAACP seafood-safety management and the California Seafood Industry Outreach for seafood professionals that issue timely updates and advisories.
Most recently Tom has collaborated with Georgia Sea Grant in establishing the Safe Oysters Web site that deals with Vibrio vulnificus health issues. She is also collaborating with Florida State University on a Web site dealing with banned drugs and other substances in seafood.
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