The American Meat Science Association (AMSA) announces that Dr. Jeff Sindelar, Associate Professor/Extension Meat Specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the recipient of the 2015 Distinguished Extension-Industry Service Award. The award was established in 1965 to recognize outstanding achievement in meat science extension and service to the industry and is sponsored by the North American Meat Institute Foundation (AMIF). Dr. Sindelar will be honored at an Awards banquet during the AMSA 68th Reciprocal Meat Conference on Tuesday, June 16, 2015, in Lincoln, NE.
As the only meat extension specialist in the state of Wisconsin, Dr. Jeff Sindelar has a lot of ground to cover in supporting about 375 state inspected processors and locker shops as well as larger federally inspected companies. Since joining the faculty at UW in early 2007 Jeff has done this with exceptional energy, skill and enthusiasm. His signature accomplishment in this short time has been the conception and development of the Wisconsin Master Meat Crafter Program, a meat processing certification program held at the University of Wisconsin Meat Science Laboratory. The program is the first of its kind, where after a two-year training period of six multiple-day workshops on specific topics and an in-plant special project, students can be accredited as a “Master Meat Crafter.”