Jessica Holthaus Badour

Jessica Holthaus Badour has built a successful and diversified career developing compelling means of sharing information while engaging the public on essential issues. She joined the Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO) in a new role in 2021 as the Workforce and Communications Coordinator. Ms. Badour spent the last decade with the Georgia Department of Agriculture’s (GDA’s) Food Safety Division, primarily as the state’s recall coordinator, working with the Georgia Food and Feed Rapid Response Team (RRT) Program. Ms. Badour is a key player in many local, regional, and national associations, including Co-chair for the Partnership for Food Protection’s Outreach Workgroup. She holds a B.A. degree from Hood College and originally hails from Hampton Bays, Long Island, New York.

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Recall Regulatory Partners' Efforts to Improve Integration Expands Nationwide

The 2022 Recall Integration Partnership Project expanded upon critical state and federal partnerships to improve response capabilities during recall events
Jessica Holthaus Badour

Amid the pandemic in 2020, federal and state recall coordinators and their leadership teams took a closer look at the existing regulatory recall response efforts in the state of Georgia, and where collaboration exists between the two agencies. After creating a pilot template project in 2021, the recall shadowing concept was expanded to a larger network. Feedback from 12 additional agencies in 2022 strengthened the project to enhance partner integration efforts, with the ultimate goal to better protect public health during recall events.



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Lighting the Pilot: Georgia Recall Partners Improve Integration Nationwide

Food recalls can be processed more efficiently when regulatory stakeholders collaborate at multiple levels
Jessica Holthaus Badour Pamela Ogonowski

When regulatory stakeholders effectively collaborate at the local, state, and federal levels and understand each other’s roles, resources, and authorities, food recalls can be processed more efficiently. This results in a more agile recall response down to the consumer level, benefitting everyone in the farm-to-fork continuum and potentially reducing additional exposures and illnesses.


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