FSIS, FDA, and CDC Announce Dates for Public Meetings to Measure Progress
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced this week a series of meetings to work on
Continue Reading Agencies to Hold Meetings on Food Safety Progress
Since President Obama made his pick to be Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture for Food Safety, top officials at USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) have not been meeting with many outsiders.
The President nominated Elisabeth Hagen, USDA’s chief medical officer, as the new Undersecretary for
Citing “extraordinary commitment” from the White House to improve the food safety system, 400 experts met in Washington, DC Wednesday to discuss the best tools for measuring progress on food safety.
The meeting was hosted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food
Continue Reading Mande: A ‘Watershed Moment’ for Food Safety
Jerold Mande, the Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety, told a University of Florida audience last week that as many as 80 percent of foodborne illnesses could be caused by agents other than the top 30 pathogens that are currently being tracked. These agents could be responsible for 70 percent
On the same day the American Meat Institute (AMI) sent a letter demanding a meeting with Jerold R. Mande, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety was meeting with Bruce Silverglade, Director of Legal Affairs for the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
Whether
When looking at a maze of federal agencies, be it the “intelligence community” or our nation’s food safety mechanism, it is easy to forget that it is the individuals that actually count. Multiple agencies housed across different departments are characteristics of both the intelligence and food safety bureaucracies. In every
Continue Reading The Seven Most Powerful In Federal Food Safety
