The best sign that post-pandemic normalcy is back at USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is that everybody is again getting their meeting times.
That means that Dr. Emilio Esteban, USDA’s Under Secretary for Food Safety, is again rounding up top FSIS personnel like Administrator Paul Kiecker and his deputy
Continue Reading Food Safety and Inspection Service leadership meets with public, industry representatives
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is out with its ” key achievements” for 2023 that protected public health through food safety and strengthened the food supply chain.
“USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is focused on protecting the American public, and in 2023
Continue Reading FSIS highlights 2023 accomplishments in work to protect public health
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Most of us think that the lyrics of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” is where “Naughty or Nice” lists originated. Truth is “Naughty or Nice” pre-dates the popular 1934 Christmas song that is played a million times every year.
Nice is the older of the two.
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It took at least two months longer than it should have, but the Senate has finally confirmed, by voice vote, Dr. Jose Emilio Esteban as USDA’s Under Secretary for Food Safety.
Esteban was confirmed on the Senate last day of business before the 177th Congress expires.
The action drew immediate
Continue Reading On its last day, Senate confirms Esteban as nation’s 6th Under Secretary for Food Safety
It’s been six months since the White House announced President Biden was appointing Dr. Jose Emilio Esteban to serve as USDA’s Undersecretary for Food Safety, and nothing more has happened.
By protocol, the undersecretary is the top food safety post in the federal government. But that has not made any
Continue Reading Committee’s disinterest in food safety may be reason for delaying confirmation
Rural quality of life is the latest esoteric subject getting a hearing out of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Foresty, which also has had time to recommend that the complete Senate confirm four new Commodity Futures Trading Commissioners.
It’s not new that the business of agriculture takes precedence
Continue Reading Food safety nominee still waiting for his hearing before Senate committee
Dr. Robert M. Califf was the Commissioner of Food and Drugs for almost a year until Jan. 20, 2017, when the new Republican administration took over.
But to again be FDA Commissioner, Califf must get help from Republican senators because some Democrats are abandoning Califf in large enough numbers to
Continue Reading Senate confirmation vote for Califf as FDA Commissioner no longer a slam dunk
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Editor’s Note: We try to frame 10 of the most important happenings every year, but it’s not just about the “Top Ten Stories.” That is because what is essential is rarely about just one story — framing what marks an entire year almost always involves more than
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