FSIS Remains Leaderless
It has been over a year since the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has had a Senate-confirmed Under Secretary of Food Safety–a reality that has left many in the food and agriculture world...
View ArticleNeeded: Undersecretary for Food Safety at USDA
Recently I wrote a guest blog for Meatingplace.com on the subject of our missing USDA Undersecretary for Food Safety and I’m pleased to expand on that just a bit. Over a year ago Dr. Richard Raymond...
View ArticleDeLauro Calls for FSIS Appointee
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service remains leaderless U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) responded to the Christmas Eve tenderized steak recall by calling out the Obama Administration for...
View ArticleIF We had an Undersecretary of Food Safety…
IF there was an undersecretary for food safety this is what they should be doing… 1. Tattoo on a body part that you use every day the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Mission Statement: The...
View ArticleObama Nominates FSIS Leader
The White House announced yesterday that President Obama intends to nominate Dr. Elisabeth Hagen as the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Under Secretary for Food Safety, a post charged with...
View ArticleConsumer, Industry Groups OK FSIS Pick
Consumer advocates and meat industry representatives responded to the Obama Administration’s announcement Tuesday, naming Dr. Elisabeth Hagen to be Under Secretary of Food Safety at the U.S. Department...
View ArticleMainstream Media Focuses on Food Safety
After months of newspapers, blogs, and food safety experts raising flags about the dilapidated food safety system, cable news has piped into the food safety discussion more than usual in 2010. Recent...
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FSIS Nominee Awaits Confirmation Hearings
Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, the President’s choice to be the next Under Secretary of Food Safety at the Department of Agriculture, Monday will begin her fourth month of waiting to be confirmed by the United...
View ArticleTop Career Job Filled At FSIS
Career service appointments in the federal government must go on even if the U.S. Senate has become a black hole for political appointments. At the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)–second only...
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Ag Committee to Consider USDA Food Safety Nominee
Today the Senate Agriculture Committee will take the first step in the confirmation process for Under Secretary for Food Safety, a post at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that has been vacant...
View ArticleNo Timeline for USDA Food Safety Nominee
Though the Senate Agriculture Committee recently held a hearing to consider Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, the Obama Administration’s nominee for Under Secretary for Food Safety at the U.S. Department of...
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Group Asks USDA, FDA to Move on Catfish
In another act of the ongoing catfish regulatory drama, the advocacy group Food and Water Watch sent a letter yesterday to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Secretary of Health Kathleen Sebelius...
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Lincoln Survives Heated Primary Runoff
Chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) defeated labor-backed Arkansas Lt. Governor Bill Halter in a heated Democratic primary runoff Tuesday, bucking the notion that...
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Top USDA Food Safety Nominee Clears Ag Committee
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) just might have an Under Secretary for Food Safety this grilling season. The Senate Agriculture Committee yesterday approved the nomination of Dr. Elisabeth...
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Letter From the Editor: A 10-Year Term
Dr. Elisabeth Hagen is departing government in mid-December, again leaving America without a Senate-confirmed under secretary for food safety. How common are these periods when USDA is without an under...
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USDA Names Acting Under Secretary for Food Safety
Food Safety News has learned that Brian Ronholm has been named acting under secretary for food safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Brian Ronholm joined USDA in April 2011 as deputy under...
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Letter From the Editor: A 10-Year Term is the Vacancy Solution
It has been almost two years since Dr. Elisabeth Hagen stepped down as our most recent USDA under secretary for food safety. President Obama has not appointed, nor has the Senate confirmed, anyone to...
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Top food safety job and others remain to be filled at USDA
With the somewhat tardy appointment of former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue as secretary of agriculture combined with Senate Democrats taking their time with the confirmation process, there’s going to be a...
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Raymond to Perdue: Top food safety candidate is in your backyard
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...
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Letter From The Editor: Fill USDA’s top food safety posts now
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...
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