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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Catfish was on the menu for meetings with top USDA food safety officials
Carmen Rottenberg and Paul Kiecker, USDA’s top food safety executives, met last Sept. 4 with Corey Rosenbusch and Lowell Randel of the Global Cold Chain Alliance about export issues.
Rosenbusch and Randel’s
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The leadership burden at FSIS gives Senate another reason to take action
Although her appointment is stalled in the U.S. Senate with hundreds of others, the nomination of Mindy Brashears as the next U.S. Under Secretary for Food Safety puts a real face on the long-time vacancy.
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Letter From The Editor: Just a chat with the new administrator
During last week’s IAFP meetings in Salt Lake City, I had the opportunity to chat with FSIS Administrator Carmen Rottenberg, who is also serving as USDA’s Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety.
I did
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Hormel, Pilgrim’s Pride, BPI provide reports to USDA’s brass
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
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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Consumer and industry representatives meeting with FSIS
The USDA’s top food safety officials are for the first time making public the names of consumer and industry representatives they meet with during separate monthly meetings.
The meetings on Nov. 14 included Carmen Rottenberg,
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Codex transfer was not held up for lack of talk about it
In most months, industry and consumer representatives, each get one meeting with USDA’s top brass at the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
But in September, acting FSIS Administrator Paul Kiecker and temporary Deputy Under
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USDA’s temporary food safety administrators are in demand
If Carmen Rottenberg and Paul Kiecker are feeling just a bit like Lucy and Charlie Brown, it’s understandable.
During the first month of holding down USDA’s top two food safety jobs on an acting basis,
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