The 2023 Food Safety Summit Town Hall session, which took place on Thursday morning, centered on a conversation with top food industry regulators and advisory groups about the key issues, updates, and initiatives happening within their organizations.
The panelists included Donald A. Prater, D.V.M., Acting Director of the Office of Food Policy and Response (OFPR) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Sandra Eskin, Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA); Steven Mandernach, Executive Director of the Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO), and Robert Tauxe, M.D., M.P.H., Director of the Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases (DFWED), the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), and the office of the Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases (DDID) at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The session was moderated by Gillian Kelleher, CEO of Kelleher Consultants LLC and Chair of the Food Safety Summit Educational Advisory Board.