USDA gets new food safety head
December 19, 2013, 05:44 pm
By Julian Hattem
The former deputy for food safety
at the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA) has been promoted.
Brian Ronholm has been named the
acting undersecretary for food safety, The Hill has confirmed, making him the
top-ranking food safety official in the country. He replaces Elisabeth Hagen, who left for an
advisory post with the consulting firm Deloitte
this month.
President Obama has yet to name a
permanent successor to the position.
The appointment was first reported
by Food Safety News earlier on Thursday.
Ronholm has been in the post since
Monday.
He started as deputy
undersecretary in 2011, after working for Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) on
agriculture appropriations issues. DeLauro was the former chairwoman of the
House subcommittee responsible for USDA funding and has long been vocal about
food safety.
As acting head of food safety at
the USDA, Ronholm will oversee the Food Safety and Inspection Service, which
regulates most meat and poultry and some egg products.
Hagen served in the post since 2010, during which time she
oversaw a range of efforts to strengthen the country’s food safety rules. Among
those were draft regulations requiring mandatory labeling of mechanically
tenderized meat and a proposed overhaul of poultry plants inspections.
Ronholm and whomever the president
nominates to permanently fill the slot will be tasked with completing work on
those regulations, as well as a host of other efforts to combat E. Coli,
salmonella and other food-borne bacteria.
In coming months, the USDA’s food
safety agency is planning to release draft regulations defining when meat and
poultry products can be labeled as “natural” and addressing a number of trade
issues.
U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Elisabeth Hagen
is the under secretary for the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA), and a consultant
for Deloitte.
Note: Deloitte LLP was
a funder for the Center for American
Progress.
Charles F. Wald
is a senior adviser for Deloitte LLP,
and a director at the Atlantic Council
of the United States
(think tank).
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American Progress, the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), and the American Constitution Society.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and was a supporter for the Center for American Progress.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
Ramona E. Romero
was a director at the American
Constitution Society, and is the general counsel for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Daniel R.
Glickman is a director, Congressional Program for the Aspen Institute (think tank), was the secretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and a senior
adviser at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer
& Feld, LLP.
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP was a funder for the Center for American Progress.
J. David Carlin
is a partner at Akin, Gump, Strauss,
Hauer & Feld, LLP, and was the assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is a senior
counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer
& Feld, LLP, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), a Valerie B. Jarrett’s
great uncle, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
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