CALIFORNIA: UC Davis food safety expert George York dies - (San Francisco Chronicle)
February 8, 2008 – 6:43 pmGeorge K. York II, one of California’s pioneering food safety experts and a longtime professor at UC Davis, has, according to this story, died after a brief illness.
Professor York was 82 when he died Jan. 30 in Davis.
He lived just two blocks from where he had studied and taught for 55 years, according to his son, George York III of Fiddletown (Amador County).
Food-borne infections, especially botulism, and the bacteriological problems of wastewater from food processors and slaughterhouses were Professor York’s areas of expertise. After graduating, he pitched in baseball’s minor leagues before heading to UC Davis to earn a doctorate in 1960. He never left UC Davis, doing most of his work with UC’s Cooperative Extension.
During his career, Professor York investigated outbreaks of the deadly food toxin botulism in California, helped pioneering Sonoma wineries handle problems with contaminated wastewater, and taught many Californians how to cure olives and can tomatoes […]
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