The Revolving Door: FDA and the
Monsanto Company
Feb 11, 2013
According to the United States Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), its responsibilities include “[p]rotecting the public health by
assuring that foods are safe, wholesome, sanitary and properly labeled.” This
responsibility entails regulating a large number of companies producing this
nation’s food, making appointments to the high-level positions within the
agency very important.
Most high-level FDA employees have
a background in either medicine or law, but one of the largest private-sector
sources is the Monsanto Company. Over the past decades, at least seven
high-ranking employees in the FDA have an employment history with the Monsanto Company.
Connections have led many to speculate
whether any conflicts of interest exist within this revolving door between the
big food companies and the department charged with regulating them.
At the forefront of this
controversy is Michael R. Taylor,
currently the deputy commissioner of the Office of Foods. He was also the
deputy commissioner for Policy within the FDA in the mid ’90s. However, between
that position and his current FDA position, Mr. Taylor was employed by Monsanto
as Vice President of Public Policy.
United
States Food and Drug
Administration (FDA)
Michael R. Taylor
is the deputy commissioner for foods at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and was the VP for public
policy at the Monsanto Company.
Note: Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for the Monsanto Company.
James F. Collins
was a senior advisor for Akin, Gump,
Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, and is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank).
Donald
Kennedy was a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and a commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Margaret A.
Hamburg is the VP for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), and the commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director
at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think
tank), the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The
investigation into the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the
plans for population control by involving the United States in war)
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), and the Brookings Institution (think
tank).
George
Soros is the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Mark B. McClellan
was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a
commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA).
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory
Please note: This link for the
members of the Commercial Club of Chicago can no longer be found.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP was the lobby firm for Monsanto
Company.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, an
honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a senior
counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer
& Feld, LLP, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for the Monsanto Company.
Michael R. Taylor
was the VP for public policy at the Monsanto
Company, and is the deputy commissioner for foods for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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