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New FSIS boss moves from one telephonic ring to another

By Dan Flynn on December 16, 2020

After eight months on the job as boss over USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service headquarters  (FSIS), Administrator Paul Kiecker likely is feeling like P.T. Barnum.

Kiecker’s meetings with people outside of the federal government…
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Food safety brass over summer were taking COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 calls

By Dan Flynn on August 30, 2020

Unlike the first 90 days or so of the coronavirus pandemic, not every outsider who made contact with USDA’s top Food Safety and Inspection Service executives in June wanted to talk about COVID-19. Nor was…
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At the start, Brashears finds Under Secretary for Food Safety job is all COVID-19 all the time

By Dan Flynn on July 22, 2020

The day after she was finally confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Mindy Brashears was back home in  Lubbock, TX, giving an Ag Appreciation Day speech to the local Chamber of Commerce.  After that, she’s found…
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Rottenberg’s last 6 months were busy, and were over before the storm

By Dan Flynn on May 19, 2020

In March, when Mindy M. Brashears became the fifth Senate-confirmed USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety and Paul Kiecker moved up to be theUSDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service Administrator, it’s likely neither could have…
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USDA’s food safety triumvirate had a lot of visitors this past year

By Dan Flynn on January 15, 2020

Each member of the triumvirate responsible for food safety at USDA brings something unique to the department’s leadership. Deputy Under Secretary Mindy Brashears is a top food scientist. FSIS Administrator Carmen Rottenberg is an experienced…
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No summer slow down for those with agendas for USDA food safety leaders

By Dan Flynn on August 29, 2019

Business establishments it regulates, foreign trade partners, and academic and educational organizations were among those outside the federal government who met with USDA’s food safety executives so far this summer.

The public calendar from the…
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USDA food safety official reports first meetings with people outside federal government

By Dan Flynn on April 30, 2019

Since Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue named Mindy Brashears Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety, the former Texas Tech University food safety professor is finding herself in demand.

Perdue named Brashears to the post on…
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Stakeholders and lobbyists leave tracks at FSIS during October

By Dan Flynn on December 11, 2018

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s top two food safety officials met ten times with stakeholders and lobbyists over 21 days in October, according to the recently issued public calendar from the Food Safety and Inspection…
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Hormel, Pilgrim’s Pride, BPI provide reports to USDA’s brass

By News Desk on March 21, 2018

Hormel, Pilgrim’s Pride and Beef Products Inc. were three companies providing the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service with a personal update during February. A delegation from each company met with acting…
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USDA’s acting officials use face time to promote agency agenda

By Dan Flynn on February 20, 2018

Meeting with people outside the federal government usually means hearing about somebody’s else’s agenda, but USDA’s top food safety officials apparently think it can be a two-way street.

During this past December and January, Carmen…
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