The Wall Street Journal’s May 22 Health Forum at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington D.C. will feature 22 speakers, including several CEOs for big pharmacy and giant insurance companies.
But in a full-page advertisement,
Continue Reading Scott Gottlieb keeps FDA office hours while growing star power
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
Continue Reading Codex transfer was not held up for lack of talk about it
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,
Continue Reading USDA’s temporary food safety administrators are in demand
New FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb claims food and tobacco issues are taking up a majority of his time. Maybe so, but there’s nothing on his public calendar to prove it.
Drug approvals and the regulation
Continue Reading New commissioner says his time is going to food safety at FDA
The USDA’S Food Safety and Inspection Service Friday amended its Officials’ Calendar of Meetings for July 2017, showing Kenneth Petersen of the OSI Group as the last party outside the federal government to meet with
Continue Reading Updated: OSI was last meeting on Almanza’s FSIS calendar
James Marsden, top food safety official for Chipotle Mexican Grill, and Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, who joined the Denver-based burrito chain’s Food Safety Advisory Board in January, met on June 1 with top officials at USDA’s
Continue Reading Chipotle’s food safety officials recently visited Washington D.C.
While the Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price says we can expect the next Food and Drug Administrator commissioner to be named soon, significant meetings held by designated FDA policy makers with persons
Continue Reading Vacant positions are slowing things down at FDA and FSIS
The federal government’s transition month of January saw only a handful of meetings involving top food safety officials and members of the public.
Both the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and U.S. Food
Continue Reading January saw few outside meetings for top food safety officials
When his appointment as Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety comes to an end on Jan. 20, 2017, Al Almanza, who never gave up his career employee status, will just switch back to being Administrator
Continue Reading Almanza ends his deputy undersecretary appointment with plenty of meetings
Who spent time this summer with Al Almanza, USDA’s deputy under secretary for food safety and its acting administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service? Industry and union representatives, foreign dignitaries, a former boss,
Continue Reading Traffic through Almanza’s office didn’t slow in summer months
