Taozhu Sun

Muscle Food Safety Specialist, Department of Food Science and Technology

taozhu@vt.edu

Dr. Taozhu Sun is a Muscle Food Safety Specialist with Virginia Tech’s Department of Food Science and Technology, based at the Virginia Seafood Agricultural Research and Extension Center (VSAREC) in Hampton, VA. Her extension and research programs focus on improving the understanding and application of food safety through education, training and technical guidance, helping industry partners produce safe, high-quality seafood and other muscle foods. Her work emphasizes microbial safety, regulatory compliance (HACCP, FSMA, sanitation) and the adoption of innovative technologies to address industry challenges.

Before joining VSAREC, Dr. Sun advanced her expertise in food safety and microbiology through doctoral and postdoctoral research at the University of Delaware. Her Ph.D. work explored fresh produce safety and surface interactions, developing novel methods to reduce bacterial contamination on complex surfaces. As a postdoctoral fellow, she collaborated on projects to develop and commercialize micro/nanobubble-based sanitation technologies for food, water and food-contact surfaces.

Since coming to Virginia Tech, Dr. Sun has contributed to projects enhancing microbial safety in seafood, aquaculture, dairy and cellular agriculture, and remains committed to supporting industry stakeholders through outreach, training, and applied food safety research.

Ph.D., Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware

B.S., Environmental Science, Heilongjiang University - Harbin, Heilongjiang

Taozhu Sun's publications on GoogleScholar
Sun, T. Retention and Removal Mechanisms of Bacterial Surrogates on/from Natural and Model Produce Surfaces, Doctoral dissertation, University of Delaware, 2019.
Sun, T.; Lazouskaya, V.; Jin, Y. Polydimethylsiloxane Replicas Efficacy for Simulating Fresh Produce Surfaces and Application in Mechanistic Study of Colloid Retention. Journal of Food Science. 2019, 84(3), 524-531.
Lazouskaya, V.; Sun, T.; Liu, L.; Wang, G. Jin, Y. Effect of Surface Properties on Colloid Retention on Natural and Surrogate Produce Surfaces. Journal of Food Science. 2016, 81(12), E2956-E2965
Zhang, F.; Sun, T.; Hou, G.; Yan, P.; Li, G. Poly [tetraaquadi-μ4-oxalato-lutetium(III)-potassium], Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online, 2011, E67.
Sun, T.; Lazouskaya, V.; Jin, Y. Mechanisms of Colloid Removal from Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Replica of Fresh Produce Surfaces. (In preparation)