The last year has been one of change. We have a new administration, which includes a new acting undersecretary for food safety and a new acting administrator. There was an atypical Mad Cow Disease finding in Alabama, while the West burns and the southeastern U.S. experiences flooding. The lean finely textured beef case was settled, Whole Foods was gobbled up by Amazon and USDA under secretary Al Almanza spoke about the need for Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point Based Inspection Models (HIMP) in beef.