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Dr, Jose Emilio Esteban left office 100 days ago. He was for two years and one month USDA’s Under Secretary for Food Safety. The office is currently vacant awaiting a new Presidential appointee and U.S. Senate confirmation.
How did that go last time? It was 701
Continue Reading Letter From the Editor: Transition gap hurts food safety
Getting a Presidential appointment and Senate confirmation turned out to be no easy task for Jose Emilio Esteban, the new Undersecretary for Food Safety. Yet he’s turned in his first couple of months on the job with apparent ease.
Between the time Esteban’s predecessor, Mindy Brashears, exited the USDA building
Continue Reading Here’s what Esteban is up to now that he is finally in USDA’s top food safety job
Dr. Robert M. Califf was the Commissioner of Food and Drugs for almost a year until Jan. 20, 2017, when the new Republican administration took over.
But to again be FDA Commissioner, Califf must get help from Republican senators because some Democrats are abandoning Califf in large enough numbers to
Continue Reading Senate confirmation vote for Califf as FDA Commissioner no longer a slam dunk
President Biden put a key leader at USDA with the March 16 appointment of Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety Sandra Eskin. And while she has been effective right out of the box, Eskin is not, at least not yet, the president’s appointee and Senate-confirmed USDA Under Secretary for Food
Continue Reading No nominee for top food safety job, but deputy digs into the issues
The transition is our quadrennial gift for the National Capital Region’s real estate market because lot’s of moves are made.
The Biden Administration has about 4,000 jobs to fill, and about 1,250 of those are political appointments that require U.S. Senate confirmation. The Washington Post and the Partnership for
Continue Reading Letter from The Editor: A modest proposal for a better transition
Last week was a big one for Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue. The U.S. Senate heard his testimony and groups visiting Washington D.C., like the state agriculture directors, listened to his every word he had for them.
In case you have not noticed, the Secretary of Agriculture over time
Continue Reading Letter From The Editor: “All Hail Jay!”
The U.S. Senate hasn’t scheduled her confirmation hearing yet. A local radio disc jockey has called her a “pink slime denier.” But, nothing really terrible has happened to Mindy Brashears in the past month.
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Since May 10,
Continue Reading Inbox fills while Senate drags out confirmation for Breshears
Ten Democrats who are members of the Congressional Food Safety Caucus are asking President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue to get someone named as USDA’s Under Secretary for Food Safety.
In April 2017 Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, left, sat at the right
Continue Reading Food Safety Caucus urges Trump to name Under Secretary
UPDATED: So far, so good. Secretary Perdue has named, on a temporary basis, two USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) career employees to the top jobs. Paul Kiecker is acting FSIS administrator and Carmen Rottenberg is acting deputy undersecretary for food safety.
A couple days ago we ran Al
Continue Reading Letter From The Editor: Fill USDA’s top food safety posts now
The pairing of Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue with Michael Doyle as USDA’s undersecretary for food safety might seem like a natural.
Perdue is a former Georgia governor and Doyle is the University of Georgia’s Regents Professor of Food Microbiology. Doyle recently stepped down as the head of UGA’s Center
Continue Reading Raymond to Perdue: Top food safety candidate is in your backyard
