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FSIS, FDA leadership does yearly lounge act before IAFP

By Dan Flynn on July 11, 2017

TAMPA, FL — Stephen Ostroff, deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Monday admitted to felling a little anxious about data showing the incidence of foodborne illnesses is not going down and, for some pathogens, is on the increase.…

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Top food safety regulators say D.C. transition going smoothly

By Dan Flynn on May 12, 2017

CHICAGO — America’s top cops in food safety gathered for a “Town Hall” Thursday morning at the 2017 Food Safety Summit. They let the attendees know that if they were worried about the transition in government, they can forget about it.

From the states’ perspective, the Association of Food and…
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Letter From The Editor: The transition is underway

By Dan Flynn on June 5, 2016

When this month of June ends, there will be just 200 days to go until Barack Obama is no longer president of the United States. Nobody has yet paid it much attention, but we are already in a transition period between this administration and the next one. We’d like to…
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FDA’s Mike Taylor departing agency — totally on his own terms

By Dan Flynn on March 9, 2016

Mike Taylor has chosen the time and day for his departure for a second time from government. His friends and associates received his personal email at 8:35 a.m. Tuesday. It was embargoed until FDA released the news two hours later, marking “on or about” June 1 as his departure date.
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