USDA Office of Food Safety/FSIS Officials' Calendar of Meetings, March 2012

This public calendar is issued by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). It lists meetings held by the Under Secretary and Deputy Under Secretary, Office of Food Safety (OFS) and the Administrator and Deputy Administrator for FSIS with persons outside the Federal Government.

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OFS/FSIS Official and Title	Date & Site	Other FSIS/OFS Participants	Non-FSIS/OFS Participants	Subject
Officials' Calendar of Meetings, March 2012
Al Almanza, Administrator; Philip Derfler, Deputy Administrator	Mar 1, 2012 Washington, DC	FSIS Management Council	Various Industry Representatives	FSIS Monthly Consumer Meeting
Al Almanza, Administrator; Philip Derfler, Deputy Administrator	Mar 2, 2012 Washington, DC		Hilary Thesmar, FMI	Food Safety
Elisabeth A. Hagen, Under Secretary	Mar 5, 2012 Washington, DC	C. Cochran	AgriTalk	Interview—Background on Labels
Elisabeth A. Hagen, Under Secretary	Mar 7, 2012 Washington, DC	D. Fillpot	Tom Temin and Jared Serbu, Fed News Radio—WTOP	Interview—FSIS State Twitter Feeds
Elisabeth A. Hagen, Under Secretary	Mar 7, 2012 Washington, DC	D. Fillpot	Andrew Koch, WGMD Radio—Delaware	Interview—FSIS State Twitter Feeds
Elisabeth A. Hagen, Under Secretary	Mar 13, 2012 Baltimore, MD	C. Cochran	Fox 45	TV Interview—B’More Healthy and Go Green Expo
Elisabeth A. Hagen, Under Secretary	Mar 14, 2012 Washington, DC	K. Naessens N. Gaffney	Helena Bottemiller, Food Safety News	Interview—non-O157 STECs policy and poultry slaughter rule
Elisabeth A. Hagen, Under Secretary	Mar 14, 2012 Washington, DC	D. Fillpot	Dina ElBoghdady, Washington Post	Interview—non-O157 STECs
Elisabeth A. Hagen, Under Secretary; Al Almanza, Administrator	Mar 20, 2012 Washington, DC	C. Rottenberg	Barry Carpenter, NMA	Implementation of FSIS testing for non-O157 STECs
Brian E. Ronholm, Deputy Under Secretary	Mar 21, 2012 Washington, DC		Brian Foster, Insight Enterprise Consulting, LLC; Patt Lilly, Triumph Foods	Food Safety
Elisabeth A. Hagen, Under Secretary	Mar 22, 2012 Washington, DC	D. Fillpot	Dina ElBoghdady, Washington Post	Follow up Interview—non-O157 STECs
Al Almanza, Administrator	Mar 22, 2012 Washington, DC		D. Spellacy, Arrowsight	Remote Video Auditing
Elisabeth A. Hagen, Under Secretary; Brian E. Ronholm, Deputy Under Secretary	Mar 26, 2012 Washington, DC	A. Ramos K. Naessens C. Blake	A. MacMillan, USDA OSEC; Hilary Thesmar, Sue Borra, FMI	Lean Finely Textured Beef
Elisabeth A. Hagen, Under Secretary	Mar 28, 2012 Washington, DC	C. Cochran		Interview—Men's Health Magazine: Safe Grilling Tips
Elisabeth A. Hagen, Under Secretary; Brian E. Ronholm, Deputy Under Secretary	Mar 28, 2012 Washington, DC	K. Naessens	Brian Covington, Keystone Foods; Rickette Collins, Todd Bacon, Bo Bryant, McDonalds	General Food Safety Update
Al Almanza, Administrator	Mar 28, 2012 Washington, DC	C. Rottenberg, OA	A. Blunt, Kraft Foods; R. Russell, Russell Group	Food Safety
Brian E. Ronholm, Deputy Under Secretary	Mar 29, 2012 York, PA		About 300-400 Pennsylvania Agriculture Industries	134th PennAg Industries Association Annual Meeting—Food Safety Panel Discussion
Al Almanza, Administrator	Mar 30, 2012 Washington, DC	C. Rottenberg, OA; D. Goldman, OPHS	E. Dreyling, Roka Bioscience	Food Safety

Abbreviations:

OA—Office of the Administrator
ODIFP—Office of Data Integration and Food Protection
OFO—Office of Field Operations
OFS—Office of Food Safety, USDA
OIA—Office of International Affairs
OM—Office of Management
OPACE—Office of Public Affairs and Consumer Education
OPEER—Office of Program Evaluation, Enforcement and Review
OPHS—Office of Public Health Science
OPPD—Office of Policy and Program Development
PHIS—Public Health Information System
AMI—American Meat Institute
AMS—Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA
APHIS—Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA
BIFSCO—Beef Industry Food Safety Council
FFAS—Farm & Foreign Agricultural Services, USDA
FDA—U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FMI—Food Marketing Institute
HHS—U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
NAFV—National Association of Federal Veterinarians
NMA—National Meat Association
NRCS—Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA

Last Modified: June 12, 2012