A standing Committee for the Review of Food Safety and Defense Risk Assessments, Analyses and Data (working title Committee on the Use of Public Health Data in FSIS Food Safety Programs) will be formed to identify emerging issues related to risk-based food inspection and the work of USDA's FSIS that may be addressed by NRC and IOM studies. Studies will be undertaken by separately appointed ad hoc committees with the necessary expertise, to review specific data, risk assessments, vulnerability assessments, algorithms for using data to support risk-based food inspection, and other information of concern to FSIS. The ad hoc committees will prepare consensus reports that include the evaluation of the materials reviewed and detailed findings and recommendations.
The full standing committee will meet twice each year to review the performance of past studies; be briefed by agency liaisons about prospective study needs; identify emerging issues that the agency might wish to have addressed in a study; be briefed on new scientific methods or approaches relative to risk assessments or other issues of interest; and, discuss areas of expertise that should be added to or dropped from the standing committee. During the remainder of the year, the committee will operate by conference calls and email correspondence to discuss new studies, recommend the appropriate composition of study subcommittees, and conduct other business.
Committee roster
- Craig A. Reed, VA-MD Regional College of Veterinary Medicine
- Gary R. Acuff, Texas A&M University
- Douglas L. Archer, University of Florida
- Julie A. Caswell, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- LeAnn B. Chuboff, Food Marketing Institute
- Louis Anthony Cox, Jr., Cox Associates
- Roy Curtiss, III, (NAS), Arizona State University
- Sandra B. Eskin, Pew Charitable Trusts
- Kathleen A. Glass, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Lawrence Goodridge, Colorado State University
- Craig Hedberg, University of Minnesota
- Lee-Ann Jaykus, North Carolina State University
- Jeffery LeJeune, Ohio State University
- Thomas A. Louis, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Jianhong Meng, University of Maryland
- Greg M. Paoli, Risk Sciences International
- Steven C. Ricke, University of Arkansas
- William H. Ross, Health Canada
- Juliana M. Ruzante, The Pew Health Group, The Pew Charitable Trusts
- Donald Schaffner, Rutgers University
- John N. Sofos, Colorado State University
- William H. Sperber, Cargill, Inc.
- Robert Tauxe, Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- Christopher A. Waldrop, Consumer Federation of America
- Martin Wiedmann, Cornell University
Chair
Members
Committee member bios* (PDF)
Meeting 5 September 22 & 23, 2011
- Meeting 5 Agenda (PDF)
- Meeting 5 Recap (PDF)
Meeting four agenda December 13 & 14, 2010 (PDF)
Meeting three agenda April 15 & 16, 2010 (PDF)
Meeting two agenda June 3, 2009 (PDF)
Meeting one agenda November 6, 2008 (PDF)
*Committee member information updated July 1, 2011.