Paul Kiecker

FSIS Administrator Justin Ransom takes over amid changing budget strategies

After 10 years as the top boss at USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), Al Almanza stepped down in 2017. In the eight years since then, an administrator

By Dan Flynn

/ 11 Jul 2025

FSIS Administrator Justin Ransom takes over amid changing budget strategies

Who is minding the store at USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service and OFS?

Dr. Denise Eblen, who holds a doctorate in food safety microbiology from the University of Ulster at Jordanstown, is the top executive at the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection

By Dan Flynn

/ 19 May 2025

Who is minding the store at USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service and OFS?

PETA campaigning for criminal prosecution of packing plant in petition

PETA has filed new comments to an old petition to USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, seeking to have more criminal charges filed against a business previously found to

By Dan Flynn

/ 14 Feb 2023

PETA campaigning for criminal prosecution of packing plant in petition

USDA gets employee safety training and OSHA gets access to food facilities under new MOU

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) renewed a cooperative agreement with a formal signing on Aug.

By News Desk

/ 11 Aug 2022

USDA gets employee safety training and OSHA gets access to food facilities under new MOU

First signs that the executives may remove FSIS from remote controls

It costs the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) more than $1 billion a year for close to 10,000 inspectors to provide their services at more than

By Dan Flynn

/ 20 May 2022

First signs that the executives may remove FSIS from remote controls

25 years later FSIS final rule on pathogen reduction still making a difference

Contributed This year marks 25 years since FSIS issued its landmark final rule, “Pathogen Reduction/Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (PR/HACCP),” issued in the summer of 1996. “Food

By U.S. Department of Agriculture

/ 23 Aug 2021

25 years later FSIS final rule on pathogen reduction still making a difference

How the food safety transition went, according to the public calendars

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

By Dan Flynn

/ 22 Apr 2021

How the food safety transition went, according to the public calendars

Marler renews call for declaring ‘outbreak serotypes’ of Salmonella as adulterants in meat and poultry

Food safety attorney Bill Marler wants to know what’s up with his petition calling on the USDA to declare specific “outbreak serotypes” of Salmonella as adulterants in meat. He

By Dan Flynn

/ 16 Mar 2021

Marler renews call for declaring ‘outbreak serotypes’ of Salmonella as adulterants in meat and poultry

Federal food safety policy and personnel changes underway at FSIS, FDA, and CDC

Changes in federal food safety policy and personnel are occurring with the new Biden Administration — officials are talking about some, but not others. They left it to Sara Amundson, president

By Dan Flynn

/ 26 Jan 2021

Federal food safety policy and personnel changes underway at FSIS, FDA, and CDC

New FSIS boss moves from one telephonic ring to another

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

By Dan Flynn

/ 16 Dec 2020

New FSIS boss moves from one telephonic ring to another

Leaders speak about how their agencies have responded in the wake of the pandemic

ROSEMONT, IL — Yesterday’s Food Safety Summit’s annual Town Hall Q&A featured top regulators and agency leaders from FDA, USDA, AFDO and CDC. They talked about their

By Jonan Pilet

/ 22 Oct 2020

Leaders speak about how their agencies have responded in the wake of the pandemic

Letter from the Editor: Kiecker speaks out after rising to the top as FSIS Administrator

Opinion The Meat & Poultry Daily News recently did a question and answer session with Paul Kiecker, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service Administrator since last March 12. It’

By Dan Flynn

/ 23 Sep 2020

Letter from the Editor: Kiecker speaks out after rising to the top as FSIS Administrator

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Paul Kiecker

FSIS Administrator Justin Ransom takes over amid changing budget strategies

Who is minding the store at USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service and OFS?

PETA campaigning for criminal prosecution of packing plant in petition

USDA gets employee safety training and OSHA gets access to food facilities under new MOU

First signs that the executives may remove FSIS from remote controls

25 years later FSIS final rule on pathogen reduction still making a difference

How the food safety transition went, according to the public calendars

Marler renews call for declaring ‘outbreak serotypes’ of Salmonella as adulterants in meat and poultry

Federal food safety policy and personnel changes underway at FSIS, FDA, and CDC

New FSIS boss moves from one telephonic ring to another

Leaders speak about how their agencies have responded in the wake of the pandemic

Letter from the Editor: Kiecker speaks out after rising to the top as FSIS Administrator

Your Support Protects Public Health