Dr. Emilio Esteban is leaving the USDA to take a job with Mérieux NutriSciences as Chief Scientific Officer for its North America division and head of its Global Analytical Hub.
Registration and housing are now open for the International Association for Food Protection’s (IAFP) European Symposium on Food Safety, which is scheduled for May 6–8 at the Meliá
Dr. Sara Brenner has been named acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Brenner replaces Dr. Robert Califf.
The announcement was made quietly via an update made online to
On Jan. 20, Dr. Robert M. Califf bid farewell to his role as Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in a reflective post on X, formerly Twitter,
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Tough to fill the shoes of Mitzi Baum, but the STOP Board did just that. Sandra Eskin is now the CEO for STOP Foodborne Illness.
Eskin was appointed USDA
Recently Food Safety News reported the CDC declared a late summer outbreak of Listeria infections traced to Boar’s Head deli meats to be over.
We reported “The Centers for
The World Health Organization (WHO) is seeking comments related to experts selected to work on estimating the economic burden of foodborne infections.
WHO is currently updating global estimates on the
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro. D-CT, has sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration’s Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods Jim Jones urging him to increase public awareness of the
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has signed an agreement with Alveo Technologies to develop a handheld avian flu molecular diagnostic for humans that returns results in 30-45 minutes
RFK Jr., a lawyer-politician, could replace lawyer-politician Xavier Becerra as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Or RFK Jr could be the next Secretary of Agriculture, replacing Tom Vilsack, a
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If you care about food safety, then Jim Jones matters to you. A year into his tenure as Deputy Commissioner for the Human Foods Program, Jones has infused the
Effective mid-2025, Bonnie Fernandez-Fenaroli will step down from her position as executive director of the Center for Produce Safety.
Fernandez-Fenaroli has led the organization for 16 years. During her tenure,
