Timothy Paul Boltz

Temple, J., Blythe, J. M., Boltz, T., Twist, J. N., Hansen, R., Giorgi, A. J., Ashwell, C. M., Shen, C. 2026. Validating the Willing–Ready–Able (WRA) Framework to Measure Food Safety Engagement Among FSMA-Exempt Produce Growers in West Virginia. Journal of Food Protection 89(3).

Temple, J., Boltz, T., Blythe, J. M., Ashwell, C. M., Shen, C. 2025. Food Safety Practices Among Small-Scale Produce Growers Exempt from Federal Regulations: A Systematic Literature Review. Journal of Food Protection 88(12).

Carroll , M., Wamsley, K. G., Acharya Adhikari, P., Shen, C., Boltz, T. 2025. Modeling thermal inactivation of non-pathogenic and avian-pathogenic Escherichia coli in broiler mash feed using a lab-based circulating water bath . Journal of Applied Poultry Research 34(4).

Temple, J., Blythe, J. M., Boltz, T., Giorgi, A. J., Ashwell, C. M., Shen, C. 2025. Development and Validation of a Novel Classification Framework for Voluntary Food Safety Adoption Among Small-Scale Produce Growers: A Pilot Study. Journal of Food Protection 88(11).

Rion, M. I., Coe, C., Katz, J., Freshour, G., Long, C., Matak, K., Freshour, A., Jaczynski, J., Boltz, T., Shen, C. 2025. Fate of Salmonella Typhimurium, Listeria monocytogenes, and Surrogates on butternut squash during aerobic storage. LWT - Food Science and Technology 233.

Coe, C., Wang, X., Rowen, E., Stearns, R., Katz, J., Boltz, T., Rion, M., Long, C., Freshour, G., Jaczynski, J., Matak, K., Freshour, A., Luo, Y., Shen, C. 2025. Applying microbial predictive and machine learning model data to evaluate thermal inactivation of salmonella and the surrogate enterococcus faecium in reconstructed ground chicken meat affected by temperature and salt concentrations. Poultry Science 104(9).

Ayres , V., Boltz, T., Bowen , K., Grushecky , S., Wang, J., Moritz, J. 2025. Applied research note: Heating system and feed additive effects on foot pad quality, broiler performance, and immune status. Journal of Applied Poultry Research 34(3).

Coe, C., Boltz, T., Rowen, E., Moritz , J., Freshour, G., Rion, M., Long, C., Knarr, L., Bowen, K., Jaczynski, J., Matak, K., Freshour, A., Shen , C. 2025. Thermal Inactivation of Salmonella Surrogate, Enterococcus faecium, in Mash Broiler Feed Pelleted in A University Pilot Feed Mill . Poultry Science 104(5).

Rion, M. I., Coe, C., Katz, J., Freshour, G., Long, C., Matak, K., Freshour, A., Jaczynski, J., Boltz, T., Tang, X., Shen, C. 2025. Survival of Salmonella Typhimurium, Listeria monocytogenes, and their surrogates on cantaloupes after triple-washing with peroxyacetic acid. LWT - Food Science and Technology 224.

Rion, M., Coe, C., Katz, J., Freshour, G., Long, C., Matak, K., Freshour, A., Jaczynski, J., Boltz, T., Tang, X., Shen, C. 2025. Survival of Salmonella Typhimurium, Listeria monocytogenes, and their surrogates on cantaloupes after triple-washing with peroxyacetic acid. LWT - Food Science and Technology

Stearns, R., Jiang, W., Tou, J., Matak, K., Freshour, A., Boltz, T., Jaczynski, J., Shen, C. 2025. A Preliminary Pilot West Virginia Farmers’ Market Survey of Very Small Produce Growers' Knowledge of Microbial Contamination and Their Perception of the Triple- Wash Method. Food Protection Trends 45:42-57.

Isah, A. S., Ramachandran, R., Sukumaran, A. T., Kiess, A. S., Casta\~neda, Claudia D, ., Boltz, T., Macklin, K., Abdelhamed, H., Zhang, L. 2024. Construction and characterization of bioluminescent Salmonella Reading outbreak and non-outbreak strains. Microbiology Spectrum

Isah, A. S., Ramachandran, R., Sukumaran, A. T., Kiess, A. S., Casta\~neda, Claudia D, ., Boltz, T., Macklin, K., Abdelhamed, H., Zhang, L. 2024. Research Note: Evaluating the vertical transmission potential of Salmonella Reading in broiler breeders. Poultry Science 103(12):104351.

Obe, T., Boltz, T., Kogut, M., Ricke, S., Brooks, L., Macklin, K., Peterson, A. 2023. Controlling Salmonella: strategies for feed, the farm, and the processing plant. Poultry Science

Lynch, E., Bowen, K., Ayres, V., Boltz, T., Wamsley, K. G., Boney, J., Moritz, J. 2023. Hygienic pelleting can decrease Hubbard × Ross 708 apparent ileal amino acid digestibility, broiler performance, and increase digestible amino acid requirement. Journal of Applied Poultry Research 32(3).

Boltz, T. P., Ferrel, J., Castro, F., Bickmore , B., Bowen , K., Lynch , E., Ayres , V., Moritz, J. 2023. Improvement in production rate, milling efficiency, and pellet quality of broiler diets containing corn, soybean, and corn-derived distillers dried grains with solubles using separated fractions and whole particle inclusion of a dacitic tuff breccia (AZOMITE®). Journal of Applied Poultry Research 32.

Coe, C., Boltz, T., Stearns , R., Foster , P., Taylor , R., Moritz, J., Jaczynski, J., Freshour , A., Shen, C. 2022. Thermal inactivation of Salmonella Typhimurium and surrogate Enterococcus faecium in mash broiler feed in a laboratory scale circulated thermal bath. Poultry Science 101.