The coronavirus pandemic has left some hating and some loving telephonic communications options like those Zoom calls. USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service’s recently released public calendars for May and June are pretty good evidence
Continue Reading Working the phone for food safety comes naturally to Eskin
Mindy Brashears, the fifth in history confirmed USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety, said goodbye to her consumer, government and industry stakeholders January 14.
Her political appointment as the federal government’s top food safety official
Continue Reading How the food safety transition went, according to the public calendars
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
Continue Reading New FSIS boss moves from one telephonic ring to another
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
Continue Reading Food safety brass over summer were taking COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 calls
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
Continue Reading At the start, Brashears finds Under Secretary for Food Safety job is all COVID-19 all the time
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
Continue Reading Rottenberg’s last 6 months were busy, and were over before the storm
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
Continue Reading USDA’s food safety triumvirate had a lot of visitors this past year
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
Continue Reading No summer slow down for those with agendas for USDA food safety leaders
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
Continue Reading USDA food safety official reports first meetings with people outside federal government
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
Continue Reading Stakeholders and lobbyists leave tracks at FSIS during October
